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i bought the smallest bag. robin eggs are my fav. and now they are gone and that is out of the way. see ya. it was closing in on me.
next year, i hope you add september’s (indian lakes) to the list. they have a bleu cehsee-stuffed burger that is excellent. btw, i do hope to ping you once the weather gets nice to check out the stump smoker.~ carpetbagger Ooh, your craft room is looking good! Keeping things clean and organized can be a little hard, but when you see results like that, you can’t help but work hard to make sure that things are kept in such a state. Well, invest in ways to store some of that stuff later on to prevent an accumulation of clutter! Cleaning up our closets means cleaning the clutter and all stuff that are scattered. This is a routine that we have to maintain in order for us to be able to have the cleanliness that we deserve. hanks a lot for sharing your points of view with us. Keep up the good work You literally have the best craft room that I have ever seen. Please share where all of the inspiration came from. Is it things that you have been collecting over time? It looks like a room of things that you love. WOWEE…I am in awe of your craft room, it’s absolutely incredible! Love the room…so fun and filled with bits and pieces and it made me want to jump in there and get crafty. I can so relate, I have been trying to clean my bead table for a month, thanks for the incentive! I can’t even tell you how jealous I am of your craft room! I LOVE it! Even when it’s messy, I wish it were mine. Although that’s actually true of your whole house…I have looked at the pics of your house many times. 🙂 I have to admit – I covet your craft room. I LOVE it! It’s about the size of my living room, and my craft room is a table and a dresser in our dining room ha! But just looking at your pictures was the inspiration I needed to finish sewing my kids’ Easter outfits. I love how colorful and just packed to the gills your craft room is! It is bursting with creativity. After this post I just want to color, sew, stamp, cut, and glue! i just love your craft room. all the treasures and vintage goodies. all the light. and most of all, all the love!! That room makes me smile as I know that it does you too! Happy Easter. Love the room Meg! It looks just like your pillows. So fun and vintage looking. I am glad you enjoyed your trip and I have enjoyed your pictures. Will be back tomorrow! Thanks for the daily inspiration. Hi Meg! Being the 84th to comment, I doubt you’ll see this but I just had to say how much I LOVE your craft space and every wonderful, perky thing in it! The pictures of it alone are uplifting. You are such a creative gal and I know you inspire many, including me for sure! Hope you have a wonderful Easter! XO Ann Oh my goodness! Your chalkboard wall is gorgeous- I am so going to erase all my white words and add colored chalk!!!! Love it. Love the verse. The bird with a french fry poster is awesome! My daughter and I have a spot where we park and throw fries to pigeons; they land all over the car and we laugh until our bellies hurt. Weird dream! Speaking of weird dreams, my daughter woke up the other day and said, “Mommy, I dreamed you were feeding me washcloths for breakfast and I didn’t want them but you said don’t waste the food you made.” Wonder what that says about me? 😉 I sooooo LOVE your craft room! I need to make mine more colorful like yours, although is just a mini version, it could be a lot more inspiring. I’ll keep looking at your pictures and maybe I’ll get to it…when I have time. I totally get the not wanting to waste time sleeping 🙂 looks fantastic (once again)! good for you! Lovely room! If my spare space could look pretty instead of just junky I would indulge myself an area for crafting. You manage to impart that prettyness to your area. Meg, Where do you buy your pom pom trim? I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE your craft room. Love the happy colors, love the detail 🙂 I want to live in that craft room:) AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! If this is really your craft room, I am SO jealous! i want to spend all day long in there too!! Long time lurker…first time commenter! Can you come to Texas and make my house feel as fun and warm as yours? I bet when people walk into your home they feel the LOVE, I do from here. Great job! Yours is so colorful and fun. I just redid mine…you can see it at http://www.juliejohnsonblog.blogspot.com... yummy!!!! Meg, Great photos. So artistic. You have inspired me to finish up my craft room/office. LOL at your dream. I had a wierd dream where I was looking for a date for the prom……until I remembered, “oh wait, I’m married” where did that come from. have a great day. Ok. That’s it. I am getting in my car and driving over… AZ isn’t too far, right? LOL. Have a great day! Wow I LOVE your craft room…everything just looks so shabby chic and pretty! Wish I could come around and play : ) it is amazing how happy pom poms make me 🙂 I’m pretty sure we have the same cutting board 😉 And I was having weird dreams until a wild pack of dogs decided to wake us up at 1:30 am and scare the bejeeze out of us. I agree with what purejoy said. Simply lovely. I absolutely love it! It IS so happy! Love the stuff you added – so very cute! Someday. Someday I will have a craft space like this. I love it! Fun, Fun, Fun !!! I just love all the happy in your craft room — all the color is so inspiring. You have my dream craft room! I love it! Love your dream! 🙂 such a happy space – love it! and love the stack of fabric ready for pillows – ’cause i need your pillows! I simply adore this room – it’s fabulous! I’m also cracking up over your dream – priceless 🙂 Pretty darn sure your craft room is THE BEST i have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUV IT!!!!!!!!! Wowweeee 🙂 Great job!!! That room makes ME happy….and it’s not even mine….annnnd I can’t even sew 🙂 Simply FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!! Have a blessed Holy Thursday 🙂 awesomeness. pure awesomeness. that was fun! Beautiful and inspiring room! I often get discouraged that I have to go to sleep. There’s just so much I want to do. I guess that’s why kids don’t like to sleep. 