tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18385804573338098452024-03-13T00:29:53.481-04:00Poppies and PoetryPoppies and Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12066852531446687434noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1838580457333809845.post-4981792724325471602011-12-11T19:55:00.001-05:002011-12-11T20:00:56.708-05:00The Crock Pot Chronicles {Nutella Hot Chocolate}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">November and December are months where most of us stop and consciously pause to reflect on the things we are thankful for. Most notably at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner, over hoards of turkey or ham, dressing, and sides. This time of year is a great time to openly celebrate with our family how fortunate we really are. I love this time of year for that very reason.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">As parents though, my husband and I are largely concerned about instilling real gratitude into are children all year around.We are personally grateful for so much; a healthy family, a warm bed, food in our fridge, clean water, and the list goes on. The basic necessities that can often be taken for granted. We see ourselves as lottery winners of sorts, to be born in a country such as ours with the freedom, opportunities, amenities, and overall abundance living in America provides.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">I've been told that raising children with a grateful heart starts with self-awareness. In a culture where the Hiltons, Kardashians, and Jersey Shore cast are among the role models exposed to our children, this can be hard. Extravagance, materialism and self-entitlement is the constant theme being sold in main stream media. Having excessive value on wealth, power and popularity does not only promote an inferior view children have of themselves, but also a loss of real genuine perspective.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Perspective can always adopt gratitude. Gratitude always parents joy.</strong><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">(</span><a href="http://www.cincinnatiparent.com/publicationreturnframe.lasso?-token.address=http://www.aholyexperience.com" style="background-color: white; color: black !important; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; z-index: 290;" target="_top">www.aholyexperience.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Having nice things is of course nice, but truly finding meaning and fulfillment in the most simplistic of things fosters real joy.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Expecting and encouraging gratitude with our children is really two different things. Instilling gratitude in our children is an on-going work in progress. Intentionally practicing gratitude, modeling gratitude, and spreading love and generosity as a family can really make a difference. Here are a just a few things that I've found that can be done through the year to do just that.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">1. Every birthday and each Christmas have children choose one of their older toys to donate to charity for each new toy they receive. Then let them be apart of the actual delivering to the family or charity.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">2. Participate as a family in a giving/angel tree program where you pick a child or family to buy gifts for. Make sure your child learns about the child they are buying for and then allow them to do the shopping. If possible be apart of the delivering so they can further feel the joy that comes from the giving. (a place that does this is my church, Crossroads:</span><a href="http://www.cincinnatiparent.com/publicationreturnframe.lasso?-token.address=http://www.crossroads.net" style="background-color: white; color: black !important; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; z-index: 290;" target="_top">www.crossroads.net</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">3. Sign up as a family to feed a family for Thanksgiving either by putting a box together or serving in a place like Gospel City Gospel Mission downtown. (Crossroads also does this)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">4. Make cookies or crafts together and then take them to a nursing home. Your kids will be a welcome sight there.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">5. Have your children write thank-you notes often to people in their life like their teacher, the mailman, their grandparents, even the Easter Bunny after he delivers the loot. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">6. Most importantly model gratitude. Tell your kids you love them, tell them why and tell them often. Let them see you writing thank-you notes, spreading love, and being generous. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">See you later in the week for a fun Thanksgiving grateful craft!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Recommended Reading:</strong><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><a href="http://www.cincinnatiparent.com/publicationreturnframe.lasso?-token.address=http://www.aholyexperience.com" style="background-color: white; color: black !important; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; z-index: 290;" target="_top">www.aholyexperience.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> (amazing site!)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Have the Guts to Do it Right: Raising Grateful and Responsible Children in an Era of Indulgence by Sherri Moskowitz Noga</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Corbel, Arial, 'Trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Growing Grateful Kids: Teaching Them to Appreciate God in Ordinary Places by Susie Larson</span><img alt="post signature" class="centered" src="http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa189/chrissymarie329/blogsig.jpg" /></div>Poppies and Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12066852531446687434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1838580457333809845.post-43123633756394690102011-11-14T22:50:00.001-05:002011-11-14T23:01:55.258-05:00Grateful Gobbler<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Long time-no see! Here we are propelled into the holiday season already! Got all your Christmas shopping done? Yeah, me too. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">New happenings around my neck of the woods include my new gig as a contributing blogger for <a href="http://www.cincinnatiparent.com/">Cincinnati Parent Magazine</a>! I've named it <a href="http://www.cincinnatiparent.com/1bloglistingsbody.lasso?-token.blogref=6194.114134">The Minivan Momologues</a>. Catchy, huh? I'll be posting some crafty fun, thrifty tips and random mommy musings a few times a week there. I think that will force me to organize and structure myself to be more consistent in blog posting here and there. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This last week was all about Gratitude and I found an inspiring craft to give-a-go myself and I just love how it turned out. <a href="http://www.cincinnatiparent.com/Blog-6194.114134-6213.114134-Grateful-Gobbler.html">I shared it over at MM</a> and am jazzed to share it here to. </span><br />
