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watching Stardust, just found it super cheap at Target. Score! I love this movie.

Yay!

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My husband, ladies and gentlemen…

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…likes to color.

I tagged along with Jeremy to this year’s ACSI (Association of Christian Schools International) conference in Anaheim. He’s the only dude at his entire school, so they give him his own hotel room. So we’re at this nice hotel, and I’m really looking forward to sleeping in, BUT! What’s this? Evidently the room right next door is being completely rebuilt from scratch. Power saw, hammering, and drilling. So much for sleeping, or doing much else for that matter. They’ve been at it all day, and if I’d paid for this room, I’d be quite frustrated. 

As it is, how can I be frustrated when I get to go see TWILIGHT tonight? Yay …

The Velveteen Rabbit: Becoming Real

“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room.  “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse.  “It’s a thing that happens to you.  When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”

“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.  “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse.  “You become.  It takes a long time.  That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.  Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.  But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

I just love it. Anybody else out there have a favorite book quote?