🙂 I love EVERYTHING about your craft room… I feel so much better… Sure would love to come and play! give waffle a hug for me 🙂 heavenly!!!!!!!!!! what a lovely space to create in! I always find cleaning the craft room is so hard to find time for because it’s time I could be sewing, quilting or doing something creative! you’ve done a lovely job! A pocketful of sunshine, Meg. It’s so important to have a happy place to “escape” to far from the maddening crowd. Hello Megan. Your craft room is just de-lovely. I would want to play in there all night too. But sleep is important so, even with the strange dreams, it was probably the best choice 😉 LB x Lions and tigers and bears OH MY! I love it. I want one… it’s so happy! Enjoy! meggie it’s me again when i say i’d take the chandelier off your hands i mean i’d buy it$$ ok, 3 things: Are you selling these upcoming pillows on etsy?? I want a pillow so badly 🙂 what did you toss?? what?! i want it! meggie i’ll take the chandiler (sp) off your hands?? i cleaned today w/my daughter in law and you need sunglasses it so clean…. I have 3 of the little red/white polka dot boxes I spyed on top of a pile in one of the pics.. 50% off Vday clearance! I love them! I NEED one of those red/white polka dot bags hanging on your still needs to be painted door.. 🙂 Red and white polka dots are my favorite! oh I heart heart heart your special crafting space. such carefully placed INTERESTING and unique pieces. Mine is so bland and looks like it stepped out of a flat-packed store (because it has). I am inspired to go thrifting and paint some chalkboard paint on something! Love the hooks on the door. I also LOVE the littl red shelf. Too cute! LE SIGH! Oh I love love love your space! How fantastic! Where did you get the print that says “Today I will be happier than a bird with a french fry”? I love that! what a fun space! I’m in love….. I agree! You are SO far from white trash! Best place Evah. I still adore that white/green chippy cabinet with the pink felt flower thingys. And your verse. And your “I am here to serve with JOY”. Oh, and your dream. From one crazy dreamer to another – good one. 🙂 UUUMMM If I promise to pick up after myself can I come and live in your craft room? a happy happy place.. i loved my visit. lovely! Thanks for showing us. I have the exact same thoughts about having to sleep but unfortunately I’m not sleeping well these days at 8 1/2 months pregnant. 🙁 Kelly I wanna live in your craft room! I’ll help you make pillows! I was thinking to myself, I wish that I had a craft room like Meg’s. The funny thing is that I could have one–not a beautiful light-filled one (it’s in the basement) but I could MAKE IT NICE if I ever made the time to paint the drywall, to hang stuff up, to out in some storage and a couple of tables…IT’S UP TO ME. And I am inspired by your room. this looks like the perfect place to create something bright and fun! Love the chandelier. As much as I love to sleep, I too, wish I didn’t need to. It just takes up so much time! 🙂 Fun seeing the Snap on Tools holder in your pictures. You purchased that at my garage sale a couple of years ago. I orginally bought it at Round Top in Texas. Oh *sigh…. so lovely. i’m watching the clock waiting, just waiting for the play room to become my craft room. my kids are only 5 and 2 1/2 – i think i’m going to be watching the clock for a very, very long time. but it’ll be worth the wait when i get there! 🙂 have a wonderful weekend and easter!! I want your craft room;) It’s lovely. And you literally made me LAUGH OUT LOUD! I feel ya…I have so many things to sew and paint! When my hubby came home from work today and asked what we were having for dinner, I cheerfully replied, “leftovers”! (Cause, ya know, microwave=more time to craft!) He’s not as enthusiastic about that as I am…? Time to go all out and plug in the crock pot! 🙂 dude. i would never leave. i’d leave to go menus by the phone and tell my family to order carry out. i’d put in a cot. and a coffee maker. and a portapotty. seriously. never leave. i’d order in a basin of water and take sponge baths and open up windows when the stank of me got too bad. geesh. what a perfect room. it made me want to go thrifting. ohmyword. i was in heaven for just a second. ooooooh…house pics….you know how i feel about looking at your house. i’ll take any glimpse i can get. Cleaning a craft room is so fun. I love the rediscovery of goodness, the promise of crafts to come. Thank you so much for sharing your space. I cannot wait to have a craft room again! Yours is just beautiful and so cheery! Love it! So it is breaking a Ten Commandment to covet your neighbors wife….is it still breaking a commandment if you are coveting your online friend’s craft room? Just curious. Your creative space is so fun and colorful. I LOVE THAT CARD…a bird with a french fry. It just cracks me up:) i know it’s a sin, but I covet your craft room! this looks like such a fun place!!! thanks for sharing! It is a very happy place! Great room. So inspirational. I want one just like it 😉 Oh, it is just lovely! What a great room! Now, can you spare some time to come and help me clean my space? Yum! Makes me want to come play in your craft room! Love your chalkboard wall… especially the verse written on it. 🙂 That’s EXACTLY where we’re living right now. 🙂 Everything looks lovely. The black wooden Snap-On Tools box caught my eye. I was a Snap-on Tools distributor some twenty years ago. Still buy them and use them everyday at my business. Best mechanic’s tools you can get. Really enjoy your blog. Proud of you for going to Haiti, enjoyed the pictures. Oh Meg! Everything is just so lovely and happy. I want this room, actually I want your whole house. Or maybe just a sprinkle of whatever happy dust you use. Now you’ve got me longing for a craft room. Everything is so bright and cheery in there, and love the red lockers. Jackie when scott arrived in our home 11.5 years ago…the noise level changed. enjoy. (oh…also…he was deep into an EAGLES phase…he loved bald eagles!)
