kjuly

kjuly, originally uploaded by MsMamaK.

Today she is 8..I feel happy and sad at the same time.
She is the best part of my everyday, and has been since she was born.
In my daughter's eyes, I can see the future.
A reflection of who I am,
An' what will be.
An' though she'll grow an', some day, leave:
Maybe raise a family,
When I'm gone, I hope you'll see,
How happy she made me,
For I'll be there, in my daughter's eyes
- Martina McBride

We had a Hannah Montana Birthday Party, she had a wonderful time with her cute friends at the bowling alley. I love her more then she will ever know.

Design & Declutering

Winter cleaning is somewhat like spring cleaning. I am attempting to so the fall winter clean up thinga round here, I think it may be a huge negative when you have to live with the changing of the season. It feels so good though to declutter, if I could only spend more time to it.

10 Commandments of Good Design

Dieter Rams is one of the most influential industrial designers of the late 20th century. He wrote his 10 commandments of good design:
Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.

Harvest Time

pumpkin, originally uploaded by MsMamaK.

So last week, we went to the pumpkin farm, this is an annual family tradition. The children have gone since we moved here., age seventeen months for k and since birth for s. They enjoy going not just for the farm, pick the pumpkin off the vine experience, but all of us together and the simplicity of it. Or as I would like to believe that is what they are getting from it. It is a real farm with lots of open space., old apples trees perhaps over a 100 years old. This farm has been run for generations. It will contiue as such., we were lucky enough to meet the farmer's grandson's wife, so I can imagine this farm will be here for many more years, as she was a new young mother. She gave us a small quick tour and much to my delight I saw more of the farm I never knew exisited. We all had a blast!

do you like apples?

do you like apples?, originally uploaded by MsMamaK.

Mom and Dad were here last week and it was so much fun. We went apple picking, and went through a corn maze, went out to dinner and had a few great dinners at the table togther as a family. We had a lovely visit.