What I Want

This week’s is What I Want
I want to be able to sleep like this:

Or this:

Or even this!

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Theme Thursday - Spring

I really had to resist the urge to take a photo of a literal spring from the couch or something for this week’s theme. In the end, I decided to go with beauty rather than sarcasm.
I took these in Washington, DC when we went for the Cherry Blossom Festival. This is a garden area adjacent [...]

Theme Thursday - Perfection

Saturday we had the perfect weather to go downtown Washington D.C. to see the Cherry Blossoms in full bloom. They were absolutely beautiful and we had the perfect day as a family!

These are all SOOC, because that’s all I have time for today. I don’t know that I’d done much to them anyway!
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Theme Thursday - Self

When I first got my MacBook, I discovered, to my delight, a fantastic program called Photo Booth. My kids and I played with it, taking self-portraits.

We went crazy when we found the special effects!

It was comical.

And surprisingly sweet.

We had such tunnel vision that we played until we were blue in the face.

It was scary.

But definitely [...]

Theme Thursday - Change

When I was in 8th grade, my maternal grandfather died of cancer. Several months later, my grandmother found a plastic container with my name on it in a drawer. These old pennies were in it. I call them my Pennies from Heaven. The oldest is dated 1861.
Go to The Land of K.A. to see what [...]

Theme Thursday - Spirited

One of the women that works with me passed her citizenship test yesterday. She was then sworn in as a US citizen. I was so excited for her. She came from India just over 10 years ago. It took about 4 years to get her green card, then 5 to be eligible for the test. [...]

Theme Thursday - Memory

Let me tell you about one of the biggest positive influences of my life. My Grandpa Karr (short for our very long polish last name that ends with a ‘z’). I was his first granddaughter, first born of his oldest son. I was his favorite, and he, mine.
Thinking of him makes me smile, giggle and [...]