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Sir, aapne jo likha vo kaafi accha laga Mujhe bhi kahin ek pada hua sheir yaad aaya, kisne likha yeh toh Yaad nahin par alfaz kuch iss tarah ke hain sirf andaze bayan he har baat badal deita harnwiaa duniya mein koi baat, kabhi nayi baat nahin hoti .sir aapke anusaan , sab geetkaar faiz sahab ki chaya mein nahin dhoop mein hain aur dhoop ke tukdon ko apne geeton mein piro kar garmahat ka anand le rahe hain Shabdon ka hamesha ki tarah accha prayog, main aapke jaisa toh nahin likh sakta par aapka likha hua pad toh sakta hun aur jo accha lagey aapki taarif bhi kar sakta hun .Aaapne accha likha isiliye mujhe accha laga, sir aise he accha achha likhte rahiye aur hamein accha accha lagate rahiye all the best Please could you clarify plans for litocoan and operation of the Nursery/Pre-School at the Lytham site for next year.It has been mentioned that it would be brought into the current Junior school building. Will this be in a secure part of the building with controlled access, and will there be secure, private outdoor play provision ?Are there also plans to amend the current policy regarding utilisation of Early Years Vouchers ? Currently at KEQMS these are only applicable for the hours 1-4pm Mon-Fri, which is not particularly helpful for those not looking for daily schooling at that age. Acabo de encontrarme a mí mismo diciendo, yo no sé … Y el más joven les pide tan rápido que apenas llega a la primera pregunta responderé. Me alegra saber que no soy el único ser interrogado por aquí! Ok…So I;ve been reading your blog for 2 days now, and am totally hooked! I love the colors, I love your photography…but most of all I love your stories about your kids! I have 3 kids, 14, 13, 11…. And the 13 and 11 year old are Big question askers…Makes my head hurt! LOL! Now that they’re getting older the questions are getting harder, and somedays I just find myself saying, I dunno…And the youngest asks them so quick you barely get to anwser the first question. Glad to know I’m not the only one being questioned around here!! I’m trying to think of a word that’s beyond adorable…because that’s what this is!!! I lurk your blog ALL THE TIME, and I wanted to just say that this list (as well as most of your blog, really) has pretty much decided for me that when I have kids, I’m going to stay at home with them. I can’t imagine anyone else answering their questions about life, or forming their memories. Too funny! Thanks for the laugh! I’m going to try this one day. wowwwwwwwwwww… i thought it was just my grandkids. LOL! ♥ Hillarious! Wow, he really had a fascination with creatures, speed, size and height eh?! great idea, that was time well spent! So funny! My favorites: “Does Jesus have a skeleton?” and “Why are you ignoring me?” That is SO cute! What a great idea to write them down to remember. Why are you ignoring me? Too funny! That is hilarious! I always wished I would have taken the time to do something like that. Too cute. It sounds like a 6 year old I know. And I am so guilty of tuning him out- good for you for writing it all down. Whew! hahahahahaha! Ours was the same way. Where does God go on vacation? Who is in charge when God is on vacation? He also tends to pair up fighting partners. “If Superman and Batman fought the Incrediable Hulk and Spiderman……” Oh my word you have the BEST ideas! 🙂 How smart to copy this all down! I love it! That is the sweetest, funniest thing I have read in a long time! How awesome that you wrote all those down. And seriously, there were some good questions in there. I’m not sure how I would have answered some of them ha! My 5 year old asked me if pigs have belly buttons, and I had to look it up. My 5 year old also says that God “picks you up and carries you to Heaven” when you die – I LOVE that. How neat that Scott said the same thing. That is just plain awesome. So great that you have that! Did you attempt to answer them all at the time! That is a fun and good idea to write all the questions down. I bet at the end of the two weeks you couldn’t believe how many there were! I am seriously nearly hyperventialiting reading this list! I’m not sure I’d be able to cope!! I love the question of “Are bad guys real?”, since we’ve been studying in philosophy that people who do bad things are less ‘real’ and people who do good things are more ‘real’ (and God is the ultimate reality, because he is the ultimate good). Oh my goodness…you are soooo good to have written that down! How priceless! WOW!!!!! my little guy just turned five and all he seems to want to do is build legos and sing Dancing Queen 🙂 Your Scott is going to do BIG things!!!!!!! I love this list…aren’t you sooo glad you kept a log….mainly to remind yourself you CAN endure through a lot of things 😉 im doing this. Oh my gosh – my husband and I just laughed so hard!! My favorite is “Why are you ignoring me??” Digby is going to be the same way…. That was extremely entertaining! Loved it! Glad you shared 🙂 I love that!!! hilarious!!!! What a cutie. I LOVE five year old boys! 🙂 (Mine is six and he still jabbers on and on… I kinda love it too.) 🙂 I love it. We’re right there with stuff like this, too, and I also scribble down their questions and comments. Here’s one I think you might enjoy: on Monday night, the kids and I were talking about Easter. Our six-year-old daughter asked why Jesus was in the tomb for three (versus one, or two, etc.) days. Our eight-year-old son immediately piped up with (and I quote): “there was probably a lot of paperwork involved with resurrection”. This is such a wonderful post I love it. I think I will write things down from my 7 year old. Our daughter who is 24 when she was a little she would allways stare at the graveyard when we would go to the store and I asked her what she was looking at and she said that she was looking for people who who flying up to heaven but never could see it. I will never forget. Kids are sooo precious. a great laugh for me… over and over! hilarity :))) I don’t normally comment on your posts but I do read your blog regularly. I did however want to comment on this one. My daughter just turned 3 months old already, and its bittersweet. I cant wait till she grows up to see how successful she’ll be in life, but I want her to stay small forever. I think it was wonderful and a great idea to write down everything. Thank you for sharing your life with us all and your family memories. I love it! Those questions are the best. I was so that child. . . I asked a lot of ‘what if’ questions. . . I remember my mom grounding me from asking ‘what if’ for one day. Love that you wrote them all down. Now I want to see all your answers? 🙂 our “why’s” have turned in to “did you know…” and still they are non stop! Precious!!! I need to do that notebook thing! Nate is six and cracking me up EVERY day. How cute!! You’re a good Momma to write those all down. I think I would’ve been hollering, “I DON’T KNOW!!!” by the time we got to the 4th question. whew. My kids seem to ask a lot of questions too and I find myself only half listening/half answering or chastising them for “interrupting my thinking”! I am ashamed to call myself a homeschooling Mom! LOL! ohmystars! how cute is that? i hope he’s still inquisitive. and not only would it be exhausting to hear all of those questions, but writing them all down must have been really, really tiring! Very sweet. How nice that you wrote down all those questions! I have two boys, so I can relate to some of those questions ~ real boy questions, and things my girls would never think of! So funny! I love it. I think every Friday you should post some of your answers to those. 