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On Thanksgiving use the completed turkey as a visual aide to spark wonderful conversation at dinner as you celebrate the holiday. Saving the feathers from year to year will be a fun way of collecting memories and to catalogue your family's feelings of gratitude. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2 styrofoam circles (1 larger than the other) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cut a small triangle out of yellow felt for the beak and a elongated heart shape out of red felt for the gobbler. Glue googly eyes, beak and gobbler to the smallest circle to create a cute little turkey face.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Happy Halloween Friends! I hope you have made the most out of the spooky season. My family and I sure have. By now we've all dressed up a few times for different events and parties. Here's a glimpse of some of the costume fun we've been having. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">First let's start with last year's Mad hatter and Queen of Hearts. Mostly because it's my favorite costumes to date. So I will be overly gratuitous with the pictures.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It took some thrifty finds, sewing & hot gluing, and good 'ole fashion elbow grease to bring them both together. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This year we stuck with Tim Burton with Beetlejuice and Lydia. It made our 80's/90's hearts very happy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This year I also went with a friend to a party and dressed as a Doll. She dressed as Cindi Lauper.</span></div>
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My saving grace was seeing felt on sale at my local fabric store and rejoicing that the edges wouldn't have to be finished. So I purchased both purple and green felt at half off (so not a major loss if I botched the whole thing) and got to work winging it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I doubled the purple felt and laid his pants down, traced with chalk, cut out and sewed up sides. This technique is not going to win any awards, but it worked! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I also doubled the green felt and literally free-handed with chalk a vest. I cut out and put it on Caleb noting how it fit and then adjusted. I cut a tie shape out of the felt and hand stitched it to a white t-shirt he wore underneath the vest.
To be completely honest, all of this could have been done with a hot glue gun and some hope. Felt is the best. I found some purple gloves at the dollar store and cut the fingers. A bit of makeup and my little Mister was maniacal. </span><br />
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So what to do this year? Do I make it easy and go store bought this year for my guys? My busy schedule is making me feel the time crunch. Let's see what I can do maybe with some more felt and a hot glue gun. Stay tuned!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think I mentioned <a href="http://poppiesandpoetry.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-found-passion.html">here</a> about my new photography hobby. I have been really practicing and getting acclimated to my dslr as of late. I'm truly starting to feel like I am getting the hang of this wonderous little machine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So when my cousin Kim asked if I would take some fun photos of her and her husband to celebrate her baby bump, I of course said yes. After all, I desperately need the practice and they were so ideally open to a fun shoot with a range of <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/">Pinterest</a> inspired ideas.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It seems many others share my enthusiasm for crockpot cooking. Lately I've seen that the <a href="http://www.crockpotgirls.com/">crockpot girls</a> and <a href="http://www.skinnycrockpot.com/">skinny crock</a> have reached a massive amount of followers who are also sharing their favorite tried and true slow cooking meals. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My plan this fall and winter is to plow through as many of these recommended recipes as possible. I'll be sharing here as I try each one, reporting the low-down on how easy it was to to do and how delicious the results were. I'll start with one I've used several times over the last few weeks that is a real pleaser in my home: Lemon & Herb Roasted Chicken</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So cute, right? How awesome does that look on her wall above her couch with all those beautiful pillows? All I could think was: want.want.want. must have. must have. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Luckily because of my faithful thrifting, I already had a large canvas on hand to re-purpose that I purchased for a whopping $5. Looks like all I needed was some white paint to cover the current art on the canvas and some black shoe polish. Easy enough.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Surprisingly my husband liked it too, but after putting it up over my coach in my own living room, I am not sold that its the best compliment to the space. So for now this canvas does not have a home in my home, but I enjoyed the process and know I will use a similar technique for future projects. </span></div>
