Beautiful

My trip to Paris will not include too much shopping

However I will be looking for an old statue like this

Those ones are owned by Rachel Ashwell

Which I find so beautiful

Like many people

I heard the news last night

That Miep Gies

The woman who helped Anne Frank to hide

Has died

I have read a book when I was young

That she was one of many ordinary people

Who helped in their own way

And not many of those people felt they were doing something special

Because there were just so many of them

Sometimes it is so easy to be disconnected

Because we see so much distractions everywhere

Somewhere deep within us

We turn blind eye

Knowing things are happening

And we forget

Places like Darfur

Then

One summer day I got a visit from our friend Maria

Who kept her hat on during the entire stay

Because she cut her hair really short

To donate for cancer patients

Reminding us special act

Is easily done

By ordinary people

Happy Wednesday!

Are you having good lunch?

(Images from shabbychic.com)

Mini Me

My agenda today is

Taking that mini me to her first dentist appointment

I asked my older girls' dentist if I should make appointment with her
And was kindly
Turned down
Possibly because how she acted at her sisters' dentist office in the past



So I am taking her to a dentist we have never been to

My little daughter always amazes me
By being a mirror image of me as a child


Having biggest sweet tooth
And being a youngest child
Who has tired mother and father
So eating healthy was forgotten


I don't know how my older children do it
They don't know it but I can't eat like them

They eat super healthy
Eating tofu
Drinking non fat milk
And eating vegetable sticks for snacks

Yes
I did that to them since they were very little
So they see no problem with those healthy foods


And I admit
I have those moments
Looking at them eating carrot sticks
Thinking
How can they think those are good...

Anyway


Are you starting to plan for Valentine's day?
The reason why I asked
Is because picking a gift for man
Is seriously difficult

I have been picking books he might like
But that is getting old, too

What do you give on Valentine's Day?
And no...That doesn't include big screen TV..



Have a wonderful Tuesday!

Paris...Here We Come!

A part of my new year's resolutions this year

Was taking Chloe to another country to visit

My mom let me and my sisters pick a country to visit

When one of us graduated school

And those are some of my greatest memories growing up

So when I became a mother

That was something I dreamed of

Although I cannot take all of our children

Which is good in some sense...you know what I mean ;)

I am really looking forward for this trip

Chloe is finishing elementary school this year

Which means it has been 10 years of me being a mom with all the fun and hard work that came with it

So it is time to cerebrate

....And my non existing French

Will test French people's kindness ;)

Because I would love to venture out and visit their country side

Have a wonderful night!

What is your fun new year's resolutions?

(Image 1: Fricker; Image 2,3,4,5 from Lee Magazine)

White Bed Room

Hello Sunday!

I am making my bedroom creamy white today

White rooms can be stark
And boring
But I am planning to use different shades of white
Like those rooms

Did you have a relaxing breakfast?

Hoping you a happy Sunday!

(Image 1: Traditional Home Magazine; Image 2&3: Country Home Magazine)