a midnight exchange

They lay in the still, quiet, darkness - almost asleep.

She found his hand in the covers and held it.

"I love you so much. You make me so happy." she whispered.

A moment passed.

Then he placed her hand over his heart.

"You made my heart race." he said.

Still in love.

They Deserve an Oscar

The Oscar Noms are in and that means time to weigh in. These are my pics, NOT necessarily me predictions. To see the full list of nominations click here. Here goes!

BEST PICTURE

The Artist

LEAD ACTOR

Brad Pitt for Money Ball

LEAD ACTRESS

 Viola Davis

(although I have not yet seen 'My Week with Marilyn')

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christopher Plumber for Beginners (he was AMAZING)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 Melissa McCarthy for Bridesmaids

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Rango

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

 A Separation

ORIGINAL SONG

Real in Rio from Rio

Only has TWO nominations? 'Man or Muppet' and 'Real in Rio'

I think if a Muppets song was going to be nominated it should have been "Life's a Happy Song'.

Sunshine Saturday: Advanced Style

This week's SUNSHINE SATURDAY is a highlight of a blog I recently heard about called Advanced Style. It is all made up of women aged 70 and above (up to 100 years old!) who are committed to being stylish and showing personal flair through clothing and accessories. 

Holy Awesome.

Here are a few of my favorites from browsing the site this week (click to enlarge).

Also, make sure to check out the section called "I'm proud to be _____ years old".

 These women do charity events, pilates classes and lead active, amazing lives. I swear, if Matt dies first (which I will be very sad about) I am taking whatever retirement money we had saved, moving to Manhattan and becoming these women.

Are you as inspired as I am?

Have you ever....

stayed at the Olive Garden 

until it was a full 30 minutes 

past closing because you were having 

too much fun with your girlfriends 

at Book Club to go home?

I have.

Thanks girls.

P.S. Sorry about the severely unflattering picture.
But the mid-laugh joy was too much for me to pass up.

random thought thursday

i finally got all of

the negatives from my

humanitarian trip to Africa

put onto a picture CD.

it only took 11 years.

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Bianca is 50/50

walking and knee-walking.

progress.

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i feel like i should apologize

every time i beat someone

in Scrabble or Words With Friends. 

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our Christmas tree is still up.

super-pathetic.

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Evangeline:

"We believe in God, the maternal otter  
and in his song, Jesus Prize,  
and in the scary ghost".  

Close, little Mormon girl. Close.

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if this isn't the cutest

valentine's day photo shoot

i don't know WHAT is.

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on a related topic:

will i ever have a boy?

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have you seen my

Plucky Momo shop?

because it's filled with

super-cute Project Life printables.

i'm just sayin'.

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