February 2012
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Window-shopped at Target today
and made a mental list of what i’d like for my birthday… which is still a handful of months away:
- a waffle iron
- the Giada’s stoneware baking set
- a ceramic/cast iron teapot
- a year’s supply of Mr. Meyer’s Lavender handsoap
this list is not exhaustive.
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Breaking Dawn *spoiler alert*
just finished watching the first installment of Breaking Dawn.
hubs was fast asleep before the movie started. he really wasn’t joking that he was gonna sleep early when i told him i got Breaking Dawn (instead of Hugo - hey, they were out! albeit conveniently for me, teehee!).
anywhos… Breaking Dawn was the only book from the series that i actually purchased. i had borrowed the rest...
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new music
GOOD MORNING!!!
I am seriously obsessed with Beckah Shae right now. I tweeted about it, facebooked about it, so now I just *have to* tumblr about it, ya know? ;)
Heard her “Here In This Moment” song - which is a few years old - over the local Christian radio the other day and I’ve been looking up her music ever since!
She reminds me of Sade (only hipper) and Joss Stone (but...
The Fresh Prince Created...
kicksandgiggles:
positivelypersistentteach:
jadeham13:
The Cat Daddy:
The Shuffle:
The Single Ladies Dance:
The Stanky Leg:
The Cyclone:
The Dougie:
Bless this post.
<3
Haha! OH YES!
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dear america, re: Jeremy Lin →
mizmlee:
allthatremainsislauren:
Dear America,
I’m sending you a plea on behalf of all Asian Americans. I know you’re caught up in Linsanity just like we are. It’s a beautiful thing to watch you gaze with jaws dropped at the exploits of the first Asian American marquee player in NBA history. But we really need this to continue, so it’s very important that you let us help you learn how not...
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What Your 1st Grader Needs To Know by E. D. Hirsch
I picked up that book YEARS ago, during a book purging at one of the schools I was student teaching at.
I remember picking it up and thinking to myself, I might have use of this. I might teach 1st grade… I might have children someday, who would benefit from me reading from this book…
Fast forward to the present, 6 years later:
Last night, I read aloud The Boy Who Cried Wolf...
Follow-up to the last question: What book got you...
fuckyeahreading:
The Gateway question!
Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree is my earliest memory of a chapter book I enjoyed. I was 5 or 6 years old then. Roald Dahl’s Matilda got me on a mission to read the whole [Children’s] library down. :)
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uuuuuupdate! ... well, sorta.
I feel like an old woman.
I’m only 31.
Nevertheles [love that word!], while bending down to wipe my son’s butt after he pooped, I felt something POP in my spine, and all of a sudden I couldn’t bend down anymore without feeling EXCRUCIATING pain.
I mean, I was just *bending*, not lifting anything heavy - just bending! It boggles me.
I’m used to being the strong,...
fuckyeahreading!: Roald Dahl →
readingisthenewblack:
It’s no secret that I have a soft spot in my heart and specific shelf in my library for children’s writers. I felt that Roald Dahl was the perfect author for this post seeing as I’ve used one of his quotations to describe my blog. His words have always done for me what…
Matilda. James and the Giant Peach. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The Witches… Each...
The Lady Of The House: You Want to What...? →
ladyofthehouse:
[name] asked [tloth’s other tumblr]: 2012-02-16 13:26
Hey there - cool blog you got going! Hope you don’t mind if I use some of your content later down the road, great stuff. New follower, can you please follow me back?
Well… that’s disturbing. ”Use some of your…
Thank you! I just got the same EXACT message from my newest follower. And this response pretty...
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“Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in...”
– Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann (via wethefoxes)
I’ve read this before. Many years ago… Funny to come across this again. Still striking, after all these years.
“Soon enough, planes, trains, subways, and, yes, showers will offer the option of...”
– Scott Belsky on the extinction of deep thinking and sacred space (via curiositycounts)
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vomit debriefing
*this post may be too gross for most of you* [did i just rhyme the HECK out of that line (and this one??)] … it’s been a LONG day.
where to begin.
my lil 4 year old man was doing fine all morning today, considering that he’s been on albuterol/nebulizer 3x/day and prednisolone for about a week now. his asthmatic cough has gotten a bit junkier than before. but he was...
Sugar Hiiiiiiigh
Had wayyyy too much sugar today.
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O Valentine's
The day began with my 6 year old jumping out of bed and rushing off to put her red, heartsy shirt on.
“Happy Valentine’s, Mom!!!” she cried out, as I tried not to give her my morning pout.
The morning rush came and scurried by with a blink. I kept telling myself to take pics of the kids. But hey, I barely remember the feeding of both kids, getting them ready for school,...
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Hands
My hands are crying out for help.
Seriously.
Maybe because today I washed and dried four loads of laundry, cooked two dishes (oven baked tilapia and green bean soup), washed dishes, bathed my kiddos, brushed their teeths, washed my hands countless times… it’s rare in the day when my hands have NOT touched water.
I looked at my hands tonight, after putting the kids to sleep, and...
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Preppin' for Valentino
I went to the library today and snatched up five romantic-comedy-ish books.
FIVE.
Ya know, to read, for tomorrow!
…and to recover from reading Storm of Swords [Book 3 of The Game of Thrones series], which was kind of a bit horrific for me.
ad hoc salutis: The Code of Manhood. →
geoffhill:
set-apartgirl: by Eric Ludy When a man exhibits true honor and nobility, specific qualities will mark his life. They comprise a sacred code of honor. A man who lives by this code will be: Dead to self-interest, confident in battle.
Courageous under fire.
Trained for (spiritual) war….
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Currently
a long folding laundry session whilst catching up on:
American Idol
New Girl
Happy Endings
Revenge…
it’s been far too long since i watched TV.
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January 2012
79 posts
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WWF
Let’s play Words With Friends. My username is ‘heybonbon’.
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Two songs
And you know what?
I can’t get enough of these two songs:
Bruno Mars’ It Will Rain
Adele’s Set Fire To The Rain
Such beautiful and oh such perfectly sad songs!
But I just love cranking the radio all the way up when it comes through the air waves… and maybe shed a tear or two. :)
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Push Monday
So tired. All day long I was pushing myself hard [literally telling myself, “push, push, you can do this! just a little more! just a few minutes more!”]. O, to be faithful in the mundane but necessary tasks…
Today:
changed bedsheets,
4 loads of laundry,
washed, folded & put away half,
vacuumed bedrooms upstairs,
swept & vacuumed the whole first floor (20 minutes...