a new venture {sometimes}

so.
what's up?
sorry, i don't really know how to start this. i've nothing witty and enticing to say.
{sometimes} i can struggle to be vulnerable...
i think this is because i used to allow myself to be vulnerable to the extreme.
and there needs to be {balance}.
this is going to be a little experiment that i will run via my blog.
i don't really know how many people read this, but i figured it's going to be good for me, even if {no one} ever reads it.
i'm going to try my darnedest to post {once a week}
a new {sometimes} that will reveal something about me that you may not have know.
feel free to comment.
or not.

here goes.

{sometimes} i need to remember that it's ok to let out my emotions.
again, in my past, along with being TOO vulnerable with people...well with the wrong people maybe, i used to be {freakishly} emotional. really i would let my emotions rule me.
i would cry at the drop of a hat.
i would let how i was {feeling} drive the actions i would take.
i would emotionally wrap my heart around a person *ahem* boy and then get hurt when it didn't work out.

so i stopped being so emotional.
for a {long} time casey was the only person really would could elicit tears.
ahhh....the early days of marriage.
i think i became so set on not letting my emotions rule me, that i forgot that it's {ok} to cry.
it's ok.
the exception to this was when i was preggers and {ridiculously} hormonal.
once i cried over cantelope.
seriously.

so i'm learning that {sometimes} it's ok to feel emotional.
when i watch that touching video about a family getting to take their adoptive baby daughter home for the first time or when i think of the incredible blessings that the Lord has heaped upon casey's business or when i think of my sister, sam, and how our friendship has grown and blossomed over the years, and i feel the tears well up, i don't have to staunch them at the edges of my eyelids. i can allow them to spill over and run down my cheeks.
i want my daughters to see the beauty of being feminine, of feeling compassion for others, of having a tender heart.
and one way to show them that is to {sometimes} show them my tears.

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*gasp* i heart this bracelet...right up my fashion alley.


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{Manga, this one's for you}

amelia sure likes to "talk".
her very first (and dominant) word was
{mama}
ahhh, *melt*
then of course,
{dada}
her manga (a mixed up way of saying grandma)
worked hard to teach her
{uh oh}



isn't she just the {cutest} chubby thing you've ever seen?

{what's happening at our house?}

{A lot}

I tell you.
It's warm outside, which is great. So there has been lot's of playing around outside.
Delaney thinks she is a {ballerina} and is constantly walking on her toes saying, "Look, I'm a pretty ballerina." To which I reply, "Yes, yes you are." {so cute!}
I started "homeschooling" if you will, Laney a few months ago, and she {loves} it.
My business is still going strong and I'm enjoying the pace of it.
Not too much to do, not to little.
{Finally} Millie is what you might call "crawling". Really her legs have nothing to do with it, she just {drags} herself with her arms.
And she loves to babble.
note video below.

Our next door neighbors tree produces {apples} which i hate.
i don't hate apples, per say, it's the squirrels that knock the apples into our yard.
and the squirrels that drive the dogs crazy.
That is a 6 foot fence that Toby the silver dog is peeking over...
note video below.

We are taking a little road trip to Manhattan, KS to visit some {old} friend who've planted a {new} church there.
And the {biggest} news of all:
Casey is no longer employed by
Markley Motors as a body mechanic.
nope.
He's a business man, my man is. :O)
After much{ prayer and petition} to the Lord.
After much {counsel} from wise friends and family.
After much {crazy hail}.
Casey is now pursuing {Fine Edge} his Paintless Dent Repair business
{full time}
{Praise God}. Seriously, praise Him!
Praise God, the work is already flowing in.

And that's about it.

{so so so....}

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