Capturing the Moments

by Melissa @ The Inspired Room on April 17, 2009

Flickr: lepiaf.geo

Part of finding beauty in life is savoring the little moments. A lot of life is stressful, busy, hardwork, often forgettable and quite unremarkable. And, many days are downright painful and difficult.

That is what is so sacred about beautiful moments. They come and go so quickly we can miss their significance. We might be looking for something bigger and more dramatic and miss the beauty of what was right in front of us all along.

Ever since my children were first born, I have made a habit out of capturing little photos in my mind of the moments I wanted to treasure.

Sweet eyelashes fluttering over big blue eyes {remember those eyes so beautiful and innocent}
Chubby cheeks covered in sweet potatoes {linger on that baby face to remember it always!}.
Hugs by soft dimpled baby arms {don’t forget this feeling!}.
Singing soft lullabies to a sleepy boy {remember how precious he is!}
Two sisters laughing in the backseat of the car {I love their laughter, don’t forget how it sounded!}.
A little brother running to hug big sisters {my heart is full, remember this moment forever!}
Kids blowing bubbles on the porch {savor the sweetness, will this be the last time they blow bubbles?}

I had my parents over to our house at Easter. My middle daughter was looking through photos to find ones to put in her senior class slide show. “Remember this mom?,” she’d call over to me. Pretty soon we had all gathered around and savored the memories we had captured in pictures.

We laughed, we cried, we remembered and we shared the little things, the seemingly small moments that could be so easily forgotten if we haven’t captured them in our hearts — and fortunately, in pictures.

Capturing and treasuring those memories is what a joy-filled and beautiful life is about…it isn’t living the perfect life, or having life go exactly like we’d hope all the time, but it is living a life where we recognize what is precious when we see it.

I have a great SURPRISE! giveaway today to help you in your endeavor to capture and share those memories! Kodak is giving away this wonderful prize, one Kodak Easyshare Digital Frame, to a reader of The Inspired Room!

KODAK EASYSHARE W1020 Wireless Digital Frames with Home Decor Kit — $269.95

These wireless frames come with a home decor kit that allows it to easily fit into any home aesthetic! With capabilities that include wireless access to stream photos from kodakgallery and flickr, to getting updates on news, weather and sports, this frame has it all with the ease of the KODAK QuickTouch Border.

The best part is, because of Kodak technology you can automatically send and receive pictures from KODAK Gallery members right on your frame with the Picture Mail feature so that you are constantly connected. To learn more visit Kodak!

Just leave a comment here to be entered. If you share a beautiful life post on today’s Mr. Linky and link back to this post, (you can do this any time over the weekend or before the contest ends), you’ll get a second entry! Put this link on twitter and share the tweet here for another entry! This giveaway is now closed

What special moments did you capture this week?
How did you find or create something beautiful?

Share with us in the comments or via a link on Mr. Linky! Remember, all Mr. Linky links MUST BE TO A SPECIFIC POST RELEVANT TO A BEAUTIFUL LIFE. No home page links or it confuses me and I have to delete!

PS. Emily at Chatting at the Sky is celebrating beautiful ordinary moments on Tuesdays with her “Unwrapped Posts!” I’m linking up!

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Tagged as: beautiful life, Kodak, memories, photos

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1 Sharon April 18, 2009 at 7:04 am: What a great give-away!! Would LOVE this! I can never have enough pictures of my loved ones!
2 Damaria Senne April 18, 2009 at 7:59 am: I love your blog. It is inspirational and has given me a number of ideas for my own house ( which needs a lot of work).
3 Gennaro April 18, 2009 at 8:58 am: These digital frames are great. Gave a few as gifts recently loaded with photos and it was a hit.

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4 Claudia April 18, 2009 at 10:23 am: How exciting for the possibility! But more important is the actual capture of that wonderful moment. They are so fleeting that unless we really do stop and smell the roses and note them or photograph them… they are simply a moment possibly lost to our memory.

thanks for the chance!
Ohhh and thanks for stopping by my blog– you rock.

Claudias inspiring blog post..Serendipity
5 Jeri/JJ April 18, 2009 at 10:27 am: I left a Mr. Linky! Thanks, I enjoyed reading the others.

