Cool messy shots. It's good to be young at heart too. Anyway, thanks for being around always during 2007. Happy 2008 and may your life be filled with lots of love, joy, happiness, health, wealth and success for the new year and many years to come.
Your niece is lovely. She looks like a fun loving girl. Sorry about that bump on her head. Hope she's fine now. The other kids look so cute too. It's nice when adults join in the fun. Thanks for visiting.
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
28 comments:
Having fun to be messy is a joy.
Mine is ready too. Do come for a visit when you have a chance.
They all look like fun messes to me. Good choices.
very fun! hee hee!
I'd like to say all these mess look so much fun. I like the pink confetti. :)
What is it about kids and being messy? You've got lots of great photos of cute kids.
Adults love to be messy too! The bump on your niece forehead looks painful.
Happy New Year!
Wow.... looks like a messy fun!
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such cute shots! really messy! :)
thanks for the visit!
happy holidays!
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Besides the last two pictures the others seem rather normal to me and not messy, lol !
Your niece is such a cutie!!!
Have a great new year!
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The 2nd last picture looks like she had loads of fun before the mess! :P
Happy 2008!
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Oh this is so fun.. Everyone getting messy :D
My Version of Messy
I love it when kids throw themselves into their food. What cuties! Silly string can certainly make a mess!
The last 2 are kids at heart! Great, funny photos! Happy New Year, joy!
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Those are fun and messy photos.
Happy New Year!
Messy but fun. Thanks for stopping by ;)
Wishing you and your family good health and a grace filled 2008.
OMG how fun are those photos! Great shots!
Happy New Year to you and yours!
My goodness...you are surrounded by messy people! Great photos!
Nothin better than gettin messy from cake!
Always fun when mess is made with cake.
Those are some messy people! Hahaha!
those were a lot of fun. thanks for the chuckle
Nothing is so fun to look at as messy kids faces but the adults were pretty fun too.
Messy kids are really adorable! :)
I was going to comment yesterday but I got busy.
I like your messy picture but what your picture makes it special to me is the "beautiful smiles"
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Cool messy shots. It's good to be young at heart too. Anyway, thanks for being around always during 2007. Happy 2008 and may your life be filled with lots of love, joy, happiness, health, wealth and success for the new year and many years to come.
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Your niece is lovely. She looks like a fun loving girl. Sorry about that bump on her head. Hope she's fine now. The other kids look so cute too. It's nice when adults join in the fun. Thanks for visiting.
1, 4, 9 or 12 would get my vote. Gift money should be used for fun stuff. No can openers.
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