Silly

Nothing like ending a summer day with being silly. I can set my camera to take five consecutive pictures on the self-timer, so we have lots of pictures. Here are a few (or several).

"Don't be afraid to look silly."

I'm linking up with Emily today The Anderson Family Crew

Imperfectly Fabulous

So, I know I've gone on tangents about it before and recently too, but I guess I'm just trying to convince myself that what I write is true. Therefore, I'm going to talk about it again in the hope that this time, I actually believe myself. The "IT" is blogging. "IT" can be a stressful thing, especially when you're a perfectionist and slightly insecure. "IT" can often make you feel like you're not good enough, that you should be doing more for your kids, taking better photographs, or attracting more "fans". What really matters??? The reality is that we all have things going on in our lives that are not so glamorous, but, it seems, we rarely mention them; I applaud those who do. Everyone's life is so darn "fabulous" and for some reason, the competition is there to be even more fabulous. Well, forget it...I'm vowing to be imperfectly fabulous and in honor of this new found "freedom", here are some imperfectly fabulous photographs from this past Friday.

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

Winston Graham

PS Anyone else having trouble with changing the color and size of the font on blogger?

Uncomfortable

This photo is a bit out of my comfort zone being so dang close...yikes! I don't think I even see myself that close in the mirror. But look at that smile on E...who can resist that?

"Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream."

Peter McWilliams

I'm linking up with Emily today at The Anderson Crew for Embrace the Camera.

327

I noticed today that it's my 327th post....not all that significant, just that I happened to glance up and see that number. Sometimes I'm not sure what to make of this blogging gig. It's fun, but yet at the same time, the stress of posting something worthwhile often creeps in to ruin the party. But then, I stop and gain a better perspective on things; all this thinking and analyzing destroys the moment. And so, I just pull out some tidbits from my life and post.

On Saturday, we walked to the end of our street to watch the cyclists in the Pan Mass Challenge. Lance Armstrong was a participant in this year's ride...pretty exciting, even though we didn't get to see him. We were there a whopping 3 minutes before Little Miss was stung by a wasp....yuck!

Later in the day we went to Cousin Michael's Boot Camp Birthday Party. Even Little Miss wanted camo face paint.

But, who says a girl with Camo face paint can't have red toenails? She is now asking me to paint her toenails and wants a princess party for her next birthday. I'm loving painting the nails, but as for the princess parties, I'm not so into that. We have several months before the next birthday, so we can work on that.

...and that's a wrap on #327.

Thanks to those of you who are interested in the tidbits of our life!

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins

Mem and I

My memere and I at her house last week. E took the picture..this is one of about 50. He had us cracking up because he was making silly faces to get us to laugh.

Happy 91st Birthday Memere. xo

"Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of you to the world."

I'm linking up with Emily today for Embrace the Camera.

Here are the pics...(see previous post)

My hubby fixed the photo upload situation, so here are the pictures I promised from my previous post. We took these to my memere's house as part of her birthday picnic. She turned 91 on Saturday!

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Maya Angelou

"Mermaid Wands"

I saw this craft in my recent Family Fun magazine. We decided to make some, and with our recent trip to Newport, we had all the supplies. We didn't call them mermaid wands though, we called them sea stars (did you know that was the proper name for starfish?) and we used them as decorations in our vases of hydrangeas. Here are a few pictures.

Apparently not... I've reached my quota for pictures...stayed tuned, I'll post the pictures tomorrow after my IT guy (aka: husband) figures out what the problem is.