Jeri/JJs inspiring blog post..Something beautiful indeed…
6 Ashley Crenshaw April 18, 2009 at 10:27 am: What an awesome giveaway! This Kodak Easy Share would definately help me diplay my photos! I’m so terrible about trying to send out pictures to friends and family. I’ve been lucky enough to catch my son on camera doing all those little boy things! Gotta love it!
7 Claudia April 18, 2009 at 10:37 am: Oohh forgot to say I linked this to my blog.

AND twitted too. (although i really have to admit I have no idea how that works) i just keep typing….
Pssssst ya might want to delete one of my Mr.Linkys…cuz i goofed up.

Big hugs!

Claudias inspiring blog post..Serendipity
8 K G April 18, 2009 at 10:43 am: This is wonderful.
9 Diane April 18, 2009 at 11:56 am: Oooh, I would love to have one of these for my mom! She’s bedridden and has a photos of my daughter at the foot of her bed. This would be great for her!
10 Joy April 18, 2009 at 12:40 pm: Thank you to you and Kodak for this give away. Reading your blog and looking at the pretty pictures is one of the special moments in my day.

Joys inspiring blog post..Sage Neck Tie Purse
11 Jenny April 18, 2009 at 1:47 pm: We have so many digital photos, and I’d love to have a frame like that. We have given them for gifts but don’t own one ourselves. Thanks for offering this.
12 kasey April 18, 2009 at 4:45 pm: Impressive give away!! It’s a great one. I hope I win!!

kaseys inspiring blog post..Don’t Look Back (N.R.J. Part 4)
13 SoBella Creations April 18, 2009 at 4:52 pm: I finally can add to Mr. Linky.

I shared pictures from our Easter and Sofia’s 3rd Birthday. The girls are what make my life beautiful.

SoBella Creationss inspiring blog post..Sofia’s 3rd Birthday & Easter Weekend
14 SoBella Creations April 18, 2009 at 4:54 pm: I also twittered about the giveaway. Name SoBellaCreation

SoBella Creationss inspiring blog post..Sofia’s 3rd Birthday & Easter Weekend
15 cris April 18, 2009 at 5:40 pm: what a wonderful frame to have in front of me all day long . . . so many i love live so very far away – so thankful for photos!!
16 Karen April 18, 2009 at 6:02 pm: What a great giveaway! I am Internet challenged, so my only entry will be this post.
17 laurie miller April 18, 2009 at 7:06 pm: I loved this post. I work in a quilt shop and today a young (pregnant) mom and her little girl came in. They did their shopping and her little girl reminded her that she said she would read her a story before they left. I saw them in a corner reading the book. It was so sweet and I think of it as one of those special moments…

laurie millers inspiring blog post..Easter
18 Misty O April 18, 2009 at 7:20 pm: Oh those baby feet just made me melt. I wish I could have my babies that little just one more day.

Thanks!
19 Diane April 18, 2009 at 7:25 pm: Your site is wonderful. Please enter me for the digital picture frame drawing. Thanx!
20 Rosalynn April 18, 2009 at 8:01 pm: Oh I would LOVE this!! I’ll be linking a post as soon as I get it up. Today I’ve been getting pictures of our family bike ride to the lake. I’m so glad it’s finally warm enough outside to go!

http://www.rhbdesigns.etsy.com
rhbdesigns at hotmail dot com
21 Dianne April 18, 2009 at 8:14 pm: I happened to have the opportunity to capture a very special moment this week. My husband suggested we visit my 90 year old grandma on the Easter weekend so on Monday we drove the two hours with our eight year old and four year old. Our eight year old is now taller than his Great Grandma (to his delight). Lots of photos were taken of a very proud boy standing tall next to his Great-Grandma and a very shy little boy trying to be careful around his fragile Great-Grandma. Priceless!
22 Susie April 18, 2009 at 8:21 pm: Love those ten little toes…
Every night before I go to sleep…I play a slide show in my mind of the ones I love…family is everything…the littlest moments in time can make the biggest memories. I am blessed.

Warm Wishes,
Susie
23 Kara April 18, 2009 at 9:05 pm: This is such a wonderful giveaway, I love it!!
Thanks so much for the chance to win.

