No words of wisdom today (like I could ever provide those!) Just hug the important ones close to your heart, remind them every single day that they are precious, important, WORTHWHILE and that in both the grand scheme of things AND the day-to-day "nothings", they MATTER.
xoxo, t
Found the big box of pre-scrapbook photos. SO cool to relive these just by looking through them. But, a lot of the details are fuzzy! Going to make 2006 a focus on getting some of these on paper, with what I do recall before more of it is lost. Picked up a bunch of frames by My Mind's Eye. Love these. One of my "calling cards" on digital layouts is using frames, but since spending more time on paper, I have sort of dropped it because there weren't so many (at least that I liked.) 
SO happy to see these popping up in their Wild Asparagus and Kaleidoscope lines. Also lovin' the new stuff I've been seeing come out of last week's CHA. Lots of blogs have some great pics, check them out (Inspiration links at right.)
Been making some big purchases and decisions lately. Finally orderd the Speedlight 800 flash for my Nikon. Heard great things from several people, most recently Joy Uzarraga, so got it headin' my way! Also got another Nikon, the P1, so I can have a great LITTLE camera to keep with me ALL the time. Blows me away that is 8 MP, so cool. Then we decided we needed another TiVo, with the DVD burner. Too much good stuff we want to see and for some reason, this season, it's all on at the same time. Hello? House AND Scrubs opposite each other? What are we to do? Can't believe I've gone from almost no TV last season to more than I care to admit this one. Good thing I can multi-task or I wouldn't get anything done. We also decided to get rid of all the carpet on the main floor and get hardwood! Yeah! We picked a beautiful medium-dark walnut-ish (how is that for description? Just trying to say it isn't the light oak/pine.) Before the flooring though we need to get some drywalling done so I can get some walls painted. Time for some new colors! And some new carpet for the stairs and upstairs hall. Of course, will we accomplish all this in any good time?? LOL, i HOPE so, but won't hold my breath. (Of course, I can't hold my breath, since a trip to the doc's yesterday labeled me an asthmatic with bronchitis. Three prescriptions - ugh!)
I would be remiss if I didn't ask for a moment of silence for the Seahawks. For DJ's sake.
Have a great week!
[ t ]
Pulled this newspaper out of the garbage after Indy had done some painting on top of it. Loved the paint streaks on the newsprint! Thought it suited these pictures of the girls in full mud! Can't tell you how gross they looked, but man was their skin soft afterwards - no lie! Those mud treatments must really work. "Don't get dirty" was of course the first thing WE said and the first thing THEY did! Fun to watch though! Goofy kids. I'm ready for summer for more of this kinda' thing!
In other news, we hit a deer coming over the pass Thursday night. Was the proverbial deer in the headlights with him/her stopping enough we thought, at 60 mph, we could miss her if we swerved right. At which point she bolted right, so we swerved left and she stopped in mid-run and we hit her, probably at about 40 mph. About 30 seconds after that another car pulled over and luckily had a gun (??) - he put her out of her misery. Was horrible and sad and that sound, of a gunshot, in the dark, in the woods, is sickening. Shade and Carsey had just been dropped off with their Dad, but Indy saw the whole thing. Quite upset, understandably so, and inconsolable for most of the way home. This all occured in the Explorer, which, if you remember, I JUST paid off in November. Glad we have insurance, but mostly just sad about the whole thing. The poor deer didn't have "insurance". I realize that sounds stupid, but it just sucks any way you look at it.
And on to yarn. Have you ever seen a cuter thing to make than this? Gotta get that on my needles pronto!
t
When you have 3 daughters you have three times a LOT of things. Three times the fun, three times the drama, the clothes...I think 6 times the shoes, 3 times the flippant remarks, lip curls, hair tosses, deadly glares, etc...It's never boring at our house, that's for sure!
Today was sunny and Friday and my house is clean and I get to sleep in for two whole days (normally I go to bed at 11:30-ish and get up at 5:15.) By Friday I am wiped! And we've turned winter's corner to spring so things are on the upswing! Love the rose-colored glasses I must be wearing right now!
What is making you smile right now?
[ t ]
Love my soldered frame ornament by the lovely and talented (and generous!) Teresa McFayden. Ornaments aren't just for Christmas!
t 