Davionn – “Mommy, why don’t you wear a cape?”
Me – “What do you mean, buddy?”
Davionn – “You know, a cape. I’m just sayin.” *big grin*
I guess that was enough said. 
Nature In Its Beauty
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ― Albert Einstein
” Maybe nothing gold can stay, but when crimson departure of day breeds stars on the heels of resolution… it feels a lot like hope.” ~Crystal DeTemple
“Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom…but only if you plant the seeds.” ― Steve Maraboli
“One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter” — Lewis Carroll
“You used to be much more…”muchier.” You’ve lost your muchness.” ― Lewis Carroll
“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us–that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect.” ― Emilio Estevez
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” ― John Lubbock
“As if the natural world’s been turned upside down.” Lord Mandrake.
“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.” ― Jack Kerouac
“Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!” ― C. JoyBell C.
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” ― George R.R. Martin
“Sometimes you can’t see the magic that dreams and wishes are made of… until you’re as low as you can possibly get.” ~Crystal DeTemple
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.” ― John Ruskin
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ― Epictetus
“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” ― Nicholas Sparks
“Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.” ― John Muir
~Crystal DeTemple
“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.” ― Cornelia Funke
“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?” ― Garth Nix
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” ― Henry Ellis
“What are men to rocks and mountains?” ― Jane Austen
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” ― Langston Hughes
“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.” ― Wallace Stevens
“High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.” ― Mark Twain
“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.” ― Paul Klee
“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“She doesn’t understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings – they’re helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.” ― Sonya Hartnett
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” ― J.M. Barrie
“I could gaze into the mirror until my eyes glazed over and never see so deeply inside myself, as I do when the day exhales… and all the colors of the universe sigh into my soul.” ~Crystal DeTempleExperience Life Through Senses
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
I choose to experience life through senses. In every sense.
“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” ― Charles Baudelaire
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe in the light at the end of the tunnel, I believe in a brighter future, I believe faith can move mountains. I believe in hope.
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen
“If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Wisdom comes from reflection.” ― Deborah Day
“The statue stood quiet and still, like the silhouette of a tired mime.
” ― Jarod Kintz
“The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
“There is, I have heard, a little thing called sunrise, in which the sun reverses the process we all viewed the night before. You might assume such a thing as mythical as those beasts that guard the corners of the earth, but I have it on the finest authority, and have, indeed, from time to time, regarded it with my own eyes.” Lauren Willig
“I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” ― Ricky Skaggs
“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.” ― Coco Chanel
“[My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky–‘the hem of heaven.” ― Nancy Horan
“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand” ― Hayley Williams
“These fragments I have shored against my ruins” ― T.S. Eliot
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.” Marcus AureliusLittle Wonders
– Susan Scarf Merrell
-Kahlil Gibran
And it is through the experience of little wonders, big love fills our lives and learning is our light.
“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”
― Alice Walker
All Hail Bacon
Davionn – “Mommy, what kind of animal does bacon come from?”
Me – “A pig.”
Davionn – “Oh! We get milk from pigs too!”
Me – “No buddy, we get milk from cows and goats.”
Davionn – “But pigs make milk too.”
Me – “Yes, they do. For their babies. But we don’t drink pig milk.”
Davionn – “What other animals make milk?”
Me – “All mammals make milk. That is one of the things that makes us mammals.”
Davionn – “Are chickens mammals?”
Me – “Nope. They are birds.”
Contemplates this new information.
Davionn – “Well that explains why chickens are pigs’ minions.”
Me – *while laughing* “What?”
Davionn – *Very matter of fact* “Yeah! Bacon is the master of the universe.”
Just further proof that I NEVER know where a conversation with these littles is going to lead me.
All hail Bacon.
Pennies for a Picture
Pennies for a Picture
Do you have great photos, have seen an incredible image in a magazine, or have a special newspaper article that you’d like to turn into a work of art, to display in your home, but custom framing and canvas prints are just too expensive?
Why not decoupage them onto canvas for literally pennies a print?!
The BEST Play Dough
Party Pancakes
Party Pancakes
A family favorite in our home is German Pancakes. Quite simply, they are crepes, but the batter is mixed just slightly thicker than traditional crepe batter. This particular variation on the recipe is a fun way to brighten a grey morning, or surprise your birthday boy or girl, with a warm, festive breakfast.
Ingredients: 
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Nanu Nanu
July 12, 2013
Kaydenc – “Mommy, can I go upstairs and watch TV in your room?”
Me – “The TV is on downstairs.”
Kaydenc – “Yeah, but the ‘kids’ won’t let me watch the Travel Channel.”
Me – *stunned silence*
*From the living room*
Finnley – “Hey look, I’m sitting on my face like Bork!”
Kaydenc – *sighs* “LIKE MORK!”, “My brain needs a break, I’m going to go watch the caterpillars in my room.”
I think this rainy Friday needs to be a silly, creative, play day! It’s time to channel our family FUN!
The Ox-est Truth
May 10, 2013
I was carrying a cooler and a few other items to the house when Finnley ran to my aid.
Finnley – “Mom, I can carry that for you… I’m as strong as an ox!”
Me – “Thanks buddy, so an Ox is pretty strong?”
Finnley – “Yeah, I’ve heard people say that.”
*as I hand him what I’m sure he can carry*
Me – “Are you sure everything people say is true?”
Finnley *thinks for a second* “Well, no… but I can’t think of any reason someone would lie about an ox.”
Haha. Oh, how I love this kid’s logic.
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