WINTER DREAMS online Store Opening!

ANNOUNCING THE ONLINE STORE OPENING OF

WINTER DREAMS
at
winterdreams.etsy.com

If your goal this year for Christmas is to give beautiful fun one of a kind gifts to the people on your list that seem to have it all
or to continue your plight to reuse in an effort to lessen your landfill footprint ...
WINTER DREAMS
Handcrafts is the one stop shopping for you!

WINTER DREAMS
"ReNew Your Spirit Line "
Beautiful clothes, bags, etc out of recycled material.



WINTER DREAMS
"Handcrafted Line"
One of a kind handcrafted items:
Felted Christmas ornaments, designer knitted scarfs... Just to name a few!



Be sure to mention that you are a friend of BW&G in your order and I will hand deliver your WINTER DREAMS order to you anywhere in the KC Metro area!!!

THANKS SO MUCH for helping make WINTER DREAMS a reality!

Joanna

ETSY
Your Place to Buy and Sell All Things Homemade

winterdreams.etsy.com

A Home School Day

I know the jury is still out for home schooling. I anticipate it will be until my girls solve world hunger, cure cancer, run the country or win American Idol.

But, today is one of those days that I am just not worried about the jurors.

My fourteen year old has had a busy day: talking to her girl friends, watching t.v., checking Facebook to see who her favorite guy is a fan of today. Now she is relaxing in their computer room knitting a scarf and watching a documentary on World War II.

My younger daughter's busy day included: watching Discovery Channels video on angles and CREATE t.v., playing with her cats, making lunch. Now she has scattered her paints on the table and is not just painting but experimenting with her paints; mixing them on and off the page, etc.

For whatever else comes, in this moment their time is their own. That gift to them puts a smile on my face and gives me great pride in this part of who they are.

"If you can't believe,
if you can't accept anything on faith,
then you are
doomed
for a life
dominated by doubt."
- Kris Kringle

I often find myself looking out windows.

It seems such a bizarre habit. It's as if I have been sleep walking only to awake and find myself looking out one of our windows. Staring. Staring off into the same scenery I have seen day in and day out.

Is it a place for no thought; a minute to get lost in? I really don't know.

I do this most while I am standing in the bath tub waiting for the water to fill. I stare out the window above the tub into our back yard. It is a disastrous sight; overgrown weeds, broken toys, a pool we never figured out how to get to fill up correctly.

Still I stand there ... staring.

Another strange habit I have is watching my daughter's turtle, Jen.

I seem to be drawn into Jen's apparent quest for freedom. She swims at full speed to ram her head into the glass boundary...over and over and over; day after day after day.

Each time she makes her swim back from the glass, unsuccessful, I wonder what she is thinking...

"Just one more hard hit and I am out of here."

But even more then that I admire her, where does she find the courage inside herself to keep her plight going, to head back towards her window time after time after time.

Or ...

is it simply a habit and she too has no idea what the hell she is doing much less why.

I am thankful that at least for the moment I have one up on the turtle -
I am not ramming my head at my bathroom window, at least not at full speed!

Love's Quandary:

To miss someone you feel lonely with!

Don't Invite a Snail to your Pity Party.

I heard a tiny slurping
coming from the grass.
It was a snail drinking from
the self pity I was dripping.

I leaned down and looked him
square in the antennas to ask,
"You mean I am not the only thing
going on right this very minute?"

With a sigh and a splash
Snail started to leave, but
not before mumbling,
"Why does this always happen to me!"

3 Teen Girls!

1 white beaded necklace draped as a sash
2 headphones for 1 MP3 player
3 TEEN GIRLS!
4 cell phones
5 fingers texting while she talks with her beau on a different phone
6 messages taken for their friend playing on the soccer field
7 hoop earrings
15 bracelets
1,000 laughs