Let them play in the dirt.

Sometimes it rains. Sometimes the kids won’t quit chirping to go outside anyway. What’s a mom to do?  Let them out in the mud…they will wash.  I love how my oldest girl (the more girly of the two) loves to dig in the dirt, but must carry her pink umbrella and don her butterfly lip gloss [...]

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Photo Challenge ~ Smile

  This week’s photo challenge at I Heart Faces is “smile”!  So many recent entries come to mind, but I decided to show this one of my little E doing what she loves best…getting dirty.  It rained all weekend and I was constantly bombarded with the “I wanna go outside” plea from her.  I gave in; [...]

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Print of the Week ~ Bamboo

While we were in Jamaica, we took an inland tour and ended up near a river and an old waterfall.  I couldn’t quit marveling at the bamboo there.  I’m sure it grows bigger in other areas of the world, but we don’t see this sort of thing in Ohio.  The lines were so beautiful. Enjoy [...]

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I Heart Faces Photo Challenge ~ Collages

  I Heart Faces is having a collage photo challenge this week.  I chose my recent trip to Jamaica to put together a few photos of this local vendor selling his wares.  Each day he would paddle his boat to this location, set up his creations, then patrons from the resorts would wade out to him to [...]

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