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A great song to get you out of the Monday Blah's !  I was having them big time this morning.  (Had to pay bills, which was doubly no fun because we are scraping bottom of the barrel - and it is downright chilly this morning! Not to mention it is MONDAY! UGH!!) Thanks to a FB friend, this song proved to be the mood lifter I needed. Being a brown eyed girl , when I was little I thought this song was about me .  It came out 4 years before I was born, but when your little, you don't know those things, just that the song makes you feel special. It was what I needed - having a brother and and a sister with light eyes - I though this song was meant just for me. And seeing this video, where Van looks downright uncomfortable having to be on stage doing this, made me smile. Seems we all have to do things we get uncomfortable doing...... So enjoy this, and your Monday!  Oh, and if you love Van, you can catch him still touring !! Cheers! 

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The stress is really getting to me. I sat down to write this morning (Friday - this didn't get written until close to midnight so is posted Sat.) , after driving the kids to school for the second time this week, and took stock of what I thought the day would be like. I won't bore you with the details of my terrible start to the day, the lack of progress that ensued, and the huge funk that I was in. I will just share with you what made me think my stress and grump was all slightly silly. Lady J discovered  a small creature, North Carolina's only land turtle I had to at least get a walk in. I didn't want that failure to add to the beating I was giving myself. So my ever willing companion, Lady J, and I started down the driveway. She ran ahead of me a bit and found this Eastern Box Turtle ! It is the third one we have seen on this property. The first one we found last fall, and it had a beautiful shell. First found turtle, last fall. The second we found in th

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I say that SO much here since we moved. I just can't help it. There is just something that hits me when I take a minute and take in the surroundings. The thought pops in my head, it is beautiful . What is beautiful? Everything . Early this morning, the fog was thick and beautiful. Then the sun came out and is sparkling through the trees.  And the cool breeze is coming thought the windows blowing the curtains. The cicadas are singing their songs. It is just a beautiful day. No matter that we are completely stressed about money. No matter that Raige's sales are slow. No matter I have a list of chores to do and projects to finish. No matter that the path I was looking for is no clearer than when I started looking for it. All that I have is beautiful day after beautiful day. That seems to be what this song is about . We may not have lost everything just yet, soon enough we will reach that point, but we are happier than ever knowing we have the opportunity to walk down our

I want to introduce you to Daresa ,  my favorite charm maker.  Green Rose on Black Toekini's You may know Raige's series of Rose Toekini's,  and the Lucky Bug Toekinis,  Red Lucky Bugs on Black Toekini Blue Faith Toekini's and more recently the Cross Toekini's.  These came to life with the wonderfully creative and exceptionally good quality products of Clay Art by Daresa , and Lucky Bugs Collectibles Shop . I was lucky enough to meet Daresa on Zibbet , and I quickly found she can read my mind.  She is so friendly and sweet, and so ready to tackle whatever idea I have. She always delivers JUST what I had in my mind, and usually even better than what was in my mind. Like these charms. Ask and ye shall receive.... I asked her to make butterfly charms, some kind of sun charm, and a Canada Inspired charm; a special request for a Mom and her little girl.  And just look at the butterflies! "Bootiful" was what the little girl said! Her m

Tomorrow is the  first day of school  for my kids. Bittersweet . School buses ready and waiting for the first day. Bittersweet, you ask? Bittersweet is actually a color, a variation of orange, so fits into the coming of fall, and in 1949, "bittersweet" was made into a Crayola color , so actually quite fitting for back to school. But yes , back to school is bittersweet in the adjective sense of the word; producing or expressing a mixture of pain and pleasure . The kids say they don't want to go back to school, they have enjoyed their summer of carefree days, sleeping in, no homework, no projects or grades to worry about. The lonely swing my son and I put up. But in a way, they want to go back. Though they won't admit it , they like the structure of days with purpose, and of course they want to re-connect with their friends, maybe make some new ones. For me, it is bittersweet too. I have   enjoyed the summer with them so much. Spending time doing sm

I spent the other evening on the computer in the living room with the boys next to me playing video games.  The oldest asked me to play some music because he had Marky Mark 's Good vibrations stuck in his head.  (poor thing!) He said he would rather hear anything besides that....sooo This was the song he requested! Wha? I couldn't believe, first of all, that he knew this song at all, and second, he wanted to hear it and sang along ! The mountain is high, the valley is low And you're confused on which way to go So I've come here to give you a hand And lead you into the promised land So come on and take a free ride He was telling ME about Edgar Winter !  I was 2 years old when this song hit #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but I do remember hearing it on that AM radio always playing in the kitchen when I was growing up. And I am pretty sure this song came blaring out of my brother's room regularly in the late 1970's and early 1980's.  Actually, it