12 Days Until I Turn 30

I was a week off...

Just last Saturday I was saying to Dan, "I wonder if the daisies will come back this year. I thought it was this time last year that they were blanketing the backyard." And yet there was nothing...

Daisies are my favorite flower and I love that they grow wildly through our backyard. No effort. Its nothing I can screw up-- because I can kill almost any plant.

Then this week I saw one lone daisy popping through... and by today we have dozens!! I was one week off!

Here's a peek at one.

A lot of the others had buggies on them which doesn't make for a nice shot.

So instead I'll post the photos I took last year and likely didn't take the time to post.

Kathleen Kelly: I love daisies.

Joe Fox: You told me.

Kathleen Kelly: They're so friendly. Don't you think daisies are the friendliest flower?

// Quote from "You've Got Mail" // My favorite movie!

Sigh. This is one of my favorites.

These last two really show you the duality that is our yard.

First, the beautiful fawns eating from our lawn. Spotted baby deer in the canvas of our lawn spotted with daisies. So gorgeous and natural.

Then move about 30 yards towards the woods, and there was an old piece of shop equipment [what it was, I do not know] rusted and old with the pretty daisies sprouting up in front. I love the contrast.

I love our yard! All the time there is something new to look forward to and admire. Such beauty right in my own backyard- literally.

tuesday {or wednesday, rather, but it felt like a tuesday}

Apparently Will & Tuesday are permanently attached to one another in my mind.
I labelled this post Tuesday.
But it wasn't.
It was Wednesday.
Boy, I'm easily thrown off!

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today i started reading Gorgeously Green by Sophie Uliano
i ordered it online
used, because that's greener, right?

i'm totally hooked. i love Sophie's style
her approach to going green
it doesn't have to be all or nothing
every little bit counts
we can all find ways to reuse, recycle, buy greener, be healthier
[without living on 100% solar power, wearing our hemp clothes that we handwash and line dry three times a year]
there's a happy medium
start slowly
maintain
be mindful

it fits in with what i'm doing with Be-Fit
feels like a lot of things are coming full circle right now
good stuff!

this quote totally rocked my world this morning
i felt like i was reading something i had written... or had thought and somehow it had leapt out onto a page:

this would be a good mantra, a manifesto:

"I want to walk around with my head high, feeling proud of all the choices I am making. I want to be a woman who takes care of myself and the world around me. I want to have self-respect and a great body! I want to live my deepest core values and look totally gorgeous. I want each year to get even better as I grow older. I want to become kinder, wiser, and more beautiful, and I want to see this reflected in the world around me. I want my hair to shine, my skin to glow, and my heart to sing. I want it all."


well, here's one bit of my life that makes my heart sing

love that smile
those cheeks! he's the cutest

shirt says-
little kid
big noise

so true
although he's very willing to play the whisper game. if you whisper, he'll whisper back. mucho cuteness




the fishy face is still fairly new and he's totally hooked on it
i tried to do it with him a few times and my cheeks are still sore
guess he's got young, fit muscles!










here's my attempt
managed not to laugh
which, amazingly is much easier with no one watching us
unlike when i tried this with his mom on new years eve
right guys? ;)













even while jumping, and dancing, and bopping his head around....
still with the fishy face
think its a sign that he's ready for pool season!! :)








another favorite lately
pulling
on
my
hair

he loves it
most of the time he doesn't pull too hard
which is why he can get away with it



silly times :)


a new toy!! uncle danny donated his old work cell phones to will's play stash he liked it we were saying "lalalalalalala" into the phone he was pretending to talk :) its all about mimicing these days!

shoes
and
feet

he loves them
he was thrilled to get his hands on my new sneaks
in fact he rolled all the way across the livingroom to get his hands on them

yep,
you're busted little dude :)




and probably the ultimate game right now
patty cake
he especially loves
ROLL IT












{{still rolling}}}















and PAT IT

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt.

- Leo Buscaglia

A good lesson

"Use the talents you possess- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best." -Henry van Dyke

Another great quote courtesy of Ali Edwards' Blog

Alan Cohen : It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.