a few photo's and thoughts

I was inspired by Ali Edwards (as always) with her blog post about wanting to remember. It may be a bit of a no-brainer, but it made a lot of sense to me tonight and so this post will be full of things I want to remember:


I want to remember how Ariella smells right now when I kiss her. I kiss her an absolutely ridiculous amount of times throughout the day and she smells SO GOOD!

I want to remember that I never want to watch another season of masterchef again! I've LOVED it way too much and it totally takes up too much of your time (despite the fact that it's the only tv I watch!) I can't wait to find out who won this year - it'll be exciting and I'll be FREE!!

I want to remember that there was once a time that I didn't want to get married and assumed I would never have kids and so where I find myself right now is miraculous, and wonderful - and all because of what God's done in my life.


I want to remember that people are more important that things (ie: that my children are more important than whatever it was they just broke or messed up)

Because I CAN'T remember how much I used to love scrapbooking, I want to remember how excited I was when I found this...my new way of memory keeping :) be still my beating heart! I've done January 2009 and have already uploaded page one into my snapfish account for a 2009 photo book. I'm not going back any further than 2009. I'm not concerned about 'catching up'. I want to do traditional scrapbooking again one day, but in the meantime, while I still don't really feel like it...I'm just putting together some photo's and journalling into photo books. (I'm not sure if I shared on here about my scrapbooking freak out? probably...anyway, this all kinda came out of that lol)

Oh yeah...and I don't think I'll do project life. What an awesome idea! But really not for me.


I want to remember how special I feel when Ariella wraps her little arms so tight around my neck. And that Malakai used to do that too.

the words of a song have been with me most of this week...

see the not so good old days
could make you weak or make you brave...

and i've never been
the most beautiful

no i ain't never been
the most popular

but it's amazing what love can do
it's amazing what a little love can do

every thought and action, is like a boomerang
what goes around will come back baby
so careful what you say
and the little ugly ducklings are swans that got away
see Cinderella stories they still happen everyday

God is good :)

That's something I always want to remember - GOD IS GOOD!