Christiana Childers Photography Blog

I’m sorry to do this to you all again.  I have more photos of my breakfast.  Maybe there is a self-help group I could join.  But this one is special and I’ll try to explain why.  First, for Christmas I was given the first dozen eggs from my sister-in-law and brothers chickens.  For all the teasing I’ve giving them for having chickens, I loved this gift.  I mean, would you just look at how beautiful they are?!

Then I made a perfect soft boiled egg, toasted some Irish brown bread that I’ve been savoring since a recent delivery from Ireland and served it with homemade jam from our neighbors.  Wouldn’t you take a photo too?  Please tell me you would…

I feel a twinge of sadness as I say goodbye to summer like you do when you say goodbye to a good friend who you loved to have visit but didn’t get anything done while she was here.  So now we are back to the schedule of school which means that I get to go back to walking in the morning!  Yeah!  Lora and I go on a walk most mornings that, up until a few days ago, was laced with beautiful juicy blackberries.  Hmm, blackberry pie!

We also celebrated G’s birthday and I had to share this one with you because I thought it was a great idea and it was a big success!  Ben came up with this one, actually.  He suggested that we have all the girls over for breakfast on the morning of G’s birthday.  We gave prizes for the best bedhead.  Which is perfect for G because G regularly has THE most impressive bedhead you’ve ever seen.  Hands down, bar none.  I’ve started a photo collection dedicated to the record of her bedhead.  Here’s a recent one.

The girls really got into it and had a big time.  

They also decimated 3 pounds of bacon!

And last but not least!  We are now the proud owners of a new puppy!  We are over the moon with him.  His name is Blue.

Can you get over the cuteness!

Happy Fall!

I take pictures of my breakfast a lot.  It’s weird.  I’m not even a breakfast person but sometimes I make myself a good one and have to photograph it.  Maybe it’s because I don’t have to put a lot of effort into breakfast and that it’s just for me that brings on that urge to photograph…who knows.  Anyway, I made myself some scrambled eggs with Dubliner cheese (white cheddar…so good!) and fresh basil on the top.  PLUS cinnamon toast.  If it’s been awhile since you’ve had cinnamon toast, it’s worth revisiting….. its definitely under the things that make me happy category….

Treat yourself to a yummy breakfast today!

The older I get the more I realize how much my mother has rubbed off on me.  This weekend I was eating a grapefruit and the sun was coming in just so that it looked like my grapefruit was lit from within!  The color was so interesting.  I had to take a picture.  It reminded me of once when Mom was giving thanks over our meal of baked potatoes with toppings and said “Thank you Lord for greens and reds and yellow and orange and off white…” at this point we are all looking around at each other like “What the..” She was looking at all the colors on her plate and thanking God for them.  We, as teenagers, thought it was weird but of course now I appreciate that she notices things like that which has taught me to do the same.  So thank you Lord for grapefruit color which is neither orange or pink but some where in-between and calling it salmon doesn’t seem right…