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Jamescapes // 14

Seriously? So good. Happy weekend, y’all! James and I are Maryland bound to pick up our newest family member. Expect many a photo next week.

Currently Reading

Yeah, it’s kinda like this:

I know you don’t want anyone to blow sunshine in your face, but I also don’t want to paint my parenting experience to be nothing but one poop-covered disaster after another. The problem is that anyone can easily describe the stressful things; the good things, on the other hand, are much more difficult to illustrate. Difficult only because they’re so deep and transcendent and immeasurable. I can tell you about the love, and the joy, and the beauty, but even those words fail to contain how I feel about my children. After all, I’ve used “love” when discussing my favorite steakhouse, and “joy” when talking about the Ravens winning the Superbowl last year, and I even said “that was a beauty” yesterday when I successfully banked a ball of paper off the wall and into the trashcan from halfway across the room. I’ve wasted all of these words on food and sports, and now I’m left with nothing in the English language that can even come close to communicating what it means to me to be a father.

For my fellow parents, you know this to be the truest thing in the Universe. But it’s worth the full read here.

Around the Farm // 19

A few favorite moments from around the farm this fall.

1. They compete for use of “Momar’s Towel,” a towel my mother gifted to James. Sometimes they settle with sharing.
2. Our neighbor’s barns give Ashley and James some props. Rad horses, indeed.
3. Cookie monster in full effect.
4. Oh hey, Edwina!
5. Tough life. Hammock swinging among the Vermont foliage.
6. The babies of the family don’t know what’ll hit them when our newest addition arrives tomorrow and overthrows their birth order.