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After years of Thomas the train, tonka trucks and boy themed birthday parties, I am immersing myself in all that is girlie! Addy however, would rather play with the trucks and trains…but I think I may have finally won her over to the “pink” side with all this ladybug flair.

After playing with glue and googlie eyes, pipe cleaners and popsicle sticks, we moved onto a a little bug catching….

I can’t believe our baby  girl is three years old.

10 days new. Sleepy and full, baby “T” loved my studio.

His 13th Birthday is a week away…my last little boy, becoming a man.  Raising teens in this world  has not been easy…. I am making mistakes, learning and growing with him….trying to see the world through his eyes, and remember my life at that age (oooh…that’s not a trip down memory lane I like to frequent, ha!).  If all I do is get him to the other side in one piece, whole and strong, full of good stuff, virtue and values, I will be happy.

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
‘ Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!”

~ Rudyard Kipling

It has been a long time coming, but my fresh new Newborn site is finally live! A simple idea to have a separate place for my precious newborns turned into quite a laborious process while juggling all my other responsibilities.  It still needs a lot of work, but I could not wait to share it with you.  Click on the image below to take a peek.