"You know what I want?' I said. "I want Peter to put his hand behind my head when we kiss." I looked at her. "Do you know the kiss I mean?'

She nodded, and then said, "Men don't kiss like that in real life. have you ever had a kiss like that?'

I couldn't remember. I'd had some great kisses. But the architecture of them was starting to fade.

"I"m going to teach Peter how to kiss like that."

"If you have to teach him, " Amanda said, "it won't be the same."

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Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center

This is the second time I've read this book and again...this excerpt hits me. I've read and re-read so many times....and I still come up with the same end result...HE does kiss like that. Every freakin' time. Even if its just a lil smooch in passing....it could be a 2 second kiss and he kisses just like this with a quiet intensity...almost like...he thinks it will be our last...

okay...enough TMI....

How's everyone doing? Please check out Puna's blog for her contest. Well not just for the contest but also because she has such a huge soul and a presence about her. She reaches out in so many ways, through her blog, her community, her neighborhood and BY email...she is a GREAT person.

Summer is winding down and the boys will start school in about 3 weeks...they are excited and truth be told...i am excited too. But it also makes me a little nostalgic..soon Okoye will be a senior and then he will be headed for college. More than likely it will be out of state...and then Jalil will be a senior in a few years. Even though he says 'I will never move away from home, Mom!'...something tells me he will. And then I will have an empty nest. Whew...how scary is that?

Its the weekend so get out and live life...after all...its the only one ya get!

!LIVE!

Hey folks..most of my readers (all of two and I love you both) have families...and most of us love to document our family by photo's.

Do you put your photo's in albums? Scrapbook them? Or maybe you frame them to sit them on table tops and counters...me...I do all the above but I would love to start putting them on my walls...but finding the perfect way to do it...kind of a challenge.

Lovely Puna is having a giveaway...a contest. She has been blessed with hosting a giveaway on her blog. The contest is for the opportunity to put the love of our families on display. I've seen others who have used Hello Canvas before and they look GAWGEOUS and even though I would love to win, I can not keep this too myself...

Head over to Puna's doorstep, see what all the hype is all about and enter...

Now which photo do I pick...hmmmmmmm

daddy and his daddy's girl....

i got to play a little bit in my garden...not really digging, planting or cutting back....just looking...taking a photo here and there...dreaming of new flowers to put in or old flowers to move around. When I'm outside Ducky goes with me...i think he has dreams of being a fierce feline...protecting his den...



but...i noticed i have a new visitor. i noticed this little creature...hanging onto the stalk of my gladiolus plants.....

is it coming or going??? you know...is he building his cocoon to become something beautiful or is he shedding his cocoon to move onto bigger and brighter things? it made me think of the story of the man who tried to 'help' a butterfly by forcibly taking the butterfly out of the cocoon before it was ready...

lately...i kind of feel like that butterfly...

my boys love the song California Girls by Katy Perry...I'm begining to think every generation has a California song....my generation had I'm Going Back to Cali by LL Cool J...sorta the same thing, isnt it

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my youngest now has strep. On Sunday, he has a headache that wouldnt go away and when he started to sound like he was talking through his ear, I thought oh oh...Monday morning I called our doctor and she called in a prescription for him. when I went to pick it up, the clerk said '$2.12.'....ummm no...that should be $8. She looked at me, blinked and said '$2.12'. i chuckled and asked if she was sure. She looked at me, blinked, looked at the bag and said '$2.12!....this time with a huge grin. I wanted to snatch her and plead with her to use complete sentences but i digress...Long story short...once I got home and gave him his medicine i found out they only gave us 2 pills with 9 refills to go instead of 20 pills with no refills. ummmm no...i am not coming in every day to get a refill... Called them back, talked in circles to someone who then informed me she couldnt make a decision, waited for the pharmacist to call and I informed her that I wasnt coming back in..that Iwould be in the next day. so when i went in, the prescription was free based on 'my trouble'. does that mean i was trouble or that they caused me trouble???

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my cousin asked me to come to his wife's birthday party and take pictures...she's already hired a photographer but he wants me to come and 'catch the good stuff'...gotta love men....

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and...in a last ditch effort to get my photo mojo going again...I'm doing this with Susannah Conway...Folks, words just arent coming for me lately and well, neither is taking pictures but maybe if I take the pressure off of having to come up with the words, maybe it will come easier... we can only hope...

Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.... well...that's how the song goes but its not so much true for me personally...Its not raining here but it IS Monday...

summer storms coming through...i love them....after its safe I get snap happy....