🙂 My son is fixing to turn 16 yrs. old and I forgot how much kids talk. Those were cute but I would have gone crazy answering all of them:) Maybe that is why I only have 1 kid:) That brought back sweet memories. ahhhhhh im dying. that is hilarious!!! HILARIOUS! Also so endearing! How I wish I would have kept more information like that on my children. Sigh. BTW- I’m still asking some of those questions! oh my goodness!!!! i can soooooo relate!!! although you are WWWAAAAYYYYYY more patient then i am!!! by 9:30 this morning i was already going bonkers by my 3 year old’s questions!! i need to start writing them down so that i can get a laugh out of it in a few years….so funny! Meg, I read two of these lists to my class of 7th graders. We laughed HARD! Thanks for sharing the questions! I have something similar….wish I’d written every.single.thing. down….it does go so fast… That was so sweet. love, Love, LOVE the stage of questions! This is GREAT! I was able to not laugh out loud until I reached the “penis” part. What’s even funnier is that I just asked Pam the same question last week. (BTW, I’m glad that girls don’t have penis’s) This is hilarious! My nearly 3 year old is just beginning to ask a lot of questions and I love the idea of writing down some of the questions, to be able to look back and see what her little mind was thinking. Why didn’t you post the answer to all of those questions??? Wow!!! I better do my research before my little one starts to talk. LOL!!! My son recently turned 6 and has been talking non-stop since he was about 20 months old! He talked super well at such an early age and hasn’t stopped yet. I love that you’ve written his questions down! What great memories you’re creating! Oh this brings back some good memories. My oldest son went through a similar stage when he was 3. I wish I would have written down some of his questions. thanks for sharing. this is so cute! what a good idea. It is sooo cool that you wrote thsoe down!! WOW HAHA that reminds me of when my brother was 5, and i was 12… i was like Mum!! tell him to shut up please, i cant cant take any more… That’s so cute! My daughter just turned 5 and I should do something similar for her, but with her, she makes STATEMENTS because, well, I guess she has all the answers 🙂 my son is just like this. I had to answer about 27 questions just while i was reading this! love it 🙂 That is hysterical, and priceless! My daughter is the same…and she always expects a response…my mindless mommy “umm hmmmm’s” just don’t cut it. Haa! how did you answer some of those???? Hysterical! Reminds me of my son at that age. He talked nonstop and asked so many questions I used to beg him to stop, just for five minutes. Now he’s 17 and I wish he’d talk more! My favorite: “Why do I have to do all the work around here???” Ha ha! I should do this. Ginny’s list would be very heavily weighted on the “Can you read me a book?” side. Cute post. 🙂 This is hilarious! I have a 4 year old who could be his match!! I miss those days! My youngest is 7 going on 40 :o) Cute! I keep records like that of my oldest 2, too. (The baby thankfully does not talk yet!). I have a recurring post on my blog called Conversations with Olivia, she is 4 and really has so doosies! 🙂 love this…so much like my son…thanks Meg for a morning smile:) I’m laughing And feeling really ashamed…how great that you thought of writing it all down!!! I find myself getting completely exasperated by my sons’ constant questions! I’m going to have to try and write them down instead 🙂 oh. my. goodness!!!! I don’t know how you answered all of those questions, or maybe you had “selective” hearing, like I sometimes do! My favorites were – why does Dad look old, why does your skin look old? Oh to be 5 years old! HILARIOUS!!! He sounds like a HOOT. So very cute. wow!!! that is so funny 🙂 omg that’s hilarious! did you answer all those questions? or did he just keep asking new ones that you didn’t have to? i would have to have spent a lot of time on google! that’s so awesome that you wrote them all down. Last fall during wheat harvest my 8 year old wanted to know if my arms got tired when I was young using that big knife to harvest wheat when we lived on a farm. How old does he think that I am???? I have an 8, 6, 4, and almost 2 year old. Most days I love the conversation! Glad to know that mine aren’t the only inquisitive ones! Holy Cow! That is alot of questions!!! I love that, I recently read somewhere what the crazy number of questions an average preschooler asks is, wish I could find that. I just remember thinking, “no wonder my brain is fried at the end of a day.” My favorite question Scott asked was, “Does God have a penis?” hilarious That list is exhausting but adorable. The best were “Why is it my birthday?” “Can a wasp kill a dog?” “Do you think squirrels are sneakier than cheetahs?” the one about sharks he answered himself and the ones about age. Ha! That’s adorable! And what a good idea to write this all down! I always think I’ll remember those little gems, but as days turn into years, some of those sweet little memories fade. I may do this for my toddler at some point. I have a five-year-old boy now and I can relate to this list! I also have a four-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl – our house is buzzing with similar questions. I am loving their incessant curiosity now – I know it will get damped down or stuffed down later, which is sad. Although it must also be more peaceful, LOL! haha! i love it!! this is such an awesome memory to look back on and it reminds me so much of my meghan! sometimes i can barely get a word in just to answer!! Oh dear. Scott is Calvin. I need to start keeping this list. What a fun thing to look back on! My favorite was “Why don’t libraries have trophies?” this is such a man list! constantly trying to understand who’s the biggest and strongest creature out there…and then how could that big, strong creature be killed? my boy is five now, and i recognize many of the same kinds of questions! i love that you wrote them all down. Oh my too funny, you have to save that for his scrapbook. I’m exhausted just reading the list! So cute! My brain hurt trying to imagine all my possible answers to his questions! My son’s only three, so I guess I have one or two years to prepare. How truly wonderful to have such a curious boy! Bless your heart Meg! You must have been exhausted every day when he was 5! How sweet! I can totally relate. My son is 7 now, but I remember reading a statistic when he was 5 that said kids that age ask upwards of 500 questions a day. Having lived through that, I’m fairly certain it’s true. I am laughing b/c my daughter recently phased into the “ask a million questions and talk incessantly” stage. I can’t even read all of Scott’s cute questions right now b/c my brain is so full of little girl chatter! I love your idea of writing it down ~ funny memories!
