Posted in Randomness on April 30, 2008 | 21 Comments »
The Good - My mother flew into town yesterday and will be with us for the week. Yay!
The Bad - Count Dooku appears to have an allergy to something. Lately his eyes have become very red and itchy at random. Today though he really scared me when after a 28 minute drive he got out [...]
Posted in Contests and Giveaways on April 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So the voting for April’s Photo Contest is now open! My photo is in there so if you liked it, go ahead and vote for it eh?
Posted in Contests and Giveaways, Writing on April 25, 2008 | 20 Comments »
You see it in my header.
You see it in my avatar.
You see it on my social networking profiles.
That is because it is the photo which most identifies what I am and will always be, no matter how big those hands get. A Mother.
Hands
A sonnet
© Summer Owens
The hand that clenches my finger so tight
Will only this [...]
Posted in Contests and Giveaways on April 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The ladies at 5 Minutes for Mom are having an amazing giveaway event.
They’ve kicked it off with a themed photo contest: Motherhood. The winner will receive…$1,000 dollars.
I am really excited to see all of the personal photographic interpretations of motherhood. Especially from you, my regular readers. I think this contest will be [...]
Posted in Contests and Giveaways, Photos on April 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »
For April’s Photo Contest
Posted in Photos on April 25, 2008 | 17 Comments »
This is Modest Mary. She looks a bit plain from the outside
but her true beauty shines from within.
This is Graceful Gabby. She is lovely inside and out and well
rounded besides.
This is Wild Wendy. She prefers a look untamed, just for the
sake of shock value. And of course, she’s all about having fun.
This is Confused Claire. [...]
Posted in Contests and Giveaways on April 21, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Yet something has happened to me today. After spending hours perusing the ginormous list of giveaways happening around the blogosphere, I’ve suddenly struck a silly chord.
Maybe it was my ending every entry with an exclamation mark, Great Giveaway!, I would love this!, Thanks for the opportunity! that drove me crazy. But I had to do [...]
Posted in Kid Specific on April 21, 2008 | 29 Comments »
So April 19th 2008 has come and gone and my Angel girl is officially one year old. I even made an extra effort to savor her newness and the first year still flew by. Angel girl’s birth story in brief:
Little Angel girl came into our world yesterday. Hubby and I arrived at the hospital at [...]
Posted in Kid Specific on April 18, 2008 | 11 Comments »
It was 85 degrees yesterday. EIGHTY FIVE. Of course we had to go out and enjoy the fine weather. So after picking Count Dooku up from school, we drove to our favorite playground. I settled down around the sand box where Count Dooku was playing. Then I encouraged Obi Wan to join his brother. Obi [...]
Posted in Randomness on April 17, 2008 | 23 Comments »
If you read my recent purse post, you may have been able to surmise that I am very much a girl of the Au Natural mindset when it comes to makeup. This doesn’t mean that I won’t brush on some eye shadow and mascara from time to time, but that is as far as making [...]
