wannabe a kid again.........

• I wannabe a kid again........
• Sometimes.......
• I wanna play all day.
• I wanna play and not look silly.
• I wanna play in the sand.
• I wanna not think about the sand in my underwear.
• I wanna climb the slides.
• I wanna be able to do the monkey bars.
• I wanna ride my bike just to ride.
• I wanna ride without a helmet
• I wanna ride without bike seat butt.
• I wanna ride my banana seat, green sparkly Schwinn.
• I wanna climb the tree.
• I wanna not worry if the branch will hold.
• I wanna way to get down or not.
• I wanna ride the teeter totter down the hill.
• I wanna have the hill look just as big.
• I wanna stand on the totter going down the hill.
• I wanna climb on the swing set and sit on top.
• I wanna swing from up there by my knees.
• I wanna get up when I get up.
• I wanna feel rested.
• I wanna eat when I am hungry.
• I wanna eat what I want to eat.
• I wanna be in the photo.
• I wanna not worry about what it looks like.
• I wanna run like a kid.
• I wanna look like a kid running.
• I wanna run in the sprinkler.
• I wanna wear a two piece.
• I wanna wear the same top two days in a row, cause I like it.
• I wanna not match, okay I don't wanna do that. I always matched.
• I wanna drink Coke (real) from the glass bottle and feel the fizz.
• I wanna have my water to taste like Coke when I was a kid.
• I wanna eat ice cream.
• I wanna have a sticky drip arm, with a dirt mark.
• I wanna have chocolate in the corners, all day and enjoy it at summer.
• I wanna lay in the sun and listen to the white plastic static radio.
• I wanna wear baby oil, not SPF 83.
• I wanna go places.
• I wanna have mom decide what next fun thing we'll do.
• I wanna do them without rolling my eyes.
• I wanna be excited to be 10.
• I wanna not worry about turning a much bigger number.
• I wanna dream those dreams again.
• I wanna just have fun.
• I wanna do all these things with my Belle.
• I wanna have her smile and be 10.
• I wanna show her all the things I missed.
• I wanna show her all the things I got to do.
• I wanna have her just be.....be happy.......
• I wanna do so many things, my wanna list could go for days. Do you have a wanna list?
• -L
  

it's in the details........

Sometimes a layout will catch hold of me, for the details.....

I then I think gosh I did that, hehehe...

only 9 things ha! I could create list after list....

Summer has arrived at our house and there is not a QUIET spot ANYWHERE!!!

I keep looking and I have found one yet. It seems to be just plain full of activity,

sound and stuff.

You know when the bus would arrive and off to school they would go,

I had even just 5 or 10 minutes to gather up the leftovers of the morning and start my day fresh.

Day two of summer break and those five minutes have vanished.

So have all food yummies in the cupboards and frig.......ugh!!!!!

That is just what I need is a summer food program....

I had a chance to sit down and fill out our June calendar and OMG! I had more going now then during the school year!! How is that possible? I am grateful for the activities, but what ever happened to summer relaxing. Now days we have to schedule a day at the lake....

Overall I am so happy to have her home and be with her each day. I am happy she can sleep when she is tired and read all the things she has been wanting to read. To see her smile all day long and share all of her excitement. I am grateful that she still wants to be with me. I am really looking forward to summer and all the things we are double booking for the all to short season.

May your summer be filled with laughter and a few precious QUIET moments in the sun or shade.

_L.....

gods lessons of love.....

Lessons in love.....

You thought you knew love, how to love and what it meant to be loved.

You never really knew...........

until now, God gave me you.....

To love with honesty, peace, simply by each moment.

It is amazing how life becomes about the moments rather than the plan.

When Belle was born on a Thursday, I went right back to work the next Wednesday. I was on the phone the very next day working. I thought nothing of that, it was just what I did. It was my responsibility and I had a hard time letting go of that. Once I did my life then became full.

I have never been a person with much emotional attachments until now. I believe I can truly say I am in love. Don't get me wrong I love my hubby he is wonderful and taught me how to love. But the gift we share is beyond measure.

Our gift is brought out the passion I have to create and scrap. I can't get every moment on paper fast enough. Someone once asked me what will "She" ever do with all the scrapbooks and the artwork? I still can't answer that silly question. Maybe my obsession with the scrapbooking began as a way to capture the moments, to document. But it is now so much more.

It a chance to be in each moment at little bit longer....

As I move forward in life I still have a plan--My plan is to be in the moment and that is it. Moments are what we have....

To just be.......believe in the simplicity's of love.

Love with honesty and love the tiniest of things.

Love in the things that may not matter much.

-L.

The photo is hard to see....It is a photo that I played with photoshop and then printed on cardstock. Once the layout was complete I sprayed Maya mist over the entire layout. Maya mist can be found at Studio Calico. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey and Thickers helped with the titlework..

the flowers are blooming

Spring is upon us.....

The birds are singing and filling my yard with sweet songs.

We are just days away from the ends of school and my afternoons will be soon full

of my little sweetie and a few others.

I can't believe that summer is almost here and the time moves so quickly, I can hardly breathe.

I am so glad to be the one she is coming home to, the one she chooses to do her hair, and hold her hand.

I love all the moments....even when she decides to be her own woman and we find it to hard to agree...

Yesterday we had to see the dentist for a routine 6 month visit. That visit turned into a tooth pulling event...I all I could do is hold her hand and cry with her. At the moment I wanted nothing more than to back up and change the appointment. To take her in my arms and hold her tight, because no matter how simple the task my have seemed it was one more. Another moment to step toward independence and being her own woman. The little marks toward change and before I know it there will be no more need for the tooth fairy to visit.

I love the tooth fairy she is a good woman......

-L.

thankful...........

Grateful....

This single word is one of the most wonderful words in our world.

I am grateful for every small detail in my life..

I am so very grateful to all the families in this world that have given their loved ones to the world. To protect us and our children's children. To protect the every day simple things in life.

It is hard to imagine that because, our soldiers are the brave men and women we are able to go to work and to school, almost without concern. Of even simply to be able to get up and have breakfast. To go places and do all the things we love without worry. To be able to plant our flowers and grow our seeds in the sunshine. To make choices for ourselves and to be safe.

Thank you for helping us just to be......

We are very proud of you Peter and Peter's Mom (for letting go a little).....

-L.