i don't know how it is but this photo seems, already, like something that happened a lifetime ago. the room itself has seen three renovations. the girl in the booster seat turns thirteen this week. and the boy eating rice-mush in the baby seat now reads books to his little brother and is a star defenseman on his school's soccer team. and better than seven years ago, that cute little greenhouse on the radiator got shoveled into a garbage bag after getting maimed beyond repair. amazingly though, those country muffins sitting on the table which bella is eating are still a huge mainstay of our family diet.