Soft

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The theme for today's Saturday Photo Hunt was soft and while there may be nothing soft in this picture it was the one word that I feel when I look at it. I love the softness of her face, the beauty of her eyes, even when closed, the halo of hair around her face and the utter softness and love I feel when I look at it. So this is my submission for today.

Life in a musical

It is impossible to be unhappy with Little Princess around. I sit in front of the television in the evening flipping channels trying to find something to watch and I hear a little voice singing with growing intensity, like an actor warming up for the big finale in the closing number of a great musical, her voice soars to new hieghts singing some song that only she knows. And I smile. As she winds down and moves on to a more melodic peaceful tune, I listen to her and think how blessed I am to have a child that awakes in the middle of the night and bursts into songs instead of tears. I have a child who comes out for a drink and a snack and trots happily back up the stairs in her droopy bum jammies with her dolly tucked tightly under her arm and plays and sings quite happily until she is ready to climb back into her big bed and go to sleep. Sure, she is awake and sure she is probably making a mess in her room, but isn't that better than the alternative. She is happy and she is just so happy that it bursts out of her in song. We should all live our lives that way.

The Sad Truth about Vegetarianism in this City

I have been searching in vain in this city in three stores now for a vegetarian cookbook or a magazine or at this point even a pamphlet with recipes in it for vegetarians would do. There is nothing. I can't find a lot of the staples people have in other areas. I live in the capital of this province and I can't find a darned vegetarian cookbook, Seitan, or Tempeh!!! I am going to try making Seitan when I get brave enough. But I do wish that there were more vegetarians in the fish and potatoes, meat-loving province I live in. To a lot of the people I know eating a vegetarian lifestyle is an unheard of concept and vegan is a foreign language. It isn't going to stop me but I had to let off a little steam about it. I can't be too upset about it, Little Princess is breaking into her third chorus of the "I love my peanuts song" that she is composing at the moment and I need to enjoy the moment.

Shopping Trip

I had a wonderful Girls day out with my neighbour. We went shopping bought stuff for our kids had fun spending too much money and enjoying our time out as adult women with no kids in tow who still saw our kids in every item on every shelf we saw. It was wonderful and Bought some shelves for a pantry in my kitchen that I am so proud of. They look wonderful and I thought it was a creative use of space. I will share pics with you later, but I just had to share how much fun a girl who hates to leave the house in the winter had today when she finally pushed herself out that front door. Thanks neighbour for the companionship and the trip. I had fun.