The Merger

Ok, so I decided I can't do 2 blogs. I'm not a waffles kind of person. I'm a woman. I'm spaghetti. (It's a take on the whole women-are-from-venus-men-are-from-mars thing). I can't keep my "personal life" and my "professional life" in two separate boxes (like waffles have separate compartments). My life is all overlapping... like spaghetti.

I love taking photographs and I want to share them on my blog... but then I get confused about if I took them as a "job" or just for fun... and which blog do I put them on?

So I'm combining them both here: www.illuminatephotos.blogspot.com.

The Hackbarth Family blog and my Illuminate Photography blog UNITE! Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce GO!

Gift idea for Jonah

Text from ad:

Baby Mops: Make your children work for their keep

After the birth of a child there's always the temptation to say "Yes, it's cute, but what can it do?" Until recently the answer was simply "lie there and cry", but now babies can be put on the payroll, so to speak, almost as soon as they're born.

Just dress your young one in Baby Mops and set him or her down on any hard wood or tile floor that needs cleaning. You may at first need to get things started by calling to the infant from across the room, but pretty soon they'll be doing it all by themselves.

There's no child exploitation involved. The kid is doing what he does best anyway, crawling. But with Baby Mops he's also learning responsibility and a healthy work ethic.


See other un-useless inventions here.

"Photograph" by Michael Salerno

A very talented friend of ours from church wrote this poem for us when Jonah was born...


Photograph

You are our little photograph
A memory every day
A promise of the hope ahead
And dreams along the way

Black and white or full of hue
You fill us with your smile
A glossy image of ourselves
We'll stare for just a while

As you develop through the years
Our eyes will get to see
The masterpiece of hope and joy
A tiny mystery

We'd like to place you in a book
And keep you safe inside
But God will one day give you wings
And you'll be free to fly

More precious than a work of art
Our gift from God above
A glimpse of Faith to fill our lives
Our photograph of love

By: Michael Salerno


I don't have words to describe how much this poem means to me and it just becomes more touching and relevant every time I read it.