My Holiday Wishlist

Things I'd like to buy;
Things I can buy;
But won't.

1. Ugg Boots

2. se7en jeans

3. Burberry scarf


4. Coach bag

Cute

♥Debbie and ♥Sandy

Might have two happy children. Intend to take long walks on Saturdays. Celebrate good times.

Orchestrated by ianiceboy

♥♥Happy Birthday♥♥

Your birthday is a chance to say

I am so proud of who you are.

No matter what your age may be

You are my treasured, tiny star.

I love you.

Whatever Danielle Wants, Danielle Gets

I ♥ Danielle

It's the eve of my one and only daughter's birthday. She's turning three tomorrow and all she wants is "a pink balloon and a pink cake". We rented a pink princess castle moon bouncer as a surprise. Not a really big party though, just a simple celebration with relatives, and about three kids.

But the weather's not getting any better. For the past week it was fine until today and unfortunately tomorrow. Forecast shows some showers in the morning and afternoon. Sigh...so much for a perfect birthday party. It's all good, there's always next time. The look on her face when she sees the huge jumper on the backyard would have been priceless.

Sorry honey...mommy can't guarantee a sunny, warm weather on your birthday.

Girl-Next-Door Kind of Girl

"I come from a home where gravy is a beverage."
-- Erma Bombeck

The Girl Next Door is from a small town, a large family, or both. She still has a healthy dose of what people 'round these parts call "family values." She calls her grandparents every Sunday and she's got her mom on speed dial. The Girl Next Door likes an uncomplicated life filled with the simple pleasures of family, home, kids, and food. She may not actually live on a farm, but she tends to keep a menagerie. Asked to choose between a dog and a cat, she generally won't. What's a good guard dog without a mouser to keep it company? She is caring and warm, welcoming and friendly. Anybody in your office ever bring in chocolate chip cookies? You got yourself a Girl Next Door.

The defining characteristics of the Girl Next Door are simplicity and tradition. Simplicity means that, unlike the Academic Girl, she's really not that interested in the great questions that keep philosophers up at night. When she can sit in the kitchen, drinking coffee, eating shortbread cookies with a friend, and listening to the cat purr on top of the radiator, what else is there to life? What else, indeed.

She Might Be a Girl Next Door if:

She drives: a good, solid American car -- a Ford Taurus, Chevy Cavalier, or Dodge Stratus.
She can talk for more than ten minutes about: her family's holiday traditions.
She begins her sentences with: "my mother says..."
She'd never: go to a rave.
She owns any of the following: scrapbooks, heirloom quilts, a Bible, family recipes, her grandmother's engagement ring.

Self-Evaluation

Reality Check

"When you realize that your life is important, valuable, precious, hard to get and easy to lose you will not idle it away. You will appreciate it more and use it to better purpose. You will not waste it by making yourself uselessly miserable or worrying too much about small things. If something goes wrong, then all right, it goes wrong, but you still have your life, which is very precious. If you understand this deeply, then even if you have nothing else, absolutely nothing except your life, you still have your most important possession."

- Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Whiskey River