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<em>Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.</em></div>
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I just love watching him, wondering what he's thinking</div>
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as he plays so intently. I can see his wheels turning.</div>
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It's one of my many small pleasures in life.</div>
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able mabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819423041089598437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936896842173436503.post-45630828090571614382014-10-06T03:00:00.000-06:002014-10-06T03:00:04.887-06:00Motivational Monday, Week 40<div align="center">
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<em>There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it.</em></div>
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Thru the eyes of a child.</div>
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He knows rocks are a hoot to throw, but he doesn't understand why.</div>
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<em>There is no pillow so soft as clear conscience.</em></div>
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I hopped on the swing at the park the other night.</div>
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Photo creds to my oldest daughter.</div>
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<em>You never know when you're making a memory.</em></div>
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(It's a small world. Maple Grove is near where I grew up.)</div>
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After consulting my husband, I agreed to do it.</div>
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Once I thought I was ready to start, I ran into a few hiccups.</div>
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I forgot to order more able mabel tags to put on each blanket.</div>
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I put in several long days at my sewing machine.</div>
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Luckily, on the last day I had my oldest girls help me.</div>
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We got them all done in no time!</div>
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The stacks went up past my knees when I stood next to them.</div>
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Oh, the things you learn when you take on a project</div>
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But, I got it done and I'll always remember it!<br />
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<em>Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.</em></div>
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This little Loves is always singing. </div>
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Motivation Monday, Week 32</div>
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<em>A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.</em></div>
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<em>-Pioneer Girls Leaders Handbook</em></div>
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able mabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819423041089598437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936896842173436503.post-89286686896191101912014-08-04T03:00:00.000-06:002014-08-04T03:00:03.322-06:00Motivational Monday, Week 31<div align="center">
Motivational Monday, Week 31</div>
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Motivational Monday, Week 30</div>
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<em>When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to fish;</em></div>
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<em> something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.</em></div>
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able mabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819423041089598437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936896842173436503.post-19992780863176943162014-07-21T03:30:00.000-06:002014-07-21T03:30:01.508-06:00Motivational Monday, Week 29<div style="text-align: center;">
Motivational Monday, Week 29</div>
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<em>Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.</em></div>
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Motivational Monday, Week 28</div>
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<em>Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.</em></div>
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Motivational Monday, Week 23</div>
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<em>Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, </em></div>
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Motivational Monday, Week 22</div>
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<em>There are a thousand tiny things from which one can weave a bright necklace of little pleasures of one's life.</em></div>
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Nature and sunsets are definitely part of that necklace.</div>
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I'm linking up to <a href="http://sixmenandalens.blogspot.com/">Gloria</a> this month.<br />
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able mabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819423041089598437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936896842173436503.post-45004776315882728162014-05-26T03:00:00.000-06:002014-05-26T03:00:02.783-06:00Motivational Monday, Week 21<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em>Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.</em></div>
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Linking up to <a href="http://thebuttoncollection.blogspot.com/">Rachael</a></div>
able mabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819423041089598437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936896842173436503.post-66583825420120884742014-05-19T03:00:00.000-06:002014-05-19T03:00:01.903-06:00Motivational Monday Week 20<div style="text-align: center;">
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<em>I don't know what the big deal is about old age. </em></div>
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<em>Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.</em></div>
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As I was out and about this past week, </div>
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I came across this group of sweet old ladies.</div>
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They agreed to let me take some pictures of them.</div>
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it all ended well and boy, did they shine from the inside!</div>
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Linking up to <a href="http://thebuttoncollection.blogspot.com/">Rachael</a>.</div>
able mabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819423041089598437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936896842173436503.post-30225266597542463722014-05-12T03:00:00.000-06:002014-05-12T03:00:02.587-06:00Motivational Monday, Week 19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em>Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. </em></div>
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<em>Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.</em></div>