i love that! the chair! i want the chair! i mean, you really can’t carry it with your bag… can you? LOL! ♥ I have been wanting to order a bag since you posted a while back about a bag you had from her:) I actually did order a camera sleeve for a friend of mine and she loves it! love it! I wonder if one of her bags would work well for a diaper bag?! Kelly I love Elisalou’s bags. I have a big one in some cute pink fabric and it carries everything. oh, cute! Im into bags too, its a sicknes!! I love the colors in this one, and isnt it funny that we notice the chair too, lol!! xoxo LA Beautiful bag, but are you kidding me….your bag is that organized! And it stays that way??? Oh, wow. That bag is drool-worthy!! Oh so cute 🙂 Headed over there right now 😉 I can’t resist a new bag 😉 I love the bag. The fabric is awesome. I just made my daughter a dress out of the same fabric. Check it out: http://livingchangerously.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-just-cant-do-straight-lines.html Thank you for this site! LOVE her bags! I LOVE my Elisalou bag. Very well made and sturdy, and super duper cute. I am going to ask for a second one for my birthday next month. LOVE this bag! Off to shop! 🙂 ooh I love that bag!! I follow her blog too! Love the bag – reminds me of Orla Kiely bags. Its delightful and yes looks good from every angle, with or without pink chair in support. LB Love it! How great for spring! The colors are fantastic! Thats the size I need. Big enough but not too big! Thanks Meg- you are soooo sweet. I need that chair for my photos! Do you have to carry the chair with you too! HEE HEE… I love it 🙂 Happy monday Megan.
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I hear ya on the couch, I have one that is perfect for me as well. Have a great weekend with your family and I’ll do the same. All of the colors just make me happy. So fun. So chill. cupcakes do wonders, don’t they? I just want to tell you what a great eye you have for making the normal look spectacular! Always enjoy your pictures! And I really love that couch – it looks way comfortable! On my blog I have this fun art site: Deep Space Sparkles…maybe you know it…if not, go check it out. It’s lots of fun! I am reading that book right now! It is great, I am so enjoying it. What a perfect “normal” day. Cupcakes, happy music, books, and creating! You just made me SO hungry for cupcakes…. Wonderful capture of your day. It looked sooo happy. I think I have those boots! And never once have I thought of wearing them with a denim skirt and striped knee socks. I’m totally inspired. Love it! OK. I have got to get me some boots, knee socks and….well my skirt would have to be down to my cankles, I mean ankles. I need to start fighting the forties frumps. Thanks for a little kick in the pants. Have a great weekend. Hey, and at least you are working at the no sugar thing, I’m just reading about others doing it. I suppose therein lies the correlation to the cankles : ) With a day like that….your weekend has got to be fabulous… Loved the boots and the socks best of all… CUTE and fun… can’t beat that combo. Great playlist! LOVE your playlist!! Hope you enjoy your Craig time. 🙂 Okay….TOTALLLLLY just went back of the play list…how did I MISS Dancing Queen??????? Okay, now I know they (Jake and Annie) are soul mates 😉 heeee heeeee 🙂 I’m lovin’ those socks of yours!!! And I have been fighting the sugar craving HARD this week!!!! I wanted to LICK my computer screen when I saw your cupcakes 😉 And wow! You look so philosophical laying there reading…I only read magazines ;( I’m trying though….and might I recommend a little ABBA on your playlist….I can sooooo hear Annie singing Dancing Queen 🙂 It’s my Jake’s FAVORITE. When he gets home from pre-k….he asks to watch “that movie about the dancing queen!!!” Happy weekending with your sweet family 🙂 I feel the same way about my hubby. After 19 yrs. together I still greet him at the door every evening and dip his supper for him. Love your playlist! Some of my favorite songs made it 🙂 Love the playlist. I never comment (even though I should!), but your taste in music is awesome. 🙂 What a great day. Great playlist as well:)…Thanks for being my favorite. Be Ok, is one of my favorites! Love your playlist. I am in love with your playlist! Nice socks Mrs. M. so, can i just come and hang out at your house for the day? Meg, you are SERIOUSLY the COOLEST! I LOVE your blog! You make ordinary days/moments so fun and memorable for your kids – I wanna be like YOU! I’m adding some of your tunes to my playlist. Your post has turned my BLEK morning into HAPPINESS! Have a FABULOUS weekend! I’m sure the iTunes division of Apple will be sending you a thank you card soon. I just spent a small fortune on songs thanks to your wonderful suggestions! I am reading that book right now and LOVE it! Francis Chan is amazing. Also – thanks for the playlist – I am going to have to check some of those out. Sounds like a fun day. HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE :D. Hope you all have a great weekend… I love that playlist! Very similar to a mix CD I made for friend. This was a great blog to read for a little cheer after looking at the local news. Thanks for all the vivacious pictures! =) Sounds like the perfect end to an awesome week … cupcakes, color, music and family! thanks for making ME smile too Meg… sounds like a good day to me! i too look forward to our weekends together 🙂 take care, susan I love how you make ordinary things look fabulous! Happy Friday to you too!! I dig your socks. And Calvin asked “Who’s that?” so I finally got to tell him all about Annie and how she doesn’t mix up all of her watercolors into a big puddle of brown. 😉 Pretty pics as always. Judging by that playlist, you must have been an XRT fan when you lived in Chicago! Sweet pics Meg. Love your funky socks. Have a great weekend. will you be my mom?? youre the coolest!! Enjoy your day with your boyfriend:-) i need to get francis chan’s new book…thanks for that reminder i think that’s a great book! i’m still in the process of reading crazy love. Happy Friday is RIGHT!! I want to see YOUR painting and your boots rock! That is so funny…my husband is Craig and my entire family calls him Craiggers. Fridays are definitely the best! I am already loving it! Love Annie’s outfit too…and those cupcakes look REALLY good. 🙂 I am so glad it is Friday too! Happy Day to you and many many blessings!
