Love,
Mom

{Hunter took this picture!}

(She was talking about a friend)

Mikayla: I don't know why she likes boys.
Sometimes I do.
Me: Oh, yeah? Like when?
Mikayla: Um, like sometimes in the Winter time I like boys.
Like Santa Clause...because he's a boy.

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Just chillin' in the car, waiting for pizza:

Mikayla: Hunter...do you want to get married when you grow up?
Hunter: Nope.

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Again, the kids are sitting in their carseats. It was quiet for awhile then out of nowhere:

Hunter: Tikatikabababatika.
Mikayla: Uh, huh. Yep!

(Glad, someone understands him!)

Digital Scrapbooking

My sister is putting together a website that will help people with digital scrapbooking. After talking about it with her, I looked at some of my old layouts.

One of these days I'll get more time to devote to scrapbooking...but for now I'm busy drawing pictures on the porch with sidewalk chalk ;)

“I don’t think the problem has much to do with the innate ability to initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve only had these doors open wide for a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copy edit the world, not to design it.
There's a huge shortage... a shortage of people who will say go.”
-Seth Godin

"Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you."
-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Maybe you feel like your voice, your story or your idea isn't good enough. Putting yourself, your true self, out there for others to see, to judge, takes courage.

You can stay safely hidden away, never knowing what could have been gained or you can take a chance. You will be sure to feel the sting of critics, and yet you'll gain more than you could ever imagine.

If it's something that makes you truly happy, then it's not a waste of time.



Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Bernard Edmonds
To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.


Louis E. Boone
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.


Rancid
That feeling isn't fear, it's just telling you to MOVE!!