books!
Posted on June 27, 2007
Well, it’s official, I’ve signed up to start selling Usborne Books! I’m so excited about this new opportunity!
If you have never heard about or seen an Usborne Book, head to my new Usborne website!
And PLEASE PLEASE consider hosting a home party for me! I need lots of friends and family to host parties so I can meet new people and then host parties for them! It’s a fun way to get your girlfriends together, eat, drink and buy amazing children’s book! I hosted a party for Tracy and we had a great time! And when you host you earn FREE books! Who can turn down something free? Let me know if you’d be interested in hosting for me!
Here’s the website: Usborne Books
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pondering change
Posted on June 27, 2007
This morning I got Parker down for a nap and Bailey in front of Sesame Street (yes I’m a bad mom, I use the tv to babysit) so I could blog crawl. Aside from being facinated by taking a peek into someone else’s life, I find true and amazing inspiration in other mom’s blogs. Especially b/c I mainly read other scrapbookers, photographers and artist’s blogs. So in blog crawling I stumbled across a post about change. It got me thinking.
Is change good? Is change just for the sake of change good? I always feel somewhat behind the times b/c we can’t afford to buy new decorations for our house and so I am the queen of reusing old things. For instance, there’s been a ladder laying in a yard down the street for a year (since we moved here at least) that I’ve been coveting. Finally I saw the home owner and asked her about it… she said I could have it! Yippee! An old ladder that’s been laying outside all year! Free decor! Anyway, at times I wish I was more trendy and current, but the more I think about it, is that really a good thing? Do I really want to be trendy just for the sake of change? If I had all the money in the world, would I get rid of all my old treasures?
My Grandma’s house never changed and I remember feeling comfort in that fact. The smells, sights and sounds were always there. The green shag carpet, the dining room table I used to love to lay under, the corner knick knack shelf with all the untouchables, her desk in the hallway and the Chicken in a Bisket crackers in the cabinet. I knew where the little white stool was to help her wash dishes and when we went to bed at night she listened to talk radio and the guy had the deepest voice I just loved falling asleep to. My sheets always smelled like Cashmere Bouquet Powder and we got to stay up late to watch Nick at Night with her.
Those things were a constant in my life. And even my mother’s house, that changes with every season, is constant. I know where to find a bandaid, I can tell where she’s going by the smell of perfume in her bedroom and my daughter sits in the same chair I grew up sitting in. It’s constant, it’s reassuring, it’s familiar and it’s HOME.
In thinking about change I think about my girls. I want them to have the same closeness and feelings when they walk into our home. I want them to remember the way I smell and feel. I want them to know where things are and have memories of the tiniest details of their life.
I think change is good in some aspects, like a new kitchen sponge every couple of weeks, changing the photos every once in a while to update the frames and to add a new treasure to my decor I just had to have (like my free ladder). But I think change, just for the sake of change, isn’t always good. Rather than buy new things, why not rearrange the old? I guess in the end, I don’t believe in being trendy or current, I believe in being true to what I love, and I love old things. And isn’t trendy pretty boring anyway?
This is something I know will be in my head all day, and probably all week. The idea of change in our everyday tiny little lives. The idea of changing just b/c we’re bored. Any thoughts?
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