Easter Three

For the sake of something.
You wouldn't know it to look at these pictures, but, though short, this was the most miserable picture session. By that, I mean that I was the Most Miserable Mama Bear ever. I've decided that I should just give up on trying to make three sweetlings sit still and SMILE, especially when the oldest and the youngest have been awake since five o'clock in the morning. I usually disagree with the practice of posing one's children like puppets just for the sake of getting a good picture, whether the end result looks candid and natural or formally posed (though I grudgingly admit that there are appropriate times, this day wasn't one of them).

Okay. Nine months from now, I'll probably forget this and try to take pictures of them in Christmas dresses...remind me.

So, three cheers to these three girls, who forgive me so readily for my failings. They act more Christlike in their simple forgiveness and forsaking of sin than I do with my eternal memory, and I would do well to wholly forgive others the way that they forgive me.

The first picture I took. Looks like fun, eh?


Here's the happy one when we began.


Here's what happened when I asked them to smile.



Here's the Enough's Enough one when I decided to put us out of our misery.


And here's where we ended. When I wasn't looking, Susannah was zapped with the Shrinking Ray. Poor thing.