nursery rhyme wisdom

"make new friends....

...but keep the old...

...one is silver and the other gold."

dear patty

i dream of being just like you when i grow up. ever since i saw you in asheville with my bff mere i've longed to sit and enjoy music straight from your being again. and i think if we met, we'd be great friends. i'm so glad you're coming to charlotte. see you soon.

a new season.

It looks like I've dropped the ball on updating this sweet little blog...again. Despite popular opinion, I do love it so. And appreciate my small, but precious, readership. : )

Spring has sprung in Charlotte. Isn't there something about a new season that brings excitement? And hope? Yes, indeed...I am hopeful for this new season in Charlotte. Building sweet friendships. Learning and growing in a new position at the workplace. Exploring new places. Indulging in fresh produce. And becoming like the little birds....

The little birds trust God, for they go singing
From northern woods where autumn winds have blown,
With joyous faith their trackless pathway winging
To summer-lands of song, afar, unknown.

Let us go singing, then, and not go sighing:
Since we are sure our times are in His hand,
Why should we weep, and fear, and call it dying?
'Tis only flitting to a Summer-land.
--Selected

Happy Spring, little birds. Let us embrace it singing.

i've been dreaming...

...of a sweet candy shop like this one i fell in love with in london...

one day, if i'm able to have one of my very own, i'll sell candy by the pound in paper bags with a perfect rubber stamp marked on the outside.

i'd like to visit this one nie nie wrote about.

story people.

one of my favorite things in my room is a story people print i received for christmas this year.

it reads: "I remember when the whales had wings, she said. Whatever happened? I said. It got to be too noisy with all the airplanes & other stuff, so they flew into the ocean & never came back. Some days, she added, I think about going too."

i love it so much, today i decided to waste some time perusing their website and loved this one...

"This is a wheelbarrow I filled with all my dreams & my favorite clothes & now all I need is someone to help me push it."

and laughed really hard at this one...

titled "born for retail," it reads:

has always had the soul of an artist, but the instincts of an attack dog, so of course he went into retail

there's more where this came from.

happy february, dear ones!

cleat chaser.

this stage of my life has been defined by road trips. to see sweet friends in their respected cities all over the south. for engagement parties. and wedding showers. and senior recitals. and basketball games (this one has become particularly popular these days... : ) ). with all this traveling, i guess it's only appropriate that one would get in their first car accident, huh? (actually, it could be considered the 2nd...my senior year i caused $4,000 worth of damage on this man's custom painted bmw pulling out of my high school parking lot...that's a story for another time...)

well, today i took scout (short for "the boy scout," my beloved little volvo s40) to the car doctors to repair the damage done when i hit kyle parker heading south on 75 to tallahassee. uh huh. you heard right. kyle parker. for those of you that aren't familiar, he's clemson's quarterback who graduated high school a semester early to participate in spring workouts and decided he'd walk onto the baseball team, only to be their starting right fielder that season and 3rd in their batting line-up.

i'm sure you're all wondering as my grandfather, avid clemson fan and enthusiast, did...kyle parker is uninjured. he headed to valdosta shortly after, with only a scratch of white paint on the bumper of his ford escape after i collided into the back of him. he'll probably still win the heisman next year. no worries.

as for me (thanks for your concern), i'm also uninjured and forever grateful for the farmer from canada that was rving to florida with his wife to meet their new grandson that tied my bent hood down with wire he had in his stocked toolbox "just in case he came across something like this."

for your viewing pleasure...

https://www.bigtopcupcake.com/?MID=564291

...and my envy! who doesn't want an over-sized cupcake?! go ahead and try me...i bet you can't think of anyone, not even one person.