365 Days 251-280

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” 

― E.E. Cummings



“You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.”
― Cormac McCarthy



“The jet is a great invention. Besides being a world shrinker, par excellence, it has much of the quality and charm of a roller coaster. And it's big. Once, years ago, on a ten-stop, cross-country air trip, I turned to the man next to me and said, quite genuinely: "What keeps these big goddam things up in the air?”
― Vincent Price



“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”
― Dylan Thomas



“I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you”
― Kiersten White



“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”
― Viggo Mortensen



“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
― Kim Edwards



“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche



“He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
― William Blake



“I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs



“True marriage begins well before the wedding day,” And the efforts of marriage continue well beyond the ceremony’s end. A brief moment in time and the stroke of the pen are all that is needed to create the legal bond of marriage, but it takes a lifetime of love, commitment, forgiveness, and compromise to make marriage durable and everlasting.”
― Jamie McGuire



“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”
― J.M. Barrie



“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
― Maya Angelou



“Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you. ”
― Arthur Golden



“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud



Ev'ry heart beats true
'neath the Red, White and Blue,
Where there's never a boast or brag.
-George M. Cohan

It was a struggle to get my photo in today.



“So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.”
― Stephen King



“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut



“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”
― Lisa Wingate



“I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.”
― C. JoyBell C.



“A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.”
― Toni Morrison



“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson



“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant



“I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me.”
― C. JoyBell C.



“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
― Chuck Palahniuk



“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
― George S. Patton Jr.



“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
― Joss Whedon



“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
― Albert Einstein



“The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.”
― Sylvia Plath

Week Two of Kindergarten

This past weekend Josh the kids and I all headed to the sidewalk art festival downtown. Pipes and I found a booth of hair clips and head bands. While we were looking around she got super excited because there was and Inside Out bow. Inside Out is currently Piper favorite move and she says she even likes it better then Frozen.

She of course wanted to wear her new bow for picture day on Monday and then again on Tuesday. When I picked Piper up from school on Tuesday her teacher walked her to me and said “We had a meltdown this afternoon, she was playing outside at recess and lost her bow. But don’t worry I went outside and we found it.” I know how much Piper loves that bow and she doesn’t just have small meltdowns so I can only imagine that the meltdown was pretty major.

On the way hope Piper went on and on about how kind and wonderful her teacher is and how wonderful it was that she helped her find her bow. She said I must draw her a picture to thank her. So as soon as she got home that is what she did. I helped her with the spelling of thank you and love and made sure the picture got put her communication folder. I also told her it is probably best to only wear the bow on special days. These little lessons are the ones that don't come in a lesson plan. 

Up next in the circle is Terri Collins from Terri Collins Photography. Please keep heading around the circle to see her little one's first day of school. 

365 Day 213-248

Finally cought up on blogging daily photos. Here are my favorite photos day 213-248!!

“This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.” 

― Jennifer Weiner



“Be it good or bad, Family is the shadow that never leaves our side.”
― Joan Ambu

“I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.”
― Jim Butcher



“Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

Tonight Buddy yelled, "Hey Mama, I found an ant hill" I said, 'oh you love ant hills." and he said "I know, I love them so much I dream about them".

Shortly after that conversion the neighbor girl brought him over to me because he had an ant stuck in his hair. Gotta love little boys!

“The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee...”
― Emily Dickinson



“You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.”
― Cecelia Ahern



“It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of flowers”
― Trina Paulus



“God I love rainbows.”
― John Green



“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”
― Gabriel Garcí-a Márquez



“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”
― Frida Kahlo



“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
― Maya Angelou



“Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
― Shannon L. Alder



“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

One of my all time favorite quotations...Yesterday reminded me that I need to take that Hot Air Balloon ride soon!



“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë




“I’m a firm believer in the chaotic nature of the creative process needing to be chaotic. If we put too much structure on it, we will kill it. So there’s a fine balance between providing some structure and safety—financial and emotional—but also letting it get messy and stay messy for a while. To do that, you need to assess each situation to see what’s called for. And then you need to become what’s called for.”
― Ed Catmull



“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
― Anaïs Nin



“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein



Tonight I'll dream while I'm in bed
when silly thoughts go through my head
about the bugs and alphabet
and when I wake tomorrow I'll bet
that you and I will walk together again
I can tell that we are gonna be friends
Yes I can tell that we are gonna be friends.
- The White Stripes



“Try a little harder to be a little better.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley



“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
— Nelson DeMille



“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake



“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman



“People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.”
― Amy Poehler



“Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.”
― Emily Giffin



“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk



The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
Garrison Keillor

I had a family session with three brothers Friday night.



“Sister. She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child.”
― Barbara Alpert



“God must have given Grandparents to us to liven up our lives more complete, to make us well rounded & better human beings. Their love is unconditional, unselfish, unending.”
― Fatima Nacana



“And there it is, against all hope, like the sun peeking out from behind the clouds. The smallest hint of a smile.”
― Amie Kaufman



"Going into the woods is going home." - John Muir



“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

Girly told me her Littlest Pet Shops were having a kissing party. EEk!



“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer



“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! "
― William Shakespeare



“Not only did
I love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More than others.
She was different.
After all; I would
be a fool not to
notice the way the
sunshine played with
her hair.”
― Christopher Poindexter



“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde



"So long sweet summer
I stumbled upon you and gratefully basked in your rays"
- Dashboard Confessional



“All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.”
― Jim Butcher