danny boy.

this little boy has been my buddy the past few days.
through the 3+ years we've been watching him, [he's obviously been unofficially adopted into our family], and he's gone through phases of making different siblings his favorite person.
lately it's been me.
for a long while there, it was rachel.
before that, it was ben and me.
and before that, it was rachel again.
he wants to do virtually everything with me.
cook. bake. clean. put aprons on. paint with watercolors. watch movies with a snuggly blanket. and, when his mom can't make it, read stories at bedtime.

last night, anna, ben and i went to martha's house to learn and practice different swing dance moves in her barn, and we had a visitation to go to beforehand. danny wanted to be by me about every minute. and then when we were leaving in a separate car, he started crying and saying he didn't like "tomorrow" when i said i'd see him in the morning. i knew we'd be home late.
poor sweetie.

...btw, someone in singapore googled "idiosyncrasy" and found my blog. um.
this post.
i guess i was asking for it.

link love.

sarah, author of emerging mummy wrote a piercing, simply beautiful post:
in which [love looks like] a real marriage.

past and present biblical handbooks for church practice [a comic].

the series on ruth that natalie is currently writing and posting.
wonderful, fascinating... :)

this week's funky search words leading to the blog:
hillsong united concert   
shauna niequist blog   
mom playing acoustic guitar [?]   
artistic quotes
limitless tattoo   
morbid butterfly [?]   
1 peter 4:8 tattoos
beautiful brunette normal pic   
blue hillsong images
elegant snobbery

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search words and the like. :)

first of all, a song.

second of all, a post called

the weight of waiting.

by them chandlers. so. good. hardly any words for it.

third of all, the title subject:
search keywords:
limitless tattoo   
hillsong   
hillsong united   
i will be seeing you soon ♥   
sandwich chair definition   
josh garrels
limitless tattoos   
love artistic   
sunrise through a window   
swing dress

um, wow?
where on earth does "sandwich chair definition" come into play??
what the heck.

in other news, dad is watching the first season of white collar.
and anna is getting the second season for christmas....which we haven't watched yet....so we're kind of excited. :) family move night shall be reinstated once again.

search words and jason bourne.

when i see "philippines, manila" in my sitemeter, i confess my first thought is: jason bourne.
yep.
which . . . by the way . . . it's about time to watch one of those again sometime. :)
you remember the scene with the wall and the broken glass embedded in the top edge? [the ultimatum]
all that jumping through windows?
three times, i do believe.
site:blogspot.com coffee

what do you know . . . it leads to this: artistic endeavors: cream in my coffee.

and someone from bangkok, thailand googled
composition art
and was directed to this: it was about time for another house post.

and now for the list of the most popular search words leading to my blog lately...
there are always a couple of mainstays; take for instance: elenowen.
susan meissner   
coffee bible   
he makes beautiful things out of dust   
dear god make me a bird tattoo   
elenowen   
i like coffee painting   
carnival maternity pictures   
cheryl salem   
cinnamon chip scones recipe taste of home   
ee cummings tattoos

i've been painting quite a bit this week . . . almost time for a few more artistic endeavors posts. :)

and . . . anna and i are going swing dancing tonight with martha! [huge smile] 
[also, our friend anna is in another state for a 1-year bible college. so, we'll miss her there.]

search words, and my blog found on the net.

once i saw someone had googled "miraclesdontbreakthelawsofnature", i had to do so myself.
this is what i found.

brand new espresso colors tv/plasma stands.
under "blogs new espresso" you'll find a link to one of my posts mentioning espresso. heh.

scoop.it. creative photography.
links to one of my art posts.

123.people.de.
someone searched for anna rach? well. i've got that covered easy-peasy. older sister: anna. one of my younger sisters: rach. it linked to one of my life rambles.

now . . . the top search keywords:)
hillsong   
carnival photo shoot   
dear god make me a bird tattoo   
aura joon   
me on the swing   
photoshoot at the carnival   
tempurpedic people in ads   
underoath tattoos   
blueprints on how to build a branch bookshelf   
chicken curry rice naan
black yoga pants
freckles [see below picture. heh.]
hillsong united tattoos
books coffee laptop bible

i don't tan...
i do freckles.freckles.freckles!
and a birthmark.

and . . .
i'm off to brew a pot of coffee. anodyne coffee sounds pretty awesome. it's dark enough a roast that it doesn't have me jittery, freaking, and bouncing off the walls inside that caribou's morning blend had me a few months ago; and this coffee is smooth. there are some coffees that practically punch you in the mouth, and that's not a nice way to wake up if you have the luxury of drinking coffee every morning. 8 o'clock have a relationship like that, so i cut it off. it wasn't charming enough for me, even though it was a few dollars easier on the wallet. :P
it's a warm, muggy day. hopefully the last of the season, as it's almost september. one can hope, right? i fall in love with autumn weather every year. the metaphors that spring up in my head from seeing nature transform again in front of my eyes. the golden turning of the leaves. the breeze and the rainy days. the . . . everything.

mom met a lady up north, an owner of a shop that loves art and all that, and the lady actually lives down here, not far from our area. weird, huh? well, last night a few of us stayed up pretty darn late [me? 3am] finishing a couple paintings, typing up a list and details of the art, etcetera. this morning, at around 5:30am, the lady came and picked up 7 of my canvases, some of rach's flower hair accessories, ben's pens, and mom's knitted things... to take up to her shop and hopefully sell. :)
so! that's something new and interesting. 

monday, anna and i met heath and steph at a coffee shop for a few hours. [and derek --heather's boyfriend-- stopped by for a while, too.]

i was starving from having one of those random days of only drinking coffee. . . .
wait. i may have had fettucine with fresh garden tomatoes and basil. yeah. true.
but a bit of pasta and fresh veggies? er...not exactly a stick-to-your-ribs kind of meal.
so there i went to the counter, to purchase a plain bagel with garden cream cheese and a stick with grapes on it . . . and, after that, with my last dollar or so, a medium alterra coffee. as i always say, if you're near to being broke, spend it on the things you love the most. ;)

that says it all.

and for history's sake, a picture of steph and heath. :) listed by the visual, not chronologically. if you cared.
:)

i took these on the way home, monday.
hmmm.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
[Saint Augustine]