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In honor of the soon-arriving vernal equinox
Today, as a result of the melting snow, the older boy I babysit discovered a squirt gun in the backyard.
His immediate reaction was to brandish it at his siblings and yell, "WELCOME TO THE GUN SHOW!"
It's going to be a great summer. I can already tell. -
a thankful heart
I'm really really grateful that I'm in my twenties and not my teens.
I'm still just as bad at managing my time, though. I need to get up earlier, or something, so that I can get things done in the mornings before work. -
The memories of your smile
Five years ago, I was almost eighteen and full of trivial drama.
Five years ago, nothing was ever going to change with us.
Five years ago, I had seven best friends.
Five years ago, we were invincible.
Five years ago, I'd only experienced death in abstract, it-was-his-time sorts of ways.
March 12, 2006, changed all that.
Elliot. How we miss ( Read more... ) -
corn and beans
I always know I have found a person of substance when he or she manages to ask me questions that make me hesitate and consider lying ( Read more... ) -
you dare dream your hands are the hands of a man
Ways to win my heart
(whether romantic, or otherwise)
Be honest.
Offer me tea.
Let me play with cats and dogs and don't make fun of me.
Compliment and affirm me.
Don't apologize for who you are, but don't give up on who you might become, either.
Laugh at me and tell me when you think I do something cute.
See what I should be--not what I am ( Read more... ) -
I remember you best
You never know what you got
'Til it's gone
~TobyMac
Often--very often, actually--I start to bathe in memories, and suddenly realize how absolutely stupid I usually am ( Read more... ) -
do you hear that?
What forgiveness sounds like--
screaming, and then silence.
Creepy as it may sound, sometimes Llamas with Hats are very very wise. -
back off, cran-man
Sometimes, I feel like a juice person in the dairy aisle.
Eenie Meenie has inexplicably been stuck in my head since Tuesday. Sam and I had a dance party whilst listening to it on repeat. Does this make me a loser?
Yesterday's quote of the day from one of the kiddos
me: Your sister had a shorter time-out, because she told me the truth. When I ( Read more... ) -
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A crucial difference between girls and boys--
Given the exact same "party-themed" foamie-sticker things, they will come up with completely different murals ( Read more... ) -
krazy Kat lady
Tonight, while my family went out to their individual spiritual growth activities, I stayed in and did my taxes and talked to the cats. It was the very first day of the rest of my life-long career.
I'm so proud.