Beauty

Some times there are things that one person may think are absolutely beautiful but the people around him or her just don't see.
Like this bench that my mom received from a very good friend of hers.

It's hard to see the beauty in it when you just look at it.

But if you take the time to really look at it, look at it from her perspective, you may see the beauty that she sees.

A lesson to live by. A true lesson. One that I hope to always remember. One that I hope I will teach my children.

Wearing my heart

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” Quote by Elizabeth Stone...

This is a quote I had heard before I had kids and thought I understood. I didn't. But now I do.

When I look at these four kids my heart skips beats. I love them more then life itself.


A love that only another parent could truly understand. A love that actually causes a physical reaction to my insides when I really think about it.

As Elizabeth Stone wrote, my heart now walks around outside my body.

And I am pretty sure it always will...

Arizona sunset

The beautiful Arizona sunset...

The gorgeous view from my parents yard...



Oh how I miss you warm sun...

Oh, wait, it wasn't very warm at all after the first day but it sure was pretty!

And, to be honest, it is worth being in 3 feet of snow if my love is with me!

When life gives you lemons...

When life gives you lemons....

Or you grow lemons in your front yard.

And your granddaughter picks the very first lemon off that tree..

Or you go to the local post office and there is a box full of lemons for anyone to take.

It's time to make lemonade!

So get out the lemon squeezer...

And your muscles...

Have Grammy help cut the lemons in half and put them on...

And pull that lemon squeezer down!

Just watch your eyes when you squeeze the lemons...

And always, always, add sugar to sweeten it up!

MIA

Are you wondering why I have been MIA for a bit? Oh, you didn't notice!?!?

It's because just over a week ago we boarded this plane...
To head off for some greener pastures.

Or, really just another state, that was far away and much greener than ours.

We went to Arizona to visit Grammy and Grampy for a week.

So now I need to get some posts done about our wonderful trip!

What do you see?

A laundry basket with paper on top???
Perhaps the maxi pads that were used to hold the paper together and attach the paper to the top?

A bey blade flying through the air and landing on top of the maxi pads that are holding the paper on the top???

At first this is what I saw too...

Until Maggie showed me what this really was, a home for "Hammy".

Cleverly made with an empty tissue box, tissues from the newly opened tissue box, paper, a laundry basket, part of a recorder and of course, maxi pads...

I don't really encourage "wasting" maxi pads, papers and tissues so I guess it was a really good thing these things went to good use!

I walked in the living room...

To see Ben getting a diaper and some wipes.

I was curious so I asked him what he was doing. He walked over to Taylor, our beloved bath baby, and said, "wipe bum".

He was so serious, and ridiculously cute, "changing" Taylor's diaper.


Those diapers are tricky to figure out so after trying for a few seconds he decided to go back to wiping her bum....

Oh Benny, you're gonna make a good daddy someday!