snips & snails

I love gallery wraps, especially the smaller sizes like the 8x10's... they're just such fun... I had great fun with this one, between the metallic finish & writing 'snips & snails & puppy dog tails' down one side...

When Adriana was little I found a double-volume, hard cover, coffee table size, boxed set of nursery rhymes for $3.95. I, of course, grabbed it, it was lovely to have, and brought us many hours of enjoyment... my favorite part is why it was $3.95 to begin with (of course we had to find out for ourselves), someone had (I'm sure as a joke or dare or who knows what) changed the rhyme about what little girls and little boys are made of... so our version says Little Girls are made of snips & snails & puppy dogs tails, and Little Boys are made of sugar & spice & everything nice!!!

Ray's always tried to assure me that it is, indeed, the correct poem!!!!

lollipop

So I got this email first thing this morning from my friend Dave, the reference was 'lollipop'. His wife, my dear, dear friend Mouse, had a baby this morning. A wee little lass, that's all I know... I wonder if she looked liked a lollipop? Or maybe Dave was having a lollipop when she made her grand arrival... or maybe he was having one while he sent the emails announcing the great news... I wonder...

I love this little girl, and welcome her with oodles of love and best wishes and I can't wait to meet her... She's across the pond, so I don't know when it'll be that I get to, maybe she'll be sitting up and smiling and giggling or maybe she'll have started to crawl, I hope she hasn't started walking by the time I make her acquaintance, as that would just be too long... all I know is that she is loved by people on both sides of that huge expanse of water that sometimes causes me such pain...

Mouse & Dave, and wee lollipop (aka Fluff) we are so happy for you all, congratulations. Welcome to this fabulous journey of parenthood! We love you all x

10 years

10 years ago today I married this pretty cool guy... I can't believe how the time has flown, and the great things that have happened over the last 10 years... Adriana being the best of those things (of course!) but there have been a lot of happy times, with hopefully many more to come...

Anniversaries are good, I got pancakes for breakfast on a weekday!!

I love my hubby! Happy Anniversary, Ray...