she was beautiful and relaxed. best wishes in college….have a blast chelsea! this is my favorite photoshoot you’ve done–I think it must show a lot about her personality. such a beautiful young woman! she has taylor swift hair. i’m jealous. She’s beautiful 🙂 Ohhhh the days when we had the time to spend hours on our hair 🙂 Her’s is TO.DIE.FOR beautiful 🙂 great photos. great hair. what a doll! oh those curls! Kelly She’s so pretty! Lovely photos of a lovely subject. I WANT that hair! It would be perfect with my Renaissance costumes! And where were you when I was a senior? You could have photographed me! Awesome pics, Meg! Do you have any idea where she got that off-the-shoulder shirt? I absolutely love it, I’ve never seen one like that before. Thanks for sharing your talents with us 🙂 after seeing these pictures….i want to be a senior again. *sigh* These are SO good! Your best yet, which is saying a whole heck of a lot since your pics are awesome all the time. It is just me or do seniors these days look so much more grown up? I think I looked like a baby in my senior pictures. She is gorgeous and you did an excellent job capturing that! love the one in her cheerleading/dance uniform. love it! i wish i had curls so badly.. the 3rd one is my FAVE! Her hair IS gorgeous!!! My little girl has a head full of curly hair and I hope it ends up looking like this as she gets older. She is beautiful…and you are correct, she has GREAT hair! love the 6th shot of the black and white close up… cool It’s CHELSEA!!! I love her!! 😉 You did such a great job on these…and her hair IS beautiful…EVERYDAY! Great photo shoot!!! Love her hair! What fun photos. Hello….I think I need that hair!!!! Great photos!! loving kari's slideshow she made…. i miss africa. but what do i do with that?
Tonight my kids were bickering. Over who got a bigger section of corn dog when I split it in half (after they already had a FULL meal). I was angry. I grabbed my computer. Had them gather around and told them not to talk. Just to look. I showed them the slide show and the pictures. I explained about the kids in the picture. Do you think they have corn dogs to fight over? Tears rolled down my 9 year olds face. She got it. At least for that moment. I will take that. Thank you! meg! Your trip must’ve been amazing and affected in your heart in so many ways…I know what you can do…! Make more pillows, I missed the whole thing because I found you too late…I’ll buy them, lots of them and you can go back to Africa! Come visit me at my blog, http://www.thisandthatcreations.blogspot.com Very moving. I would not have seen any of that if it weren’t for you and your blog. Please don’t think that being back home means you can’t affect change in others. Your photos and descriptions and emotions are a wonderful way to communicate the experience in ways that will touch a privileged person sitting in her pajamas at her computer in her comfortable western home. Thank you for sharing this. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I spent every summer during high school doing mission trips, mainly in Haiti but I did spend one summer in Brazil. It’s tough to come back. It’s tough to come back even when you know what to expect. It’s tough to adjust to the little things like how fast the cars on the highway are and all the options in the grocery store, much less the big things like reconciling a spoiled American life with your new global awareness about poverty. (incidentally, it’s really hard to fit in with teenagers when your “what I did this summer” is about orphans and HIV and theirs is about the beach and parties) I’m crying because it is so beautiful! God is so present, we are his servants and he is so here. I remember my daughter when she got home from her first mission trip to Haiti getting out of the car from the airport and the tears were streaming down her face, she kept saying Mom I didn’t want to leave them! We hugged for a long long time, my heart broke for her. She was forever changed after that trip. Sorry you are so emotional right now. I think it’s a blessing in disguise. God is revealing a call He has on your life. Who knew something you were so fearful of would turn into such a blessing for you and those you met. I’m sure your future will hold many such trips. Blessed indeed! You fit in right where you always did. At home. You have 5 children and a husband that depend on you. Yes it is a wonderful thing to be able to go on a mission trip and help those less fortunate and now knowing that the need is there you feel like how can you not continue to help them. But what you need to realize though, is that you didn’t need to travel half a world away to do this work. I can almost guarantee you that there is need right in your own backyard in Kansas. Focus on that – helping those who need help right in your area. They may not appear as dirt poor as those in Africa but we have starving children right here in the US. They may even be attending school right along side your children. We have families that are a blink of an eye away from being homeless. We have orphans, sick, poor. Help them. They need the help too, and by doing that you are still doing God’s work. As much as you would like to, you can’t save the whole world, but you can help in your own little patch of earth. If everyone did that the world would be a much better place. Use this energy and knowledge you have from your trip to better your own community. I wish you well. You have a big heart and will figure it all out. check out Dangerous Surrender by Kay Warren (Rick Warren’s wife) She talks a lot about the struggle to adjust to life back home after experiencing Africa. http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Surrender-What-Happens-When/dp/0310258901/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269473413&sr=8-1 You fit squarely into both worlds, Meg. Your joy and generosity is reflected in both. You can’t physically be in two places at once, but your heart, your prayers and your focus can. You’re a woman don’t forget….we’re famous for multi-tasking. Meredy xo. thanks for posting that touching video. it help me pause my day’s activities and relish the wonderfully touching pictures. Well of course, I started crying almost immediately… wish I could shut off the water works sometimes… beyond your blog, have you been journaling at all? that might be a good outlet to get all these emotions out, and it will be a great piece of memorabilia of your trip to look back on later. God knows where you should be meg, wow- I’m crying just watching this. What a beautiful expression of the love of Christ. I imagine it was a life altering experience. My heart is heavy for Africa too… I love what jeanne said above. Let it change your days… Meg, ugh! i’ve watched it over and over…so productive. 