A few moments frozen in time from just about the most perfect few days ever.

While I carefully keep the margins of the kids’ lives wide and open, I’m not as good about giving myself the same protection. This week was a reminder that our adult-selves also need space around our responsibilities to remember who we are and to breathe deeply.

Ten years old. Holding her stuffed animal. On the precipice of jumping from 4th grade to 6th grade, and totally able to do so- but here, time stopped for moment, so much still a little girl, lost in her own thoughts.

As the kids say on Instagram, #nofilter.