paperweight.

mess up my bed with me
kick off the covers i'm waiting
every word you say i think
i should write down
don't want to forget come daylight
and no need to worry
that's wastin time
and no need to wonder
what's been on my mind
it's you
it's you
it's you
every word you say i think
i should write down
don't want to forget come daylight
and i give up
i let you win
you win cause i'm not counting
you made it back
to sleep again
wonder what you're dreaming.

mommys lil' princess.

I could not have asked for a better daughter.
She keeps me going when I really don't want to.
She keeps me laughing when I feel like I want to just cry.
She gives me the reason and drive to work hard and succeed at school.
She is well-behaved and patient - she isn't even two yet!
She is smart and so well-rounded - mommy thinks you're a genius.
She loves to dance especially with her mama.
She gives lots of hugs and kisses when mommy needs them the most.
Her smiles are contagious and anything she does warms my heart.
It is overwhelming to see her growing up so quickly but I'm excited and overjoyed to be able to witness the transformation from her as a little newborn to a toddler, to eventually - a beautiful young woman.
I am so proud of my little girl. Mommy loves you tooter :)

mistakes.

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

hopeless romantic.

Sacrifice. A word that anyone in a relationship can recognize, understand, and relate to. Without sacrifice, a relationship cannot withstand the trials of life. With any sacrifice comes growth; with growth comes a deeper love. Selflessness goes hand in hand with sacrifice. Giving more of yourself than you have to the one you love comes with the greatest satisfaction one will ever know. Trusting that person with all that you are, completely stripping yourself down and becoming fully exposed; giving your time, body, feelings, thoughts - giving them your heart. Beyond the trust in giving it all away, trusting in them to take it all and treat it with the utmost care. Knowing that at any moment, there is a possibility that what you gave away could be taken away and never returned to you the same again. After the transaction is complete, it will all be forever different, you will be changed. How any one of us makes it out of this alive is beyond me. Just thinking of the process one goes through to trust another is enough to make any person run scared. Myself, it's the unknown and risk involved that leaves me wanting more. Call me crazy, but without experiencing any hurt in life - you'll never know how to appreciate all of the good around you. You'll never understand, when it happens, that you have found that one person that is worth taking the leap with. And if takes going through many suiters to find that one beautiful, shiny gem - what else would a hopeless romantic girl do?

-eb

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