🙂 Use what you learned to help others! It took one woman to get you to go on that trip. Be that woman to someone else. Sign up for the next trip and convince someone to go! Share the mission trip love 🙂 I still to this day think about the wonderful and amazing people that I met in Africa, their hardships, their souls, their trusting nature and amazing smiles. They taught me that its the little things that make you happy. There isn’t much (unfortunately) you can do about the way you feel only to let time pass and it will get easier to live each day. Take care 🙂 Thank you for sharing this video with us. I can see why you have such mixed emotions and feelings after such a trip. I understand, too. We went to Africa 5 1/2 years ago, and there still isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about that trip. It has changed us. I’m sure it’s changed you! We live differently, spend our money differently, and look at life differently because we went. It is hard to reconcile that view of life with what we see everyday. Breathe it in. It has already changed you…now change others right around you. Let it change your days, how you love, who you love, how you parent, how you give, how you tell others of Christ. There are needy and poor right around you! God is going to do BIG things through you…you have the heart for it. Love you!!!! Gosh, everyone is giving you such great advice. I love to read the wisdom being shared with you. I have not been on a trip like this in my life; however, I was in the social work field for six years in the private sector and I have seen severe poverty before where the norm was roaches crawling all over everything and rats just hanging around. It was hard to come home at night to my clean nice things and wonder what in the world am I doing in this wasteful world. I have a weak stomach and I didn’t want to become ill in front of the children because I didn’t want them to feel embarrassed. All of that being said when opportunities in our life present itself we can choose different paths. Please be patient with yourself and allow yourself to just feel…I know it feels hard and lonely, but you can do it! Just sit with it and ask God for clarity as what you should do with this new found experience. It is overwhelming and please know that it’s alright and normal, but in order to get clarity (see the light if you will) you have to go through the darkness. I always think of it as a season of spring time in my life like a tulip bulb that has been in the dark part of the earth all alone just waiting patiently for the right time to shine is beauty upon us. Hang in there and treat yourself lovingly. Seriously…I’m LOVIN’ the little boy in the green standing up with his arms crossed while he’s praying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man! BEAUTIFUL!!!! Every.second. Peace be with them all 🙂 Wow…..I can’t make the tears stop! I can’t even imagine how one must process all that you saw over there but God Bless you for all that you did while you were there and that you continue to do back at home. I know my eyes have been opened because of you! I imagine it must be tough! You could continue to live your life just as you did before you went. . .But you did go. So how do you now live your life in a way that reflects the world that you discovered on this trip. i know what you mean. i have been to china three times and each time, coming home is so hard. like okay, God, i saw what you wanted me to see and experienced what you wanted me to experience, but now what do i do with that? it’s so hard to go on as usual after a missions trip. i found the best i could do is keep those i met in prayer and to change my life for the good because of some of the things i learned on the trip. when i went to romania, i came away from that trip deeply humbled…one of the many lessons i learned was to not save anything “for good”, enjoy the things you have with those you love everyday, share what you have and don’t hold onto anything for another day. the gypsies i met on that trip changed my life…i still think about them a lot. that probably makes no sense…but its the best advice i can offer…in other words…don’t go on unchanged by what you experienced. 🙂 |
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Courtney Walsh - I’m not sure why I decided it would be a good idea to try and go on a sugar fast the day after Easter. I am weak too…and the kids’ robin eggs and cadbury mini eggs are calling my name from behind the cupboard door in the kitchen!!
Michelle Whitlow - I loooove Robin eggs. They’re my fave, too!! Every time one of my kids gets one, they say “it’s your favorite mommy!” That and Cadbury eggs….
Tara Caspar - Omi… I LOVE the Robin eggs. They are my favorite of all Easter candy! I get the “mini” ones so I can have one yummy bite, and they last longer. Or at least that’s what I tell myself. 🙂 It’s Easter, enjoy!
Kristi - Mine are the Cadbury Mini Eggs. I bought a bag for my daughter’s Easter basket, but it’s ok because the only other candy I got for her were Peeps, and I HATE those. Did you know they actually have a cookbook out for Peeps???
Kathryn Goertzen - I did the SAME thing . . . smallest bag possible . . . malted milk eggs . . . ate the whole bag . . . before I got home!! (I do live several miles out in the country)
Leigh - Robin eggs are the best!!! Now I’m really craving them…
Melanie - I am trying to cut back on sugar but it is hard. I haven’t had a coke in about a week but it is calling me tonight and I am giving in:(
Happy Easter.