Oh, and I just love your Beautiful Life Mr. Linky every week!

Karas inspiring blog post..Spring? Break
24 dawnelle April 18, 2009 at 9:19 pm: wow!!!

dawnelles inspiring blog post..like thread through a needle
25 Janie Phillips April 18, 2009 at 11:55 pm: That’s so awesome! We’ve been looking into getting one of these frames recently. They’re great! We want to get one for each of our moms for pictures of their grandson, since we’re stationed overseas right now and they don’t see him on a daily basis.

Janie Phillipss inspiring blog post..My husband, the pastry chef!
26 Jodi Jackson April 19, 2009 at 6:18 am: I just spent an incredible evening with 30 or so members of my family. We were all visiting under a big, white tent and the wind decided to blow and take the tent with it. With the help of all of us, we saved the tent. It was a disaster, but I have never had more fun in my life. Yes, we got pictures. Precious moments!
27 Jennifer Partin April 19, 2009 at 6:55 am: Wow! How cool is that?

Jennifer Partins inspiring blog post..Madeline’s Elementary School’s Opening Ceremony
28 TidyMom April 19, 2009 at 8:04 am: What an AWESOME giveaway!! Thanks for the chance to win!!

~TidyMom

TidyMoms inspiring blog post..A FRESH NEW LOOK!
29 Gretchen April 19, 2009 at 8:29 am: My favorite moment this week was dying eggs with my girls. Even though we were late, we still had so much fun creating our “masterpieces” together. And it didn’t matter to them that it was after Easter already! I was reminded that “Better late than never” really can be true sometimes.

Gretchens inspiring blog post..My new gig
30 Emily @ Peach & Pearl April 19, 2009 at 8:54 am: What a lovely contest! I would love to win!
31 Joanne April 19, 2009 at 9:53 am: This is like the grandest of all grand prizes! Oh, I so hope I win this. Thanks, Joanne ~~ glamourgirljoanne@yahoo.com
32 Shari April 19, 2009 at 10:24 am: Oh me, oh my, what a special prize! I take so many photos that no one ever gets to enjoy – this would be a grand solution! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway!
33 MJ April 19, 2009 at 10:53 am: What an amazing giveaway.

I’ve been working on prettying up our front hall, which is also our gathering place for reading, chatting, watching TV. It had become a bit cluttered and I am so pleased with how it is emerging.
34 Nancy April 19, 2009 at 11:14 am: This would be even more inspiration to capture the special moments!
35 Sandra Strickler April 19, 2009 at 11:27 am: Love your blog! And I love these frames. Haven’t saved money to get one yet, but some day!!!
36 Tiffany April 19, 2009 at 1:30 pm: We just had a new baby, and have plenty of cute pictures to display on that frame:)
37 Berneice April 19, 2009 at 2:17 pm: I love your website. And I LOVE digital frames.
38 Vanessa April 19, 2009 at 3:05 pm: I captured the joy on my boys’ faces as we went to the strawberry fields for the first time this spring. There’s just something so absolutely perfect about kids, strawberries, and a gorgeous spring day.
39 Nicole April 19, 2009 at 3:05 pm: would love to give this to the grandparents!!
40 Jersey Girl in DC April 19, 2009 at 4:23 pm: Please count me in! What a wonderful giveaway! We’re expecting our first baby and I’d love this frame for displaying all the baby photos and special moments to come!

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41 Jennifer April 19, 2009 at 6:24 pm: great way to actually SEE those digital photographs we keep hidden in our cameras and computers!
42 Sarah D. April 19, 2009 at 6:46 pm: My link doesn’t necessarily apply to finding beauty with the eye. Mine is about music, and how it touches the soul.

Sarah D.s inspiring blog post..Good for the soul
43 Denise April 19, 2009 at 6:48 pm: What a great giveaway. I would love to win the Kodak digital frame!!

