Once Upon a Mattress

My brother did some singing and even a very little dancing. Enjoy J - wish you could have been there. G was SOOOO funny, she spent most of the show trying to hide from Mr. F.






And apologies for the terrible sound quality on my camera :)

J talks

I took this video on my phone when the J's were visiting, which is why the quality is so bad. But since I am cleaning up my computer files I figured I would put it up here.

A Psalm of Life

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but and empty dream! --
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
but to act, that each tomorrow
Finds us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And out hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe're pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, -act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'rehead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints in the sands of time.

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

Ah, nothing like a favorite poem to bring perspective on a rainy day

Phew!

I will admit quiet fervently that I am not a quilter...at all. However I do have a firm belief that I should be able to figure out how to do most things and do them better than the average person. After finishing J's blanket I started one for baby C which I finished last night.



I am pleased that it does match the owl themed baby stuff J and I looked at. Target and J are apparently on the same wavelength.