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Poppies and Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12066852531446687434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1838580457333809845.post-60121373916024802722011-09-05T12:24:00.003-04:002011-09-05T12:29:12.493-04:00A Summer Farewell<span style="font-size: large;">Howdy! Hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. It is always bittersweet for me. I love the long holiday weekend, but am heartbroken that it signifies the end of summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's <a href="http://thepleatedpoppy.com/2011/08/what-i-wore-wednesday-33/">WIWW</a> and I am again sharing some things I wore the past week. Unfortunately my photography of said outfits is yet to get better. Time my friends, is my downfall. In the spirit of keeping myself accountable for not being a frumpy Mommy, I'm posting anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I went back in time recently with a friend. We hit a cute vintage boutique where I put on this frock that I actually considered buying for for a minute. In the end I walked away, but I've been thinking about that cute dress everyday since. Isn't the dressing room completely awesome??</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My color choices had me feeling like a Mortician all day for some reason. I wonder if it's all the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Six_Feet_Under_episodes"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Six Feet Under</span></strong></a><span style="font-size: large;"> I've been watching. And as I look at that photo I realize that the fact that I put a skirt on most totally trumps the fact that it is more wrinkled than a Shar-Pei.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am having the hardest time finding art for my home that I can live with. I've been scouring </span><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">pinterest </span></a><span style="font-size: large;">and the internet in general for inspiration. Somewhere along the way I saw some art involving silverware and adored it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After finding a great color spray paint on clearance and realizing the multitude of canvases I have to repurpose, I finally had a direction. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;">Now for some cute silverware graphics. For weeks I put the project on the back burner while I try to figure that out. As luck would have it, last night I pulled out a Trader Joe's paperbag to put Caleb's school supplies in, and the spoon and fork on the outside of the bag said "here we are!". </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I quickly cut out those cute little spoons and forks and modge podges their butts on to the freshly painted canvas that previously donned an Italian vineyard scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm gonna have to live with it a few days before I say "I do". But I think we might be long time friends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been tuned in every week to what the lovely <a href="http://thepleatedpoppy.com/about/">Lindsey</a> has been wearing and am totally inspired by how she keeps herself accountable for getting out of the disheveled Mommy look that we can all fall into sometimes. Like yesterday when I went a whole day bra-less in my pajamas with a side pony. </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A less blurry picture of my hair accessory made by Moi. Easy to make and I love wearing it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This morning I purposefully cut off my head because I hadn't got that far and was wondering if I actually would since I was already running late. Please also ignore the mirror smudges my children lovingly make by pushing their faces and tongues against it. I've given up on keeping it clean. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">black cardigan & belt- <em>thrifted</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">black tights and sandals- <em>Target</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;">and here's the cuff I'm wearing, upcycled by myself from a thrifted piece of leather. I adore it.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">How do you keep yourself accountable for not looking like a hotmess Mommy most days? Let's be honest, it's so very easy to do. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hope to see you next week for another WIWW. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;">edit: It seems that Wednesday in the blogosphere is the day to share what you are wearing! I'll also be linking up over at <a href="http://www.wildflowersandwhimsy.com/">Wildflowers & Whimsy</a> for <a href="http://www.wildflowersandwhimsy.com/2011/08/rock-your-runway.html">Rock the Runway</a> (I totally love that title!).</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="post signature" class="centered" src="http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa189/chrissymarie329/blogsig.jpg" /></div>Poppies and Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12066852531446687434noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1838580457333809845.post-42301581865286848652011-07-28T10:54:00.000-04:002011-07-28T10:54:32.564-04:00{Ode to Turquoise}<span style="font-size: large;">I've been addicted, obsessed and crazed with the color turquoise since elementary school.The intensity of my obsession hasn't waned a bit into my adulthood. If a room in my house isn't a shade of it, then the accessories in that room are. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love to decorate with turquoise, wear it, accessorize with it and even eat it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's celebrate the most beautiful color there is, shall we?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My Aunt and Uncle, their triplet teenagers, my teenage brother and sister. and my little family had one amazing Fourth of July weekend sleeping under the stars and playing in the sun. Days were spent at the lake and the evenings around a camp fire.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My family and I are still recovering from a very Brady camping trip in Wisconsin with some of my extended family. Lots to share soon my friends. While I baby my sunburn and catch up on indoor sleep, I leave you with one of the stars of our trip: the newly deemed Camping Cookie. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.joyshope.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">Joys Hope</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> introduced me to the amazing 4 ingredient </span><a href="http://www.joyshope.com/2011/03/four-ingredients-to-fabulous.html"><span style="font-size: large;">blondie</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> that is now a camping super star. Tomorrow I'm gonna make it a Thursday super star. Really it could be a super star everyday of every week. Completely scrumptious with endless combinations. The absolute easiest ever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can I tell you how many times my hubby and I have been frustrated by a stripped screw? I can't count that high. To think all we needed was a <a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/how-to/how-to-remove-a-stripped-screw-without-an-extractor-home-hacks-107582">rubber band</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Laundry, how I despise thee.I may reconsider with a <a href="http://ana-white.com/2010/11/laundry-basket-dresser.html">laundry tower</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://storageandglee.blogspot.com/2010/03/two-second-storage-tech-wires.html">This solution</a> for work and home is about a decade overdue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My mind is slightly blown that boiling a can of sweetened condensed milk makes dulce de leche or carmel sauce. I see lattes, sauces and pies in my future. Just wow!