Tag Archives: love

7 Things I ♥ This Week

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heart puzzle

  1. The serrated edges of my daughter’s 3 brand new teeth
  2. Harvest Moon, the latest song my husband is learning to play
  3. My daughter’s latest interest in jumping rope
  4. The stack of story starters my daughter made with lined paper on the photocopier that simply say “Once upon a time…”
  5. My son’s new interest in sculpture and his air dry clay creations he calls “sculptions” that he think are going to make him rich
  6. Really getting to look at my daughters face and eyes on Sunday morning when she forgot her glasses
  7. Our library tote full of great picture books hand picked by our awesome librarian (included: Jonathan & Martha, I’m Bored, An Awesome Book of Thanks, Life in the Ocean, and Twelve Kinds of Ice)

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Love Notes

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Congratulations Heather, you won this giveaway!

pen and ink

Felix Doolittle Giveaway: Petite Love Notes

I have a short quiz for you today…

  1. Do you appreciate the finer things, like attention to detail?
  2. Do you value, appreciate, and like to support independent artists?
  3. Do you like to make friends and loved ones feel special?
  4. Are you emotionally drawn to small things and don’t know why?
  5. Are “wonder and imagination” words that speak deeply to you?

If you answered yes to these questions then I have something here you will love…
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The Cuddliest Boy in the World

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Next week the cuddliest boy in the world will turn 5 years old.  He is truly the cuddliest boy.  He insists on at least a hundred hugs from me a day.  And they are the full-body wrap-around monkey-style hugs.  Sometimes he will say “care for a hug”, sometimes he will say in the middle of the day “let’s go cuddle in bed together (sometimes and read books sometimes not)”, but usually he just climbs all over me.  In fact, guess where he is right now, my lap of course.  Oh and occasionally he wants me to pick him up and do the “lovey dance”.  Yup, the cuddliest boy!   Continue reading →

Pregnancy Test Trees and a Pickle Baby

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Pregnancy Test Tree

I have been meaning to write my child-birth stories.

It is on my long list of blog topics.  I really love hearing birth stories and enjoy telling mine.  And when I saw this: “Journey to Motherhood with Ricki Lake”, I thought now’s as good a time as any!  My first child-birth story:

Pregnancy Test Trees and a Pickle Baby is posted today on Blogher if you want to go check it out!

Yarn Hearts

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Simple Valentine Craft

Yarn Hearts

Take a look around your home…  Are you feeling the Valentine’s love yet?  Is there a serious lack of hearts in sight?  What if I told you you just need 30 minutes, some left-over chunky yarn, Elmer’s glue, and plastic wrap to whip your home into shape for Cupid’s arrival (now less than 1 month away)! Continue reading →

Valentine Books

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Valen(story)tine

Ever since I posted my Heart Garland craft, I can’t get red and pink hearts out of my mind!  Valentine’s Day is a whole month away and I am totally preoccupied with it (much more than usual).  Today I am making a request list for the library and though I would share my selections.  I picked some authors and illustrators I like, descriptions that were interesting, and tried to stay away from series and licensed characters…

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Better than a Good Idea

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Mother Daughter Craft Time

My daughter ORDERED me away from the computer yesterday after school while my son was napping.  It was a perfect stolen moment for a little mother-daughter time.  She had a craft for us to work on: stuffed construction paper animals.   I know it don’t sound like it would work but I have seen her make small pillows this way before and it does, sort of.  Anyways, the point is that’s not the point, right?! Continue reading →

New News

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2012 Doodle (ball-point pen in notebook, colored in Gimp)

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

This morning I took down last year’s calendar and putting up the new one.  I flipped to January and as I was looking at all those empty boxes so full of possibilities it reminded me how I love new things!  New things are full of potential, optimism, and perfection.  Many things are also nice when worn but that is a topic for an other day.

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