"Eggs are like hearts; they are very fragile and can be broken easily.” Jerry Spinelli"

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fosterhood:

“NEVER leave babies in an infant carrier while it goes through the X-ray machine.”

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.
Anne Lamott"

"The main thing that ever helped mothers was other people mothering them; a chain of mothering that keeps the whole shebang afloat.” -Anne Lamott"

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legos:

manintokyo:

Mini San Fran

Nice. Should be there by the end of the summer.

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“Every day, God gives us, as well as the sun, a moment when it is possible to change anything that is causing us unhappiness. The magic moment is the moment when a “yes” or a “no” can change our whole existence. Every day, we try to pretend that we do not see the moment, that it does not exist, that today is the same as yesterday and that tomorrow will be the same too.

However, anyone who pays close attention to his day will discover the magic moment. It might be hidden in the instant that we put the key in the door in the morning, in the moment of silence after supper, in the thousand and one things that appear to us to be the same.

This moment exists, a moment in which all the strength of the stars flows through us and allows us to perform miracles.” Paulo Coelho

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onlycupcakes:

Pink champagne cupcakes via Mrs. D Loves to Eat

Here is the recipe:

2 cups plus 2 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp. nonfat milk powder
1 Tbsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
5 large egg whites
1 tsp. vanilla extract
pink food coloring
1 cup dry Brut champagne or sparkling wine Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line muffin pans with cupcake liners. In large bowl, whisk together the flour, milk powder, baking powder, and salt. In bowl of stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine butter, oil and granulated sugar. Beat until light and fluffy in texture and in color, about 3 minutes. Add egg whites, one at a time, scraping sides of bowl after each addition. Add vanilla extract and pink food coloring (a little goes a long way with this batter, so be careful) and beat to combine well. Scrape down sides of bowl to make sure all ingredients are incorporated, and slowly add flour mixture, then champagne. Stir slowly until mixture is almost combined. Remove from mixer and stir ingredients with large spatula until just barely combined. Pour mixture into prepared liners, and tap lightly to remove excess air bubbles.

Place into center of oven and bake for 19-21 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into center of cupcakes comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool in pans for 5 minutes. Move to wire racks and let cool completely before decorating. Frost as desired.

onlycupcakes:

adorable little tree cakes via Les Muffins

"..but the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

Anna Quindlen (by way of Ali Edwards)

"When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college and that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?"

~Howard Ikemoto