Isabelle's First Kiss....

I work on a laptop computer and lately it's gotten SO slow!  I cleaned up my "desktop"....which wasn't easy....had pics and folders everywhere!  It still didn't help very much though.  So I asked my husband to take a look and he asked how many pictures I had in my iPhoto file.  "I don't know....le'me take a look...."  

O...M...G...

Would you believe I have over 10,000 pictures????!!!!  Needless to say I'll be cleaning that puppy up over the next few months!   Aaarrrggh!  I'd rather reorganize my underwear drawer....
But I have to share one of my treasured finds with you.....

"Oooooww!  It looks like a catepillar!!!  Will it tickle???"

 ".....this is gonna be yucky....I just know it!"

"Sch-mack!!!!!

"Yuck!!! (pppth, pppth!) I knew it would be prickly!"

Awwwww....aren't Daddy's little girls just the BEST!!!

 

My Mother's Home Sweet Home....Our Home Away from Home

Visits to my mother's home are always a visit to "another land".  She decorates her home seasonally....and oh! to have that luxury!  It has been well earned by her though and did not come easily....working mother of three in the 60's through the 90's, lots of remodeling, and years of collecting all that stuff (okay, your're right....this was probably more fun than work!!).  But I digress....

While her rooms are decorated beautifully, it's the vignettes in their own special nooks and crannies that always catch my eye....and my daughters'.  I can always find one of them standing near her grand piano....staring at vintage pictures of her when she was a child....or gently touching a feather that has been laid near a bird's nest in a bookcase....

And speaking of birds, she definitely has an affinity for our dear feathered friends......

 

and robin's egg blue....she's always loved that color!  What a treat it is for us to get to stay with her!  It's like visiting a completely different home every time we go....and we love it!