A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

I was looking through the pictures I took a few weeks ago of a hayride we did as a school trip with Biggest Girl's class and smiled when I came across this picture.  It was a beautiful Fall day and after 12 adult staff members (the teachers, aides and therapists from her school) patiently coaxed and lifted the 10 kids in her class out of their wheelchairs and onto the hay bales in the wagon, we set off for the bumpy ride to the pumpkin patch.  As I looked back on this row of wheelchairs patiently waiting for our return, I realized this one picture said it all for me.  My gratitude to the staff at Biggest Girl's school for patiently spending their days making her life better, my happiness that the kids were able to leave their wheelchairs and enjoy a little freedom and my thanks that the farm we visited went above and beyond to accommodate the class without making it seem out of the ordinary.  A thousand words of thanks would not be enough to express my gratitude.

And since Biggest Girl has no words.  Her smile is always enough.

Crafting with my Little People

 

I love to search ebay for vintage linens to use around the house.  I snatched up these 2 cat bibs a year ago in hopes of making them into pillows, but didn't have the heart to cut into them.  I realized over the weekend that they already had a backing sewn to them and by simply cutting off the neckties (from the bib) and poking a hole in the back, it would take about 10 minutes to make them into pillows.  Big girl was super excited to help.              

                                                       She stuffed them.....

                                                       And stuffed them....

     And then we were done. 

 One year and 10 minutes later, we have the 2 cutest pillows ever!

Happy Daylight Savings Time!

Happy Daylight Savings Time! 

 If falling back an hour leaves you scrambling to set all your clocks back

 and wondering if you have it right, check out the official U.S. time web-site at www.time.gov

I always look forward to "falling back" and getting one more hour of sleep. 

 How do you spend your extra hour?

A Quick Quote

"It's too sunny to be Fall!"

~Big Girl~

While searching our yard for the biggest leaf she could find.