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44 Christa April 19, 2009 at 7:09 pm: Great blog post – it usually IS life’s little moments that are the most precious.
45 karri April 19, 2009 at 8:00 pm: it
truly
is
a
beautiful
life!
<3,
karri
46 Tamara April 19, 2009 at 9:21 pm: I have taking tons and tons of photos over the years and cherish every one of them! THey just capture those litte moments that go by so quickly

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47 ImagineCozy April 19, 2009 at 9:51 pm: I love your thoughtful posts. You really are great about inspiring us to “be better” and “do better.’ Thank You

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48 Carrie April 19, 2009 at 11:01 pm: What an awesome giveaway! Please let this be my lucky day !
Thanks so much–
49 sandy April 20, 2009 at 4:58 am: Count me in!
Can you believe w/all of our photography, we don’t have one of these?

Happy Monday! Thanks Melissa!
50 Sandy April 20, 2009 at 5:57 am: Hi Melissa,
Aweomse post! I needed that after my pityparty weekend I had. New day, new week! The little things in life are so incredible! Sometimes get too busy to stop and notice them!
Thanks for the reminder. Have a fabulous week.
Blessings,
Sandy

Sandys inspiring blog post..
51 Elizabeth Flowers April 20, 2009 at 6:08 am: Oooooh! What a neat frame and fun give-away!!

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52 Roberta April 20, 2009 at 6:08 am: Mom moved out of her home of 60 years and my brother and I have spent the past three weeks lovingly fixing, painting and bringing NEW life to it. It has restored our relationship and has truly been a healing experience!
xo Roberta
53 JoAnne April 20, 2009 at 7:13 am: I took my 5 year old son for our first frolic of the year in the sand and surf of the beach yesterday. As I was snapping picture after picture, it struck me that I am swiftly approaching the time when playing in the sand, searching for shells and laughing at the water lapping at our feet won’t interest him anymore. So I snapped a few more pictures to bring back these memories when that day comes.

JoAnnes inspiring blog post..And with that…
54 Deb April 20, 2009 at 7:40 am: I just posted about getting my granddaughter to like to clean. At least at my house. We spent the weekend together, being girly and then hunting for worms. It is a beautiful life.
55 Kimberly April 20, 2009 at 8:05 am: What a great item for our home! Thank you for hosting this giveaway!

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56 Shari April 20, 2009 at 8:07 am: I get such great inspiration from you. Love, love your site and you have inspired me to really, really want the digital frame!!!
57 Maria E April 20, 2009 at 8:32 am: Wow! I love your blog, and I am always inspired by something in it……. I was reading about the Kodak frame, and I would so love a chance to win it!! Visit my blog! miasfolkart.blogspot.com, it’s noy as inspiring as yours or many of the ones listed here, but it’s me!!!

Maria Es inspiring blog post..Happy Easter, and…….
58 Jeane Gallo April 20, 2009 at 8:41 am: What a fantastic giveaway. Please enter me in the contest for the Kodak frame. I would love to have it – we could get pictures of our grandson loaded directly from the Kodak site.

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59 Maria E April 20, 2009 at 9:15 am: here is the correct blog post!!

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60 allison schrade April 20, 2009 at 9:48 am: Last Mother’s Day my husband put together a slideshow for me of our favorite family moments. It brought tears and smiles to everyone. I would love to be able to surprize him with this frame for Father’s Day. What a perfect thing for his office!
61 V. Higgins April 20, 2009 at 10:12 am: *drool* I’ve been wanting a digital picture frame for months!
62 jen April 20, 2009 at 10:38 am: I enjoy reading little ideas here and there. Thanks for the giveaway chance! I’ve wanted one of these for a long time now.

jens inspiring blog post..to my husband
63 Lonni April 20, 2009 at 10:45 am: My parents have a photo frame that I love!! I wish I had one too!!
64 Amanda April 20, 2009 at 12:55 pm: What a great way to display all those captured moments in our lives! Thanks for an awesome giveaway!

Amandas inspiring blog post..Spontaneous Photo Shoot
65 Jessica April 20, 2009 at 1:47 pm: What a generous giveaway!!
Love the frame and would love the chance to be entered!
Thanks!

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66 Erin Heilig April 20, 2009 at 2:58 pm: Thanks for the entry!
67 Aubrey April 20, 2009 at 3:34 pm: Thank you so much for this opportunity! We are about to have baby #4 in less than three weeks, so this would certainly come in handy!

