"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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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Acclimating to the: "Mommy doesn't know" thing

Yesterday Hallé said:
 "No mom, I wasn't burping! My tummy has just been giggling inside of me all day"
I said  "Oh, I didn't know"
She also told me:
"Mom, didn't you know that I'm scared of Hot Air Balloons?"
I said: "Oh, I didn't know"
This weekend Eden asked me:
"Mom, are all worms boys, or are all worms girls; or are there both?"
I told her I didn't know... ?
She also asked me:
"Mom, what year did they start building our city?"
I told her I didn't know...?
 And then THANK GOD......She asked me:
"Mom, I know that the big statues that are all blue or all gray are just cement and no people are in them, but are the ones that are in color and have painted faces the ones that mean they put that person inside there when they died?"
I told her: "I know for a fact that the answer is No"
In all fairness to balance out my stumped mom moments; I did teach Eden last weekend how to read March Maddness bracket results online, refresh the screen for pending games we were waiting to finish, and that we cheer for Gonzaga, WSU, & Vermont no matter what!

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