Day Eight: Look Ahead

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
-C.S. Lewis

Day Seven: Smile

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
-Dr. Seuss

Heart Day

We've been getting into the spirit around here....

So far we've had the usual fun with candy canes,







made some yummy treats {recipe here and here}



and made an Oracle of Love {Family Fun's version of the magic 8 ball}. Kensie LOVES this thing and asks it all sorts of questions. It's super easy to make, too.

Just get an empty jar {baby food jars work well. I had a marinated artichoke jar & used that}. Flatten a 1 inch Styrofoam ball with your thumb to create a cube with 6 sides.

Cut 6 hearts out of craft foam and write answers on each {I did yes, no, you bet, never, maybe, and ask again}. Use a glue gun to attach hearts to the cube, place in the jar and fill with water to the top. Make sure the lid is on tight! Now you can decorate the jar.

They recommended using modeling clay to cover the jar, which I didn't have. I just covered it in paper and craft foam, leaving the bottom exposed, and mod podged the whole thing.
So fun!


Next up, making valentines.....

Day Six: Life

fountains abbey- one of my favorite places on earth

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
-Maya Angelou

Day Five: Let Go

let it go- the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise- let it go it
was sworn to
go

let them go- the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers- you must let them go they
were born
to go

let all go- the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things- let all go
dear
so comes love

-e.e. cummings

Day Four: Memories

"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
My Antonia- Cather

Day Three: Books

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
-Cicero

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
-Oscar Wilde

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
-Gustave Flaubert

Day Two: Live

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
-Mark Twain

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A Month Of Quotes

I love quotes. I love reading the inspiring words of others. I have an entire journal dedicated to quotes, thoughts and poems that I love.

Each day this month I will be posting one {or two...or more....} of my favorites- just because I love them so {and also in case something should ever happen to my beloved journal, which incidentally is covered in astroturf. It's awesome.}.

*all photos from Flickr

Day One

Friendship



"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
-James Boswell



"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
-Anais Nin