Quote of the Day...

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
from "The Matchmaker"

---Thorton Wilder

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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

---Albert Einstein

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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

---Abraham Lincoln

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.

---Helen Keller

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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
--- Anne Frank

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Personally, I didn’t get it. But then, I was just proud I could distinguish between the symbols for Toyota, Ford, and Chevy. This car was glossy black, sleek, and pretty, but it was still just a car to me.

Bella Swan , Breaking Dawn , Chapter 1, p.5

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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
---Michelangelo

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
---Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

---Carl Sandburg

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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
---C.S. Lewis

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For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
---Doug Larson

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

---Laurence J. Peter

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
---Ellen DeGeneres

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Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
---Groucho Marx

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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

---Robert M. Hutchins

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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

---Walt Disney

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Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
---John Dewey

Life Happens!

Well, I was planning on listing some items for Etsy on Wed. night after we got back from the apartments that my husband and I manage, but he decided to have a fight with the lawn mower, so we went to the ER instead. (The lawn mower WON!) He's lucky - he gets to keep his fingers, as long as they heal OK.

But this got me thinking about life and the impossible situations that happen on a daily basis! How do you cope with the ER visits, notes from school that the kids don't give you until too late, the dog that will not be potty trained, or the constant stack of dishes in the sink and clothes in the hamper?

I am a fairly organized person and love to admit that I can schedule my family for anything and make it work, but it seems these days that all I want to do is make it stop! I just want to throw the clothes out and buy new (But I don't make THAT much on Etsy!) and start using paper plates every night. But this wouldn't be right!

So what is your trick for keeping the balance just right for your household? Tell me - I need some help right now!! :-)

Take care all! Megan

Quote of the Day...

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
---Walt Disney

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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

----Thomas E. Lawrence

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
---Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655

What a busy time its been!

We have been busy, busy, busy at my house here lately! Besides colds, flu bugs, sick dogs, backyard remodeling nightmares, and windy soccer games, there's not much to discuss this evening!

I should be listing some great new items on my etsy site here soon, including an adorable board book made with a recycled board book. It makes me feel good to re-purpose something and have been leaning that way lately in my creations! I can't wait for you all to see them!

Keep reading for a new Tip of the Week coming soon also! Thanks! Megan :-)

Quote of the Day...

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
---Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
---Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)

Celebrate Mom

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

Quote of the Day...

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
---Robert Orben

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
---John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"

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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. ---Bill Cosby (1937 - )

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ---Anatole Broyard

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. ---Bob Dylan (1941 - )

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. ---Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. ---Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

I've had a couple of requests to see my craft area...

Well, this is it! It's not very pretty, but it is completely functionaly! I have everything that I need in a completely "Megan-Organized" way. Let's see photos of your creation area!!

Quote of the Day...

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

---George Carlin

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A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

---Phyllis Diller

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

---Titus Maccius Plautus

More Family cards done...

I've got some weddings coming up, can you tell?