J o e y & A l e e t h e a - super cool handmade monster clothing and more! :D

how true

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

 

~Oprah Winfrey

 

holiday gift suggestions

"Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness. 

To an opponent, tolerance. 

To a friend, your heart. 

To a customer, service.  

To all, charity. 

To every child, a good example.

To yourself, respect."

~Oren Arnold

And if none of that works, just come one over to Joey & Aleethea for a jolly good shopping time!!!!! hehehe and hohoho! :D oxox

 

giving thanks

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgment of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

 

gratitude

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

~William Arthur Ward

 

don't worry...

"Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours . never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness. Your success and happiness lie in you. The great enduring realities are love and service. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

~ Helen Keller

inexplicable

"The value of things is not the time that it lasts, but the intensity with which they occur. So there are unforgettable moments, inexplicable things and incomparable people." - Fernando Pessoa

goodbye, Summer Skye

 

"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."

~ Corrie ten Boom

choices

"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart.  Pursue them."

~  Anonymous

seed bomb fun

How to grow a garden when you don't have time to grow a garden because in any free time you may possibly have, you're growing a toddler and a preschooler instead, and hopefully turning them into semi-normal children. Fingers crossed everybody.

Now let's get down to some hard-core 15 minute gardening!

Step 1: Get a lovely Seed Bomb Kit from LAUrbanHarvest.etsy.com -- ours is the Wild Flowers standard mix.

Step 2: Follow the wonderfully simple instructions within the kit which will show you how to make seedbombs which look like meatballs...but don't eat them. And when your 2yr old tries to eat them, tell her there's worm ca-ca in there, and she'll stop eating them immediately...and then she'll feed it to the dog.

Oh and be very very glad that the instructions contain cute little photos...because if you're anything like me these days...you'll be reading instructions while at the same time slapping your eyelids to stay awake because of all the nighttime awakenings and nursing...and also doing the whole falling-back-asleep-thing just to awaken to swift kicks from a spunky 4yr old who insists on sleeping in the "big-bed" even after telling him his big boy bed is way better. Then baby girl hears her Mama getting the junk beat out of her TaeKwonDo style, so she wakes up scratching her Mama to nurse, yet again.

Let's move on, shall we?

Step 3: Get "Little Night Kicker" and his sidekick "Little Miss Scratchesalot" together, and schedule a playdate with a couple of their best buddies. Have them toss the seedbombs out into the yard. Notice the one-footed monster.

 

Step 4: Have patience. :)

so live your life

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. 

- Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee Nation