Heather - Oh, how this post made me laugh!
Way too close to home 🙂
Trish - i did the same thing with peanut butter m&m’s the kids will never know they were suppose to be in there basket! ugh
meaghan - WEAK?!?! SERIOUSLY!?!? you went WEEKS w/o sweets! i can’t make it a day! you go girl…eat that chocolate!
Tara - the Reese’s peanut butter eggs have been the death of me this year.
Thea - I love those robin eggs too! They are such a weakness…let’s face it…any chocolate is a weakness for me! Enjoy your day! God bless and Happy Easter!
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Let’s see… I had a piece of pizza, a chocolate shake and a blueberry pancake today. So I think a little bag of candy isn’t too bad:) Walk it off girl!
Lisa - I can’t even tell you how many peanut butter eggs I had this week. It would gross you out!
sara's art house - OK- I admit- I totally copied you and went and wrote some verses on my chalkboard wall in colored chalk just like you. And then I posted a close-up pic of my jellybeans and I come here and see your cute bowl of robin’s eggs….great minds think alike 🙂
We are devouring our jelly bellies.
Sharla - Jolly Rancher jelly beans. Enough said 🙂
Dianne - You’re better than me…I just bought two bags each of reeses eggs and mini eggs…I’m SO weak!
tasha roe - those are my favorite too!! i cant buy them though….those and cadburry eggs. sigh. i am a sucker for seasonal/holiday candy – candy corn, conversation hearts, robin eggs. i know myself too well…i would have eaten that tiny bag in one sitting. you did good!
Dana Banana - ME TOO!! Robin Eggs are the bomb! (have only eaten part of a bag….so far)
Karina - LOL, I’m eating peanut butter chipits as I read this – too lazy even to eat the chocolate you’re supposed to eat, I go straight for the ingredients in the pantry! You are so not alone in this. And no, my pants from last summer do not fit. I must also get out and exercise – good for you for actually doing it, not just talking about it.
Laura - OMG Meg! I LOVE robin eggs too!
I bought them yesterday afternoon and ate 2/3 of the bag. The remaining eggs are calling me from the desk drawer, where I hid them from the rest of the family! I’m trying to ignore them! I might have to give in though… just to get it over with!
I’m SO glad I’m not the only one!
Tonya - oh they’re my fave too! i didn’t buy any this year….mainly b/c i never saw them! 😉
merlin - I can’t believe the timing of this post.
Just last night I had to explain to my husband and teenager how chocolate can talk, it speaks to me, serenading me into poor choices. It must. I don’t understand it, but I hear it through the cupboard door and the wall….”I’m here, all sweet deliciousness, just for you, I am here for you, melting sugary goodness, all for you”
I have a battle, arguing with the chocolate “no, not for me, you are for a specific purpose” and yet that chocolate sweet talks its way into my mouth. And then I am left wondering what happened, how did the empty wrapper get there, because I certainly had no intention of eating chocolate that was meant for somebody else. Yes, I told them sitting there looking at me incredulously, while I tried to explain the empty wrapper, “I have decided the devil lives in chocolate, that is how he disguises himself and I am so, so very weak.” “OK Mom, the devil’s in the chocolate” replies my teen, not sounding convinced.
Tegan and Tage - Easter candy is pure evil. EVIL!
And delicious.
Kelly - My mom bought Easter candy for us when she was here THREE weeks ago but wanted us to save it till Easter for an Easter basket since we wouldn’t be together. I had to hide that bag I tell you and I am sooo looking forward to it on Sunday!! 🙂 Kelly
Jessica Reed - I have the same problem… I love the cream filled Cadberry eggs. hmm…yumm… Thankfully they are TOO sweet… it takes me the whole week to finish off the pack of three. 🙂
Jennifer - My favorite is Dove Truffle Eggs. I went to 3 stores before I found them. *THAT* is weak. 🙁
Jill - They are my favorite, too! It’s just once a year, enjoy them. Though if you like malted milk balls, try to find Cadbury’s Maltesers one day. They’re English, and are absolutely fantastic.
Annie - At least you’re excercising! I keep telling my butt I need to do something, but alas – no working out for me. Instead I bought dark chocolate truffles 🙁
Ariel - I too ate the whole bag…in 24 hrs. You are stronger that I am when it comes to those little eggs….thank goodness they are gone now!
Christy - Chicks & bunnies for me, only Brach’s brand (like circus peanuts). I must eat them every Easter oh & Reese’s PB eggs, chilled. I can’t help it.
Mary - They have an Easter isle (as in island) at your store? How wonderful!
Lori - I am the same way with candy corn at Halloween. I have to buy a bag and eat it until I feel sick, then I am done! Otherwise, I spread it out and end up eating way more. At least, that’s my justification. Happy Easter!
Jennifer - I have a terrible problem with the Reece’s Peanut Butter Eggs!!!
Lorilee - I adore Robin’s Eggs too! I have bought several bags. Luckly, I usually just eat 4 or 5 every few days.
Blessings,
Lorilee
Paige - Mine are the Cadbury mini eggs…..just walk away. If I buy a bag, they are gone! Immediately!
Nicolle W. - my favorite too! One of the reasons I always look forward to Easter….
Esther Harper - oh my dear, I can totally relate but mine is marshmallow peeps…lol
Lee Ann - You are so NOT alone!
Amy - oh I know how you feel. I am glad the big Cadbury creme eggs only come in singles (don’t tell me about the smaller pack, i know). I love, love , love those things!