Wednesday night dog movie

Imagine running down the street with visions of guns, kidnapping, your partner lying hurt but you must go on to save the others...... and the music plays on. Yes Ladies and Gentlemen I forced the children to watch Benji last night on the square. It was a beautiful evening though! My best friend and Chelsi even dropped by to watch the last stirring scenes. It was re-colorized and looked much better than the video version we have here at home. Quayde said he even thought it wasn't too bad of a movie. And yes if you are wondering there really is a www.benjimovies.com

need feedback!

Okay obviously I am doing this next wedding for me since the bride and her mother just say " very nice" I spent a few hoours making this and would like feedback.

QOTD

Que sera, sera is a lovely song, but a lousy philosophy. Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished by anybody who met life with a shrug. Instead your motto should be "Que quiero sera" Whatever I will, will be.
Edwin C. Bliss

FFH concert

Chaiya and I had a blast tonight at the FFH concert! We had seats on the 4th row about 15 feet from the stage with no one in front of us. We danced, sang at the top of our lungs, clapped and got a total work out! I think we knew all the songs but 3 and two of them were off their new album. It was so fun to be in a crowd that truely enjoyed being there and was having a great time. This makes up for the lousy Point of Grace concert last year. I am so grateful that I have a teenager who loves God and isn't embarassed about having her mom with her... sharing music we both love.

Folk Dancing

Assuming. This is something that I rarely do, almost never. It usually brings about misunderstanding. Kind of a cardinal rule to never assume. So... when we went to the Square last night for our weekly new family activity night on the Square and the schedule said, " International Folk Dancers" I assumed. Wrong, of course.
Instead of some fantastic group of costumed dancers doing an incredible performance. We joined a crowd watching a group of incredibly in-shape and fit old people doing dances from all kinds of countries and having a really good time. Maliea joined in on the audience participation part and was not too bad herself. We ate bread , cheese and fruit...but no wine just water. Quayde and Lydia joined some other kids and played tag on the lawn and we laid on our blanket and really enjoyed the unique entertainment. I guess the dancers now have to share Wednesday evenings with the parks and rec movie night so every other week they will be there and we already know that the movies this summer are all dog movies. Next week is Benji and the kids are begging not to go. We are going anyway 'cause it will be fun to torture them.

Scary

My friend Judy sent me to this site! We are getting old. What is really scary is that Bananarama was cool once.

lydia's growing up

yes it's true Lydia is growing up! Look no front teeth! She lost them both and was very distressed until we explained the whole tooth fairy thing. Now she wants to go buy a Barbie laptop with her money!

relaxing is important too

Been reading "The Game of Life" by Florence Scovel Shinn. It's an excellent supreme book on how to change your life and manifest the things that you need and desire. I haven't read her other works but if they are any thing like this I will!
This week I had a huge list of things to accomplish and was feeling behind, so I made the choice to act as if I had plenty of time and relax. Michael and I went and walked the square on Wednesday night and watch part of the parks and rec. movie of the week, Lassie. It was breezy and beautiful. Yesterday I took a few hours off and enjoyed running around with the kids, we even went to the mall to listen to a band play . Today I worked after visiting with my best friend. It helped to keep everything in perspective and I got a great deal accomplished. I have a photo montage project, 5 weddings and prep for a surprise birthday party that I am currently working on. I still need to make proofs of invitations and create some floral arrangements for a ceremony but I have most of tomorrow to do that.
Thanks goes to Zack for being intuitive and buying me my favorite handmade soap!!!
I am liking the way the living room feels with my new furniture, the large sofa is less tall than our previous one and it lets the Chi flow much better through the room.
Off to work some more before bed. Been dreaming about Victorian style wedding decor. Have my new socks on without shoes :)

shifting

Things are shifting, after 10 years- on Tuesday morning....I painted my toenails pink!
Today I bought a pair of $8.00 socks, they are paisley and roses.
There is a snake living in my stove.
I manifested a very nice leather sofa, loveseat and 2 ottomans in the color teal.
It's going to be an interesting summer!

Thayne's first birthday

Here we go - before and after! He had a blast.

the new mother in law

Chaiya thinks we should buy this "beautiful" punch fountain for our wedding business and put a sign on it saying "your new mother in law"

Surgery

Lydia's trachea will not ever "out grow" the need for the trach tube. It's structurally wrong, deformed , what ever word describes it. So the only option is to do reconstructive surgery or keep the tube forever. We are going to wait a year before making any kind of decision because it's an extensive surgery that requires a long hospital visit and long recovery. I am feeling sad. There's a quote about the line between hope and despair being very thin. Nothing really has changed but in some ways everything has. This journey has been so hard and I am so very grateful for all the miracles and blessings but it doesn't ever take away that small part of my heart that grieves and remains in sorrow. She is so brave and so strong and so wonderful. (okay there's that orny part that shows up a little) The hard parts are when I can't fix it...when I can't make it all better, when she's in pain or struggling to breathe. So we plow on , through these brambles and thorns and try to find the path underneath that we can steady ourselves on.

QOTD

Conversation between Quayde and I at about 11:00pm last night with myself having very little sleep over the last several days......

Quayde: Mom, will you plug in my nightlight?
Me: Sure I will but I need to find it Quayde was playing with it earlier
Quayde: What?!
Me: Dad took it away from Quayde so it wouldn't get broke
Quayde: Mom...I don't understand
Me: Look it's simple. Quayde had your nightlight and Dad put it up somewhere so I have to find it. Quayde was playing with it and we didn't want it to get broken.
Quayde (speaking very slowly now to me): Mom are you saying I was playing with my nightlight???
Me (still not catching on): NO! I'm saying Quayde had it!!
Quayde: MOM I DON'T THINK YOU ARE OKAY!

After he said that we both cracked up laughing when I finally realized I had not been saying Thayne's name the whole time.

need more sleep

the year is what????

It is June! Amazing that the year is heading down to be half over. Summer is started, we are in the midst of relatives having a nice visit and Carrie my sister has probably already got most of her ideas for Christmas already formulated and planned. Unlike me. I got some new organza in a lovely shade of black, for a wedding in August and I am just excited about having work. One of my joys this morning was visiting with Kristi and relaxing in her new incredibly comfortable chair. I am taking each day and enjoying it. We went to Goldwater lake this afternoon and for the first time in awhile it really felt good walking around and having some energy. The fog that has been over me since Thayne's birth feels like it is lifting a little. It has been an incredible struggle. Not just emotionally but it has literally been a physical weight that some days has been really difficult to handle. So Lydia has surgery next week and then it is Thayne's birthday. I need to re-create that reality so this will be a happy postive month. On to a happy month and to a positive rest of the year.