“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
{ Because We’re Mortals }
Things To Love~
this very minute…
A little girl who loves patterns and fabric just like her mama.
Seeing some of the best toys in the world coming around a second time.
Finding a very special note–just for me–on my desk, from a cute little Chompy.
Getting very close to the end of a particularly favorite project.
Great big trees and teeny tiny girls.
Being asked to make the family favorite slippers…again, only this time, in blue.
A rainbow just appearing from out of nowhere.
Figuring out the REAL reason some kids love soccer.
For King and Country
When Dane and the Bald Kid were little fellows, their favorite toys on the face of the earth were these guys.
Oh, they took hours–sometimes all day–to set everything up…
and get everyone in their proper place, you know…
before the Vikings showed up…
and before the pirates attacked.
So this was a totally new experience for Miss Chompy…
sitting there minding her own business with her Duplo blocks and My Little Ponys…
to have this big, nutty guy swoop in with a fire breathing dragon and put all the calm creatures in terrible danger.
Ok, it’s getting personal now.
Pony Princess Celestia, meet Maid Marion.
Chompy watched intently to see how this knights-and-pirates-duking-it-out stuff actually works.
She didn’t know how she felt about all the sword swinging and painful sound effects, and pretend people dropping like flies…
and the limb lopping and…and…carnage. That just never happens in Ponyville. Is that a little plastic head I see over there?
Oh, run Chompy, run. These guys play too rough.
Wait…Miss Chompy–what are you doing? Miss Chompy?
“Dear King Arthur,
We regret to inform you that a giant two headed dragon ate your men. I hear he had a pretty little accomplice. Yeah, sorry about that.
There were no survivors.”
And Dane gets a million dollar fine for corrupting a perfectly decent 3-year-old.
Sheesh.
Girls’ Night
 So, with Beckham away, on his first Father and son’s camp out–Lily decided that she would be needing a girl’s night out. We all agreed.
Even the one boy who got to come.
Naturally, a million pounds of pizza was in order…
and doing girl-type stuff in the backyard that didn’t include monsters, zombies or bad guys. Just swinging and playing house and taking turns being “the mom.”
Then back inside to watch Pocahontas with it’s funny critters…
and magical love songs…
and lots of popcorn.
Next everyone chose their favorite color of toenail polish…
applied by Aunt April–
of course.
This was so much fun that the girls are trying to figure out how to get the guys to leave again someday very soon. It shouldn’t be too hard.
As long as we don’t tell them about the pizza.
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Hooray…
for itty, bitty baby kisses.
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