{"id":30426,"date":"2013-05-21T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T01:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/?p=30426"},"modified":"2013-05-22T00:28:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T05:28:21","slug":"after-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/21\/after-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Storm…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whew\u2026 we are all so very sad and so very sorry for the people who lost everything this week; family, friends, pets, possessions, comfort\u2026 what do you even say?  How are these people going to rebuild absolutely everything\u2026 how do they even make sense of anything right now!?!  I saw a picture of a little girl riding her bike through the rubble, and it just tore me up!  Our lives on earth are so fragile and short.  Even a long full life, is but one little blink of the earth\u2019s eye (if the earth was a human, and it had eyes, the time we\u2019re here is just one blink of that human\u2019s eye in its life story).  I\u2019m fascinated with our purpose, our evolution\u2026 how in the last 100 years what progress we have made as humans, in comparison to our 200,000 years of existence here on earth.  Every generation builds on the next to try to figure things out, to be the best we can be\u2026 and during these times of devastation, it feels like the earth is just throwing us around, making us feel like tiny match sticks.  It\u2019s too much when you really sit down and think about it\u2026<\/p>\n

Another Mommy blogger wrote exactly what I was thinking in a way I couldn\u2019t articulate until I read her words, so I\u2019ll copy the relevant part of what she wrote for you to read: \u201cMy home has never faced major destruction. I can\u2019t imagine the grief that would be associated with losing all you own.  Before I knew the devastation these recent tornadoes would cause, I was sitting on the roof thinking a lot about the storms of life. I share happy pictures on my blog because photography is a gift in my life. When personal storms rage around me, there is something about photography that helps me find beauty. Helps me gain a healthy perspective. Right now you will see happy pictures of my kids playing on my blog because photography is healing to me, but my family is facing some personal storms.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is true for me\/us as well\u2026 it always has been\u2026 our happy times make my heart so full, but we are far from perfect, and at times, our lives are extremely difficult; you can\u2019t even imagine.  I have described our blog to friends in the past as \u201cmy happy place,\u201d and the pictures of my little ones truly put the storms into perspective and bring me so much peace!!!  People blog for different reasons.  Our blog (during this season of life) is simply a public online scrapbook.  From day to day, it looks much like what you would find in a traditional paper bound scrapbook\u2026 with just lots more pictures because it is online.  It\u2019s not a tell-all, but it\u2019s not meant to make you think our lives are perfect either.  It\u2019s simply the happy pictures of my kids playing because that is healing to me\u2026 and the only reason my blog is not private, is because I pray it gives you reprieve too, and makes you laugh and smile!  And then the heavier things in life are more bearable, do-able.  Because I believe little things add up to make a big difference.  Just like all of the volunteers in Oklahoma, picking up one piece of rubble at a time right now.  They will rebuild\u2026 we are resilient; humans are amazing.  The little building blocks of the past have all made a difference in the strides we have made to this day.  But we need each other to keep the pieces together.  I hope the pieces of our story that we share publicly with you on our online scrapbook add up in your life.  So, for now, I\u2019ll just keep on doing what helps me get through my storms\u2026 sharing pictures of our beautiful loves!<\/p>\n

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The Pond Girls, May 14, 2013, Rose (2), Anna Kate (4) and Noelle (7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whew\u2026 we are all so very sad and so very sorry for the people who lost everything this week; family, friends, pets, possessions, comfort\u2026 what do you even say?  How are these people going to rebuild absolutely everything\u2026 how do they even make sense of anything right now!?!  I saw a picture of a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30427,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30426\/revisions\/30427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}