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A ONEderful First Birthday Party with DIY Decorations and Brushstroke Unicorn Cake
Celebrating you, Sweet Girl, is the most wonderful thing! You are sweetness, you are joy, you are giggles, you are filled to the brim with wonder, just as we have prayed for you before you were even born. We had to have a ONEderful birthday party celebrating you! A ONEderful birthday party with fun and color and magic! And I wanted to make absolutely as much as I could for it to make it special – from the decorations to the cake, because, you know, I helped make YOU! Other posts featuring Little Wonder: Little Wonder’s Baby Nursery Your Top Questions About Cloth Diapering Answered Cloth Diapering 101: Where to…
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To the Delicate and Strong
The most delicate and beautiful of spring flowers are the first to show up after months and months of bitter cold and wind. In time they fight and sprout up through the dark, cold earth even through remaining ice and snow. And then guess what? They bloom. Perhaps more beautiful than the flowers that come mid-summer in the warmth and sunshine are those that flourish despite the bitter cold, in the bitter cold. They shout to the world that spring is here though the world cannot quite feel it yet. Delicate and seeming like they shouldn’t have come forth at all, through the most unlikely circumstances there they are radiating…
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The Keeper of Your Dreams
I have so many dreams. Dreams of what could be, what I could do, what I could create, what I could do with my creativity…it goes on and on. To be inside my mind when I am dreaming feels like soaring high above the universe with explosions going off everywhere and it’s just magical. Too trippy for you? That’s ok. Back to reality. I love to dream. But my dreams often paralyze me. Inside my mind they can run free and there can be hundreds, thousands! But as they approach the door to reality there is a massive pile up. A newsworthy, massive pileup. Just think of dreams trying to…
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COVID-19: Faithfulness in Murky Waters
There are many sad things included in this time of pandemic and many changes that are hard to swallow. If you are reading this now and are feeling sad or hopeless, anxious or fearful – that is hard and I am sorry you’re feeling that way. To many degrees I can never understand what you may be going through. But in my own little world, I am feeling some of those things. Matt and I have gone through a fair share of crises for being in our 20s (and I mean Matt mostly) and to some extent feel used to life’s plans getting flipped upside down. That is taking the…
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Baby’s First Halloween
Their creepy and their kookyMysterious and spookyTheir all together ooky… It was a SWEET little Halloween for a little babe… … and for a little dinosaur! RAWR. Analeigh must be the scary one, Hiro doesn’t like to get too close to her. Haha! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HAPPY HALLOWEEN! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Baby’s FIRST SNOW came on Halloween! (also…
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Halloween ‘Boo!’ Bags
Halloween – I love Halloween! Memories of picking what I would dress up as (most often a witch) and getting ready that All Hallow’s Eve, going with my mom and meeting our family friends with excitement and a feeling of something magical to come, bundling up and crunching leaves underfoot while we sought out those small little lights on each porch that beckoned us to come and TRICK or TREAT, knowing which houses gave sweet, sticky popcorn balls and which were too scary to go up to alone. I was mesmerized by this one specific house with glass windows all down its front that lit up on that dark night.…
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Little Wonder’s Baby Nursery
Warm afternoon light reflecting cozily off a peach wall Rainbows made with hope and love of a little girl to come A place where unicorns and teddy bears come alive Where little plants grow along with baby toes Where cries are soothed by rocking And cold nights chided away with cuddles A little place of wonder Planned and set to life while our own wonder grew inside Want to shop the nursery? Scroll to the bottom! Click any links throughout or images at the bottom to shop. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This can help me build up this site of wonder! Wouldn’t that be fun?!…
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Fireworks Made for Wonder
Gazing up into a canvas of darkness, a small light – like that of a shooting star – can be seen tracing its way across the night. Up and up and up it goes. Eyes follow in anticipation, guessing at what form it will take. A flash! A burst! An echoing boom! And that small, lonely light traveling across the darkness bursts into a hundred, each leaving a glittering trail as it cascades down to earth below. A firework show is never without ohh’s and ahh’s and it’s no wonder why. Sitting below, watching a night sky light up and cascade down, so close it seems you can…
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Pruning Makes Me Cringe
Pruning makes me cringe. Why would you cut back something growing so wild and free?! When we were living in Asia there was always someone on the streets or on the campus pruning away – cutting back limbs, shaping bushes, etc. The place was immaculate in terms of gardens (not always in other terms.Ha!). It would frustrate me sometimes. In the fall gardeners would literally shake the trees until all the pretty oranges, reds and yellows fell and then they SWEPT THEM UP and took them away. . . “Wait, wait! Come back with my fall! (cry face)” Pruning makes me cringe and those gardeners took it too far –…
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Twist and Shout Natural Deodorant
Do you love me? I can really moveDo you love me? I’m in the grooveNow do you love me? Do you love me?Now that I can dance? Dance… Can you guess this song by the time you get to the bottom of this page? If you know me at all you know I sure couldn’t. HA! But, go ahead, go on down – you’ll want to listen to it as you get excited to MAKE YOUR OWN DEODORANT that won’t irritate those sensitive pits and actually works. FINALLY. I searched the natural blogs far a wide and tweaked up my own version after so many other natural deodorants (store bought…
