well, sometimes.....

i truly believe that a new bag or a good book or a pair of boots or a lined journal or a cup of hot tea are the best things, ever...well, at least at the moment of falling in love with them. let's at least agree on that, should we :)

deep down though, we all know that it's our spouses and love and our children and love and our pets and love and our families and love that are the best things in life. always.

trying to remember.....

darn it anyway, when the soul and the mind and the heart and the head have a huge party and don't get along. fingers get pointed, voices get raised and someone walks out and slams the door. why can't they all just get along? everyday. and maybe dance a little. the "hustle" would be fun.

sometimes we forget.....

something about these words remind me of a line in "country strong." a movie i loved. speaking of movies, we watched "arbitrage" last weekend and would love to compare notes with anyone else who saw it. well only the ending needs to be discussed. we were all like, "what?"
also, did anyone see, "happythankyoumoreplease"...it was really cute. i'm so thankful we have showtime, hbo and charter on demand to fill some of our evening hours now that it's cold out.

happy birthday, love.....

my gorgeous hubby is 50 today. not only is he my hubby, he's the love of my life. my rock. my soft place to land, when life beats me up. he's the one that lets me dream. alone or with him. when i'm up, he's flying with me, hand in hand. when i'm down, he gently stands me back up. 

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we met in high school when i was a junior and he was a senior and we've been together ever since. if you do the math, i've been with him, thirty two of my forty eight years. together, we've had two amazing children, the best four legged baby ever and enough moves to last a lifetime. i think the last count was thirteen {moves get blurry after the count of ten} we've learned everything together and we've done everything together. personally, with him by my side, i feel like there's nothing we can't do. nothing we can't dream about. nothing we can't be.

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so to say i'm the luckiest girl in the world...well, i think i truly am. love doesn't find everyone and even when it does, it doesn't always grow like a wonderful weed that flowers unexpectedly, overtaking everything you're made of. we always say we're like two trees that were originally planted side by side, who now, after all these years have become one. our separate branches have wrapped themselves around each other so tightly and perfectly, that to the common passerby, they only see one tree.

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so today i celebrate YOU, sweet hubby of mine. fifty years looks so amazingly beautiful and sexy on you. being here today, in your arms, with the man i fell instantly in love with 34 years ago, wishing you the best birthday ever, is a blessing beyond blessings. 

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yes, it does.....

love always, always, always, always, always, always, always, always, always, always wins

choices.....

overall, this week feels like a quiet one for me. i'll still be here in blog land sharing some of my photos that i've laced with yummy words from pinterest, but that's about it. {oh pinterest, darn you. how in the world do you steal entire afternoons from me?} anyhow...oh and the best part of my quietness...you can "take" any of my wordy photos this week and use them however you want. you're welcome.

jump, laugh, don't touch me, smile.....

i love counting to three and yelling "jump," especially when it's my little sister's family listening to me. on thanksgiving, she asked me if i would take a few photos of them. yep, she actually asked me if i would do that. me, her crazy photographer sister and would i take photos. of them? it's kind of like asking a dog if it wants a treat. snort.

i tried to be a little creative, but it was colder than it looks in the photos and the wind was blowing and kids, including mine, were running amuck, so i shot quickly.

here's just one of the many outtakes from the day. the middle child {who i can point out and laugh at, as i'm one myself} on the left, thought everything was funny, which made his little sister laugh and tested his older brother's patience. we won't talk about his mom's patience. snort again.

in the end, it was a perfect afternoon and we all laughed. a lot. the best part, is that my sister took photos of our family, too. maybe tonight or tomorrow i'll have time to edit them and maybe, just maybe, they might get printed and used in christmas cards. oh wait. now i'm just talking crazy talk.

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