Baby Grand Piano

This month at Take Out Photo, the Monthly Special is Music + Photo. When I first saw this special, I didn't think I would be able to come up with anything to do with music. I love music and love to sing, but I'm not around musical instruments, and I'm just not creative otherwise. With it on my mind for a few days, it hit me just what I was meant to do. Not because it really is the only musical instrument that's a part of my life anymore, my junior high flute playing days are over, but because of the sentimental value of it.

This white baby grand piano sits in my mother-in-law's front room, it didn't start out here and it doesn't belong to her.

In 1998, my 4 1/2 year old sister, Jacquelyn, passed away. This piano was bought in memory of her and sat in my dad's front room with a picture of Jacquelyn on top of it. It's beautiful just like she was.

After my dad passed away in 2002, things got rough in so many different ways. One of which was the house being sold. The only one of us siblings that had room for it at the time was Brianne. Later when her family moved to England, we didn't know what we would do with it. My mother-in-law was wonderful and let us "store" this beautiful white baby grand piano in her front room. How thankful I am for her willingness to share in this family treasure with us.
I didn't plan that these would be the pictures I would take, but as I was "practicing" what shots I wanted, the boys just so happened to be playing it. I love them so much more then the piano by itself.
I love that Malcolm is trying to look inside to see how it works.
I love Quinn's dirty feet with his bandaids he insisted would make his owie stop hurting.