Thanks again!
Aubrey
68 Holly Blocker April 20, 2009 at 4:14 pm: Thanks Melissa for a great opportunity to hopefully win that photo frame! It would be such a great house-warming gift since we just signed a contract on our very 1st house!! What a wonderful way to capture these 1st memories of our new home! Thanks!

Holly Blockers inspiring blog post..2 Weeks and counting….
69 Suzanne April 20, 2009 at 4:55 pm: Pictures do inspire our future. What else can bring back a warm feeling or sweet memory?

I’d definitely love to be in the giveaway. I also put it on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TCOYou .

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70 kIMBERLY H ~CJ'S MOMMY April 20, 2009 at 4:56 pm: This week I captured the bright eyes of my son as he looked over pictures from our trip last year to Disney World. It made us so happy to see he remembered (even though he was 2) “Mick Mouse” and how excited he became,we went ahead and booked another trip to see “Mick Mouse” this fall and we will be there on his birthday. As it was last year,Im sure it will be worth every penny.
We need this frame for our magical photos.
71 Lisa W April 20, 2009 at 5:02 pm: Love the Blog… love the giveaway!

Blessings ~
Lisa
72 Lyn Kearns April 20, 2009 at 8:24 pm: Capturing the kids (3.5 and 1) actually playing together nicely, it was so sweet, made my day.

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73 Jessica April 21, 2009 at 7:57 am: I would love to win this so that I could fill it with our wedding, honeymoon, and travel picutres and give it to my husband for our third anniversay. I love your always-so-inspiring blog!
74 Misty April 21, 2009 at 9:02 am: I would love to win this little bit o memory making technology! Pick me!
75 Kim D. April 21, 2009 at 9:08 am: I LOVE this. I have been wanting one just like this for my mother! I want to be able to update her pictures from our house, which is three hours away! This is an awesome giveaway!

Thanks so much!

Kim
76 Catherine D. April 21, 2009 at 9:42 am: I would love to give this digital frame to my mom so she can display pictures of her children and granddaughter without having to get prints made!
77 kelly quinn April 21, 2009 at 9:53 am: What a great give-away!!

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78 Carey April 21, 2009 at 10:06 am: This would be a great addition to our home.
79 Cindy April 21, 2009 at 10:25 am: I would love this for my husband – would be a great Father’s day present.
Thanks!
Cindy
80 Jenn April 21, 2009 at 11:32 am: How beautiful! A frame that enhances the images and doesn’t take away from them.
81 Dolly April 21, 2009 at 2:16 pm: What a wonderful give away!
I would love to win this!
Please drop my name in the hat!

Thanks a bunch!
Hugz & Blessings,
Dolly

Dollys inspiring blog post..Cherry Cottage Easter Carrots So ReTrO SWEET csst
82 kk April 21, 2009 at 3:30 pm: photos are windows to the soul…
83 Emily April 21, 2009 at 8:00 pm: It would be amazing to win this! Thanks for the giveaway!
84 emily April 21, 2009 at 8:16 pm: What a perfectly lovely post, Melissa. And an awesome giveaway! Thank you for linking up with Tuesdays Unwrapped. I love your heart and the way you express it, my friend.

emilys inspiring blog post..tuesdays unwrapped
85 Amanda Martinez April 21, 2009 at 8:57 pm: What a nice site. I would like to enter your contest.
86 Mrs. C April 22, 2009 at 5:01 am: Please count me in; I’ve had one of these on my “wish list” for quite a while.
87 Grainne April 22, 2009 at 6:46 am: I’m just now discovering the world of Blogdom . . . coming to all this quite late, am I not? *smile*
Your blog inspires me! The emphasis on Beauty and Order is what this world needs nowadays.
Thanks for your efforts!
88 bindiya April 22, 2009 at 8:32 am: I would be the happiest to win this.. since its 2 yrs and i am planning to have this and not able to.. I would just love to win this.. its like a dream come true
bindiya02@gmail.com
89 bindiya April 22, 2009 at 8:33 am: i twitted abt this
bindiya02@gmail.com
90 bindiya April 22, 2009 at 8:34 am: i would be happy to share the best moments of my entire life on this frame..!
bindiya02@gmail.com