::Friends:: a kind reminder of what should be

“A friend is someone who helps you up when you're down, and if they can't, they lay down beside you and listen.”

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”

“Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away but there the fastest when you call.”

“Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.”

Mama's Mopine

With the passing of my mama recently, I am always delighted when I come across something that was so dear to her and our family.


My mother never kept paper towels or napkins, only mopines. A mopine is an italian term for napkin, hand towel, or wash cloth.

The listing reads...
mopine (moh peen, with the long e). A mopine was a dish towel that my mama and her family always kept by the stove. You would never, and I mean never move that mopine on Sundays. If you moved that mopine off the counter, and accidentally used it for another purpose, or placed it in the hamper, she would say, "where isa my mopine???bringa back the mopine". Never mess with the woman's mopine. No, Sundays are not Sundays without her favorite mopine.

LOVE.IT. * I bought two *

::babybe Facebook Fan Contest!!!

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babybe Fan Contest!!!! Become a fan, suggest to your friends, and post a comment to this post. Prize.... onesie and beanie of your choice along with the babybe blankie! The new onesie collection will be available Monday. SPREAD THE NEWS. Contest results will be posted Friday, May 21st! Be well. Oh and...if you ...are resposnsible for someone else becoming a fan = DOUBLE ENTRY.

Modern Day Romantic Love... or Hurt

For every one of you that ever feels frustration with your romantic love... this is the article for you.

Shambhala Sun | March 2010
You'll find this article on page 42 of the magazine.

MINDFUL LIVING: RELATIONSHIPS

Romantic Vision vs. Everyday Disappointment

Ode to Mamas

Ahhh... me and my mini me (p.s. my son, Shamus, refuses to take a picture with me! he's 10). She looks and acts like me (uh oh!). Tomorrow I will awake with my two babies and I am so thankful. Thankful for their health and for their happiness. In all that is life, there is so much to be thankful for.

We will go to where my mother rests peacefully tomorrow and say Happy Mother's Day for the first time with out her spirit on Earth. I bought her a hydrangea plant today, it looks just like the one she gave me last year for Mother's Day. She always honored me as a mother, that was the type of mother and woman she was.

Tomorrow is a day for honoring. Gifts are lovely... but tomorrow I am thankful. Thankful for gift of motherhood and having been blessed with having her in my life.

May the light shine upon you and within you. Jai Beghwan.

Spring on the babies!

I've noticed with the break in the weather the blossoming of flowers and the bellies of our expecting divine mamas! With so many expecting mama's, many of you maybe pondering what to get the modern mother...

Yummies


Try Vegan Green Tea Cupcakes from "Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World"








The Earth Element...












Inspiration



Born Yogi's Gift book









Comfort



mama and baby massage oil by Aromatic Health









Practical



Yum bib by babybe

::Food Revolution::

This day I sit in the waiting room of St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, NY waiting to receive my step father after his emergency quadruple bypass surgery. The doctor described to us the journey of heart disease and how it begins early in life. In my step dad's case it began some 40 years ago.

I hear often about friends of friends and family finding out they have developed diabetes, or blood pressure is high, and how hard it is to lose weight.

WE MUST begin a new way of thinking. We must care for and maintain our temples, the most sacred possession we have. The one thing we cannot replace.

As parents, we must take responsibility for our children and help facilitate a healthy start for them.

... and, hey- I know I'm preaching to the choir....

Jamie Oliver deserves props for his passionate focus and incredibly difficult journey to change the very stubborn minds of the American public school lunch program.

Have you watched his show Food Revolution? A common discussion in society is our ever horizontally growing population with a specific concentration on our children.

This is an amazing opportunity for us to rally around each other and pressure our school systems to change. For the sake of our babies that we care so deeply for.

Sure I can pack my son's lunch, I make sure he has his whole wheat bread and Honest juice boxes. I am fortunate enough to be able to give him that nutrition. What about those children whose parents cannot afford $5 a pack organic juice?

It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a village to raise a child.