My monkeys are my own personal fairy tale in real life...

My monkeys are my own personal fairy tale in real life...

Ramblings, Sentiments, Rantings and Musings

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I am a mother of 5 wonderful children and wife to one amazing Navy man. I am always changing things in my life, constantly learning something new and trying it out. I am a wannabe vegan, minimalist and currently living full time in an RV. Just for clarification, I say wannabe, because I know I am not perfect, but each day I strive to do the best I can. That's all I can expect from anyone no matter where they are in life. I learn something new everyday...mostly about myself and my little corner of reality. Life, to me, is loving, learning and making memories. These are better than all the tangible riches one can get their hands on! Besides, there will come a day when all I have left is my love and memories...so I'll stockpile as much of those as I can!
Birthdays...

How is it that I am writing about another birthday already. I can't believe that my first baby is now 14 years old. He is almost a head taller than me at 5'11". How can that be? He thinks it is great that I must look up to him. It makes me weepy! I can't help but look back to the days when he was sooo little and needy. Well Zachary was never really little, but he was a lot smaller than he is now! I remember the day he came into my kitchen ( I think he was 3 or 4) and he put is chubby little arms around my leg and looked up at me and said "Mama, how come little boys love their mama's so much?" I will so hold on to that for the rest of my days. How I love this child/man. It amazes me how time has flown and saddens me to know how close he is to adulthood and finding his own way in the world.

I wonder and hope about things like every mother I suppose. Will he make good choices? Will he want to come home lots and see us? Will he find the perfect someone for him and live happily ever after. Will we love her as much as he does? How will he handle the hard times because there will surely be some unfortunately. Will he raise his children similarly to how he was raised? I wonder, but for now I just love him as much as I ever have and more. I treasure the time he spends with us and try, try, try to be patient with teenage-hood as much as I can. Sometimes it is really tough! But love is really easy.

Happy birthday Zachary! I love you with all of my heart and am grateful that I was the one who was blessed to be your Mama!


Being silly, with cake icing.
Make a wish!
So grown up!
Here is a random picture of a baby bunny who frequents my garden. I know I should be aggravated with him, but just look at him!!! Cuuute! I'll shooo him away when he is bigger. Well when he is bigger he won't be able to fit through the chicken wire! Hehehe.

This is a picture that was supposed to be with the next post but ended up here. It is in Canyon City at the Royal Gorge where we visited this weekend. More of these pics to come in the next post. To beautiful not to show you more.
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"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience." -- Anne Sullivan