Red

This week's You Capture theme is red...and I found

red fire hydrants, both new



and faded.




I wandered over to a neighbor's house to see her beautiful red bushes.




I love the color of the clear blue sky behind the stop sign!




We see this red wall nearly every week.




And this is Josiah's hotdog creation he came up with

Y'all, there's mac & cheese on that dog! And, yes, he ate every bite.

when we visited a new, very busy overpriced hotdog place we found.




All photos are SOOC except for cropping.

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Cyndi Lauper sighting

We actually get a lot of Cyndi Lauper sightings around here...

Grace, 4 years old

It's like Grace takes "Fancy Nancy" to a whole other level. She may not have fuchsia hair mousse or feather boas to accessorize with, but she will come up with her own "look"...

...several times a day.

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You Capture: Happy

When I discovered that this week's You Capture theme is happy--and took the boys to their music lessons that same day--I figured out pretty quickly what at least some of my photographs would involve.

A dog.

More specifically, a girl and a dog.


That's not the best photo, but you can see how happy Grace is with the music store owner's dog Katie who came to visit that day. After that, I didn't see much of Grace's face because she was reading a Fancy Nancy book to Katie


and watching Katie resting on the floor

and generally gazing adoringly at Katie.


Grace was also happy with her new wall decorations that I put around her bed. She shares a very blue room with Josiah, who once suggested that we paint two walls pink so Grace would like the room more. When he saw this new addition, he said to Grace, "Well, hello, Fancy Nancy!"


Yes, he is a really good big brother! And that makes me very happy. :)

You know what else makes me happy? Yummy pizza...

This makes several of us in this house happy

and beautiful sunsets with fake-looking clouds

right in my own back yard.


But while happiness from dogs, pink wall decorations, pizza, and even beautifully colored skies can fade, there is something that will never fade...

I'm happy from the inside out, and from the outside in, I'm firmly formed. You canceled my ticket to hell— that's not my destination!
Psalm 16:9 (The Message)

Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be—
you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean.
Psalm 32:1 (The Message)

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Wordless Wednesday: Peaceful

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Overheard: Fun with personification

In the car on the way to church Wednesday night...

Me: Look, Grace! Doesn't the moon look huge tonight?

Grace [with just the slightest hint of a pause]: The moon had a birthday, so it's another year older. That's why it's so big.

Well, now you know.

The moon looked so much more beautiful than the one decent (...sort of) shot I got of it.

~~~~~

In the car on the way to the library, while we were stopped at a red light...

Grace [laughing]: Oh! They look like puppies playing in the road! Whooooooa! Now I wanna go over here! Whooooooa! This is fun! Oh, look! They're playing together!

Josiah [looking up from the book he was reading]: What puppies?

Grace: I'm talking about the leaves in the road! They move when the wind blows!

~~~~~

And, once again, I am kicking myself for not writing down conversations as they happen. I know there was (at least) one other example of personification in something either Josiah or Grace said, but I can't remember it. Boo.

You Capture: Circles

This week's You Capture photography challenge is circles, and we found circles on the tot-sized mushroom seats at the new library:


There were trendy circular lights at the new trendy library:


Tuesday night I used the last of the frozen blueberries we picked in the summer



to make blueberry pancakes. The batter was a funny shade,


and I rarely make circular pancakes, but they were delicious!


And, last but not least, the last of my Christmas-y decorations:


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Typical

It seemed like a typical day. It really did.

And then it just got more typical.

Grace called me into the living room to see what she had made. Can you guess what she had in mind?

Updated to include this hint: This is not supposed to be a typical bedroom. And she had no intention of actually sleeping here. She was, however, creating a very specific scene.













Grace (4) did all of this entirely on her own, with no help and no direction from anyone.