“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last is dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”
~ Fr. Alfred D’Souza

find inspiration in the little things

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert Anson Heinlein

Never let your correspondence fall behind.
-Abraham Lincoln

i hope to someday have a beautiful long shelf covered wall in my living room
and a huge chair and a end table that is big enough to sit with my husband and just love life and read from a book together

i want the world to spin around me while im standing still. i want to be swept off my feet. i want someone to miss me when i go. i want to be loved like in the movies. i want to have my disney princess ending. i want the sun to shine through my kisses.

this was at the gas station today and it made my smile.

i love when the sun sets

What you see isn’t what I see–

Love harder. Life is short, love is unbending, and no one knows what could happen next. Tell someone you love them today.

WANT

make something special everyday.

make everyday something special.

future babytots names.

Three names I'd LOVE to name my future children.

BRUCE (as in Springsteen)

THATCHER

ESTELLA (from the book "Great Expectations")

things that made me smile this week.

i took the following photos on my cellphone and had to share them with all of you because I loved them. They brought a smile to my face.
This is what was left of the paper after i used my cricut personal cutter to cut out little stars.
At McDonalds, I noticed my cup said this. I shall have to sign all my letters this way from now on...

Dare Greatly

It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while
DARING GREATLY
so that his place shall never be
with those timid souls
who know neither victory or defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

I like this quote

"I find a huge amount of reassurance in the hand-made and the homemade, in the rejection of perfection, and i take great comfort in the fact that there are still many domestic artists for whom the 'actual doing of the things is in itself a joy'"
-D.H. Lawrence