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Any questions? You can use any wine really, any juice almost and of course Sprite will work as well as sparkling fruit water. It's pretty hard to mess up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you are having a happy summer thus far. If not this will certainly sweeten it up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't you smell the fresh croissants calling your name? That can't be just me.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because of all the rain our area has seen, there have been many a rainbow. So I've been working on looking past all the rain and finding the rainbow. Look closely it's a double!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">My oldest son is a karate kid. He kicked some but in his recent tournament.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Silver in sword and gold in combinations. So proud.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This little punk just had his third birthday. His cuteness is deceiving. The third year is hard...on the parents. We're gonna keep the liquor cabinet stocked. I'm only half kidding. But isn't he cute??</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We bought a pass to the big pool in our area. I am so looking forward to taking in the summer sun next to the pool. My boys are equally as excited. Yesterday was the perfect day to hang by the pool since it was 96 degrees. I rock 80 SPF. Unlike my husband my body does not welcome the rays so well. Lobster face is not attractive.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I've been trying to spend lots of one on one with my Caleb. He's just growing so fast. If there was some way to slow down time I would do it just so I could enjoy more time with him before I'm not cool anymore. When does that start? I still plan on making him give me kiss and hugs when I drop him off in front of school until he's 18. Think he'll mind?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My kindergartener's last day of school is Wednesday. I'm not sure if he's more excited or I am. I can't wait for fun-filled summer days with my little gremlins. I've already been organizing and planning so we can pack the most joy into what feels like a too short summer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my summer-fun research I've come across lots of wonderful ideas to throw into my arsenal. And I think nice Mommies share. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A clothespin and a rubber band are gonna equal some </span><a href="http://rootsandwingsco.blogspot.com/2009/06/easy-handmade-rubber-band-shooters.html"><span style="font-size: large;">serious boy fun</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> as long as no one puts an eye out.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.themotherhuddle.com/toast-painting/"><span style="font-size: large;">Toast painting</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. I can just see us in our pjs painting our toast before devouring it with our eggs. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.holamama.es/page/6/"><span style="font-size: large;">I love Butcher Paper</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. Endless Possibilities.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A </span><a href="http://www.saltwater-kids.com/2010/02/scavenger-hunt-cards_5151.html"><span style="font-size: large;">nature scavenger hunt</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. Then we can make collages with what we find.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tipjunkie.com/32-things-to-make-using-a-cardboard-box-diy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TipJunkie+%28Tip+Junkie+-+Creative+Inspiration%29"><span style="font-size: large;">Cardboard boxes</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. A rainy day success for sure. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sfwc2gYklRM/TdsTN306yfI/AAAAAAAAAoM/STKXQjlkFmI/s1600/cardboard+fun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sfwc2gYklRM/TdsTN306yfI/AAAAAAAAAoM/STKXQjlkFmI/s1600/cardboard+fun.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And there are lots of other </span><a href="http://thelongthread.com/?p=7880"><span style="font-size: large;">summer crafty ideas</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> I can't wait to try. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You must be as excited as I am about summer! If not we really have nothing in common.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="post signature" class="centered" src="http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa189/chrissymarie329/blogsig.jpg" /></div>Poppies and Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12066852531446687434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1838580457333809845.post-85104249681176496202011-05-15T23:13:00.002-04:002011-05-15T23:15:51.749-04:00I'll Love You Forever<span style="font-size: large;">Reading to your children is one of the best Mommy moments there are. Agreed? Agreed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love to watch my boy's sweet faces as they fall deeper and deeper in to the story, their curious eyes hanging on my every word as I turn each page. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No book, and I mean no book makes me choke up every single time like: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/dp/0920668372"><span style="font-size: large;">I Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is my all time favorite book. It makes my heart swell up and my eyes glisten with tears each and every time I read it. Acutally it's happening right now even as I type this. This book just gets me. A true story about a Mother's forever love. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think it's just completely appropriate for the darling words in this book to hang on my wall. And now it is also available to you in <a href="http://www.poemlindsey.etsy.com/">my etsy shop</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Go take a gander and see the newest treats in my shop!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love Forever,</span><br />
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