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For some, the mothering instinct comes so naturally to them</div>
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and it comes early in their life.</div>
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Linking up to <a href="http://thebuttoncollection.blogspot.com/">Rachael</a>.</div>
able mabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819423041089598437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936896842173436503.post-3068257474693490902014-05-05T13:28:00.001-06:002014-05-05T13:28:52.125-06:00Motivation Monday, Week 18<div align="center">
Motivational Monday, Week 18</div>
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<em>The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fail.</em></div>
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(I seem to have gotten really good a failing to get a blog post done on time.</div>
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I should have used that for my pictures this week. :) )</div>
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(These quotes are proving to be quite difficult to work into a photograph.</div>
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Maybe that's why I'm procrastinating so horribly this year.</div>
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I'm not always so certain my pictures fit the quote correctly</div>
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Linking up to <a href="http://thebuttoncollection.blogspot.com/">Rachael</a> this month.</div>
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<em>When you have nothing to laugh about, laugh anyway. </em></div>
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<em>Soon you'll feel the healing power of joy and laughter</em></div>
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<em> bringing new energy and life to your weary, frustrating day.</em></div>
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<em>-Thelma Wells</em></div>
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All I can do is throw my hands up and laugh,</div>
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<em>Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. </em></div>
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This quote is so true for me when it comes to</div>
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When I get to a hard spot, I am so quick to put my foot down</div>
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If I would just try one more time or try a little harder,</div>
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I could ride a more of the trails.</div>
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Linking up to <a href="http://teraam.blogspot.com/">Maaret.</a></div>
able mabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819423041089598437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936896842173436503.post-45072882236177671412014-04-20T15:57:00.001-06:002014-04-20T15:57:39.870-06:00Motivational Monday, Week 15<div style="text-align: center;">
Motivational Monday, Week 15</div>
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<em>When someone cares</em></div>
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<em>It is easier to speak</em></div>
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<em>It is easier to play</em></div>
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<em>It is easier to work</em></div>
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<em>When someone cares it is easier to laugh</em></div>
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This post is a week late. </div>
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We have been busy the last two weeks with a move to a new house</div>
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able mabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819423041089598437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936896842173436503.post-42941858386297425792014-04-07T03:00:00.000-06:002014-04-07T03:00:03.990-06:00Motivational Monday, Week 14<div style="text-align: center;">
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Week 14</div>
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<em>Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.</em></div>
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<em>-Og Mandino</em></div>
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I messed a bit on this week's quote. </div>
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I read it once at the beginning of the week</div>
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and then didn't double check it to make sure I had it correctly.</div>
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I missed the <em>Always do your best</em> part of it,</div>
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and just did the rest of it.</div>
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When we first moved into our house almost 5 years ago,</div>
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this tree was a dead stick with a few tiny green branches</div>
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coming out of the base of it.</div>
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We started watering it to see if it would come back to life.</div>
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It did.</div>
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Several times a year, my husband prunes and shapes the tree.</div>
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It is now a tree the kids can climb in,</div>
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have a picnic under,</div>
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it's starting to provide shade to our house,</div>
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we can wrap one end of the slack line around it.</div>
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All it took was a little bit of TLC.</div>
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Linking up to <a href="http://teraam.blogspot.com/">Maaret</a>.</div>
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able mabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819423041089598437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936896842173436503.post-68428994220252009642014-03-31T03:00:00.000-06:002014-03-31T03:00:09.598-06:00Motivational Monday, Week 13<div style="text-align: center;">
Motivational Monday, Week 13</div>
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.</div>
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-Victor Kiam</div>
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Have you ever watched a baby learn how to crawl?</div>
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Especially when they try get up on their knees?</div>
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Time after time, they fall on their face, </div>
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but as long as they are still moving forward,</div>
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they are happy.</div>
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(and fast when they're trying to get Mom's camera.)</div>
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Linking up to<a href="http://teraam.blogspot.com/"> Maaret</a> this week.</div>
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