Julie Lyles Carr

I keep telling myself that I need to do the twins’ 3-year-old ‘portraits’. As in, groomed hair, ironed outfits, beautiful backdrop, soft light.

When you hand over the camera to your 13 year old, he doesn’t feel honor-bound to have people pose in traditional ways… Particularly when a couple of eight year olds are his main photographic subjects…

Three years ago this week, we went from a family of six kids to a family of eight kids. And I gave up the luxury of sleeping for many, many months. I suppose it’s time for me to stop calling the twins ‘The Babies’. Well, maybe next year. After the twins were born, I began exploring the world of blogging…
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We are in the deep depths of Dance Competition Season. Hence my late post this morning. It’s exhausting to sit in a dark performing arts center for hours and hours and hours over a weekend.

(I’m delighted to be speaking this evening to a group of women about The Noble Court: Ladies in Waiting. I wrote a Selah last year on May 17, 2009, about waiting, that place suspended between indecision and action…I thought I’d repost it today as I meditate anew on waiting on the Lord…) I am still confident of this:        I will…
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