Photo Challenge #3: Something You Adore

Adoration is a more than liking or enjoying...and while we could come up with a myriad of things that would fit the ideas of liking and enjoying, finding something that we adore posed a bit of a challenge.  Of course, there are people we adore.  Namely, our children and each other.  But we wanted to challenge ourselves a bit more than the fall-back of selecting a picture of our kids. So here we go...

Something You Adore - Betsy

Image Notes:  I picked jewelry.  OK, this may seem a little materialistic at first...but this jewelry honors the love that my children bring to my life and my partner in this adventure, my husband.  While I was pregnant for Hazel, I was paging through an issue of Real Simple magazine and toward the end there was an advertisement for a jewelry designer that created pressed, linked silver rings.  I could order the ring to have any word I want imprinted on it.  Marcus new how much I fell in love with the idea of this ring and bought it for me for Christmas that year...each ring imprinted with one of the kid's names.  It is perfect and I adore it. I think of it as another sort of wedding ring.  It is a symbol of my vow to be the best mom I can be to these three amazing little people...to take care of them, inspire them, support them, and love them always.  I wear it proudly...almost every day.  When I'm not wearing it, I'm usually wearing one of the rings that I've put in the background of this image.  When each of my children were born, Marcus gave me a ring to celebrate it and honor my having gone through such an incredible physical ordeal.  He gave me an amethyst when Violet was born, a garnet when Calvin was born, and a peridot when Hazel was born.  Each ring is so distinctive and perfectly represents the style of each child.  I have always felt very lucky that Marcus appreciated my pregnancies and deliveries in this way...so it seemed fitting to have these rings in the background.

Something You Adore - Marcus

Image Notes:  There is a beautiful moment during the still of the early morning that Marcus spends with Truffle  taking a romp in the yard.  The two of them go out there, usually when the kids and I are still groggy or sleeping in bed...and they play.  In the midst of our incredibly busy lives, he takes this time with her to play and watch her run.  He hurls this very large ball with a rope attached across the yard and she excitedly fetches it.  They do this for at least 20 minutes, until Truffle tires and just stops bringing it back to Marcus.  He captured this image toward the end of one of their playtimes.  He loved how the frost on the grass sparkled with the sunlight and how you can see Truffle's breath in the cold as she pants.