"BUT MARY TREASURED UP ALL THESE THINGS AND PONDERED THEM IN HER HEART." LUKE 2:19

~ things i love with a capital P ~

PERSPECTIVE, pottery barn patio furniture displays, practically all track jackets, putting my hope in Christ alone, photography, pistachio nuts, parenting as a privilege, pairs of cute sunglasses, painful times deepening friendships, pink bubblegum ice cream (by the pint), perseverance, practical jokes, people, people i can trust, plumeria flowers, pearl earrings that were my grandma's, pantene smooth vitality conditioner, plopping clutter into the trash, pigtails all messed up after naptime on my girls, purel hand sanitizer, painting walls with color, pouring into people's lives, plush blankets, prioritizing, polished nails, pharmacies with 24hr drive-thrus, places where palm trees survive winter, packing away my 2009 "calendar", pacific northwest mountains & rivers, pie plates with fluted edges, purpose, puppies named bronson, preferring the word pacing vs. procrastinating, people who love to say i'm sorry more than they love to hear it, pocket-sized butterfingers, phone calls with special friends, piano music, patterned scarves, practicing not to presume things, planting flowers in pots, passion, penne pasta, panda bears reminding me of my love for HK & japan, pillows that are just right, praise & worship freeing people of pride & insecurities, paying for starbucks coffee with gift cards, putting on my running shoes, pomegranate mixed drinks, putting off dishes till company leaves, purses filled with lipgloss, people who can be vulnerable, parties for every occasion, politeness, plane rides to far away places, popcorn that's air-popped, paul marrying stephanie, pedicures, peaceful homes, price tags with a clearance sticker on them, pre-recorded tv watching, poverty prompting compassion, pieces of angel food cake & strawberries for breakfast, peeking in on my girls while they sleep, products from bath-n-body works, packs of trident spearmint gum, people who can laugh & be witty when life gets hard, paper plates in bulk, papa murphys garlic spinach chicken artichoke de-lite pizza, pretending my girls and i wrote 'put your arms around me' by natasha bedingfield for each other & singing/dancing to it each night after work to remind me to put grace & humor in EVERYTHING (towards myself & them) or it will feel like a really long work week, a very short life, and an inevitable amount of colorful language exposure that i couldn't possibly blame all on the playground...............

we're. crazy. about. these. songs.


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Friday, November 21, 2008

Back to school for Mom & Dad...

Eden's 1st Report Card!

Daddy & Mommy just had the "sweetest" and most adorable experience yesterday...attending our first "parent/teacher" conference with Eden's Kindergarten teacher; Mrs. Stumph. She is wonderful and made us feel like she loved Eden and thought she was wonderful too...
(Who doesn't think it's wonderful to have someone tell you all the great and creative things your kid is doing...!?!)
I'm sure that there are things that go down in parent/teacher conferences that leave moms and dads heartbroken or frustrated; for that "absense" I am sooooo grateful and we thank God for healthy children!

We giggled when Mrs. Stumph told us how Eden was supposed to be sounding out & spelling a sentence to describe a picture she had drawn; when asked "Eden did you write this?" She replied: "No, Jadyn (Beauchamp) :)-such a sweetie- told me how to spell it because I didn't know...but I didn't ask her, she just told me, I didn't ask her, she just told me....." Mrs. Stumph laughed with us and we didn't know what was cuter; the fact that Eden had no idea that it wasn't ok to take others answers just because they were unsolicited, or the fact that the answers given were still adorably "wrong"...

I wish life stayed full of that simple confidence
"to give and receive help you can never be wrong!"

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