SofiandNatalie.com

It’s been a very busy month – both with the children and on the site.  There have been a few recent posts and some graphical changes, and today I’m thrilled to announce a few long-overdue features.

• First, the site now includes a guestbook that can be added to through the instant “Leave a Note!” link on the left-side navigation menu.  Try it out – say hello and let us know what you think.
• Next, and probably most requested, the site now allows you to subscribe to the blog.  Subscribers will receive all new (and sorry sometimes infrequent) posts in their email.  Subscription and discontinuation are both very easy, so give it a try!  This can also be found in the left-side menu.
• Finally, I’ve added a ShareThis to the site which will allow readers to share SofiandNatalie.com posts through a variety of social media sites.  The obvious are included – Facebook for mama – and of course Digg, but through the integration of ShareThis some of the less common are there, too, to help anyone that wants to pass on our message.

Look for more posts soon!  The halloween costumes have been selected and we’re getting ready!

Papa

I started reminiscing the other day about how quickly the girls are growing up.  It seems like every day they’re into something new, a little taller, or talking about what they did so many years ago.  Looking through our pictures – we have slightly over 27,000 in the last four and a half years – brought tears to my eyes from laughter and joy.  Seeing their faces and remembering is an amazing experience and one that I hope to relive over and over again.  Here, and in their gallery, I am sharing these photos for you in hopes that you will also get some of the joy and laughter from your own experience with these kids.

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The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.  The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.  ~Frank Pittman, Man Enough

Summer is over; we’re coming into fall.  It’s easy to see everywhere you look.  The weather is changing; stores are putting out their holiday wares and advertising is making the inevitble swing to push us to shop. For me though, it’s all a reminder that another year is nearly over, and my children are getting older.  Every day when I leave in the morning I wonder what will have changed between the morning and when I get home, and every day I’m amazed by how much it seems I’ve missed.  My babies are growig up, learning, and perhaps what I fear most, yearning for their independence (all while still wanting a hug and a kiss.)

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