Weekend

He returned safely from Mexico bragging about the tacos; of course he did. As I worked three different events Saturday, he ran our home and that night we finally connected as a family. Our marriage sometimes looks like a truce over an on-going battle about the condition of recycling bins and other times it's simple memories made over a smoker and the first bonfire of the year. We like this season, both in relationship and weather.

Erin, ever reluctant to be in front of my camera finally conceded when I played a card I wouldn't normally. She lives here rent free. She claims to have worked her way through all the stages of grief and come to terms with her belated birthday photo shoot. So here she is, twenty-four, beautiful, sassy and hilarious. She is the same child who grounded herself as a teen after an error in judgment because we clearly didn't know how to parent. There are moments I am convinced she hasn't wavered in her opinion but she likes us and we like her so somewhere along the way, we managed to get something right.