Be Happy.
Oh I'm as happy as a big sunflower
I laugh and dance and play
and as I frolic about the town
I laugh the day away.
Oh I'm as happy as a daffodil
I smile at the sun
and when I realize I've wasted a day
I say, twas a happy one.
Oh I'm as happy as a round red rose
I blush from head to toe
and when I get to the end of the day
still happiness I show.
Oh I'm as happy as a daisy white
and though I'm not so smart
I know that if you want "content"
Be happy! it's a start.
Oh I feel fine though some say I
should not feel so carefree
Well I'll stay merry until you show
a reason not to be!
And that's what I think about it!
By Clara.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Monday, July 1, 2013
What I Think
Here's WHAT I THINK about some things.
-That Algebra is wholly unnecessary unless you want to be an engineer (which I DON'T)
- Cantaloupe is also unnecessary
- Portabella (portubella) (Portubela) mushrooms taste like roast beef
- Kenzi is not doing the full College Package
- Echo is not the best pony ever
- Echo issa nut
- Seven kids is not too much to have another
- If I leave my birds are going back to their last owner because my siblings would kill them
- Lake water is more fun to swim in than pool water
- Dogs have too many fleas
- It is not Marcus's fault he has founder
- Pancakes taste better if you use several different kinds of flour
- Cooking is not hard if you know about it
- Barnes and Noble is the best store
- If the best store is not Half Price Books
- Sleeping late is not worth it
- Writing is fun if you can write what you want
- Flowers are good
- I cannot garden
- Baseball is fun
- Climbing trees is good
- Ticks ARE NOT
- Mounted Games is the best sport
- It is too much trouble to have an E-mail address
- My four year old brother is too young to drive a tractor
- I don't want to watch the Man In The Moon
- I can't write everything here
- The best way to take medicine is to take it in one gulp
- Viva La Vida is a great song
- I have to stop
- This post is too long.
Au Revoir,
Miss Me Myself
-That Algebra is wholly unnecessary unless you want to be an engineer (which I DON'T)
- Cantaloupe is also unnecessary
- Portabella (portubella) (Portubela) mushrooms taste like roast beef
- Kenzi is not doing the full College Package
- Echo is not the best pony ever
- Echo issa nut
- Seven kids is not too much to have another
- If I leave my birds are going back to their last owner because my siblings would kill them
- Lake water is more fun to swim in than pool water
- Dogs have too many fleas
- It is not Marcus's fault he has founder
- Pancakes taste better if you use several different kinds of flour
- Cooking is not hard if you know about it
- Barnes and Noble is the best store
- If the best store is not Half Price Books
- Sleeping late is not worth it
- Writing is fun if you can write what you want
- Flowers are good
- I cannot garden
- Baseball is fun
- Climbing trees is good
- Ticks ARE NOT
- Mounted Games is the best sport
- It is too much trouble to have an E-mail address
- My four year old brother is too young to drive a tractor
- I don't want to watch the Man In The Moon
- I can't write everything here
- The best way to take medicine is to take it in one gulp
- Viva La Vida is a great song
- I have to stop
- This post is too long.
Au Revoir,
Miss Me Myself
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
What if?
What if I sang like Brooklyn Shuck?
What if I'd taken dance in elementary school?
Would my life be different?
What if I'd never stepped into the barn at Windhover?
What if I'd never jumped a horse?
What if Miss Sara wasn't my (amazing) teacher?
What if I were still scared?
What would I look like?
What if I'd never had Ms. Avera in fourth grade?
What if I never wrote a poem?
What if I were still a freshman?
How different would I be?
What if I were never in youth choir?
What if I didn't meet Calla at AWANA?
What if Clara were someone else's sister?
Who would I talk to now?
What if I'd refused to go to that first audition?
What if I never went to that play?
What if I never met Graham Pilotte?
Where would I be?
What if I memorized verses with as much zest as I memorize Shakespeare?
What if I really got up early to read my Bible for more than twenty minutes?
What if I wondered what Jesus would do every second of my life?
Would my life be different?
I can't answer every question, but I know that I am about to find out about those.
Much love,
Heidi
What if I'd taken dance in elementary school?
Would my life be different?
What if I'd never stepped into the barn at Windhover?
What if I'd never jumped a horse?
What if Miss Sara wasn't my (amazing) teacher?
What if I were still scared?
What would I look like?
What if I'd never had Ms. Avera in fourth grade?
What if I never wrote a poem?
What if I were still a freshman?
How different would I be?
What if I were never in youth choir?
What if I didn't meet Calla at AWANA?
What if Clara were someone else's sister?
Who would I talk to now?
What if I'd refused to go to that first audition?
What if I never went to that play?
What if I never met Graham Pilotte?
Where would I be?
What if I memorized verses with as much zest as I memorize Shakespeare?
What if I really got up early to read my Bible for more than twenty minutes?
What if I wondered what Jesus would do every second of my life?
Would my life be different?
I can't answer every question, but I know that I am about to find out about those.
Much love,
Heidi
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Stretching my mind and my heart
I sit down at the piano.
My fingers begin to wander over the keys, pressing, releasing,
testing the waters,
apprehensive, but eager.
My mind fritters over the pages, wondering, scared.
Can I even begin?
I take a deep breath, and begin to play.
I am captured.
The music has overwhelmed me, drowned me, carried me away,
and I am prisoner,
though I would have it no other way.
As the music continues my mind wanders,
but never strays,
held by the music
lost in its spell.
My mind stretches and smiles
my heart laughs along with the melody,
enthralled by the magic.
And it's like dancing
and singing
and love
and war
all
rolled into
one.
My fingers begin to wander over the keys, pressing, releasing,
testing the waters,
apprehensive, but eager.
My mind fritters over the pages, wondering, scared.
Can I even begin?
I take a deep breath, and begin to play.
I am captured.
The music has overwhelmed me, drowned me, carried me away,
and I am prisoner,
though I would have it no other way.
As the music continues my mind wanders,
but never strays,
held by the music
lost in its spell.
My mind stretches and smiles
my heart laughs along with the melody,
enthralled by the magic.
And it's like dancing
and singing
and love
and war
all
rolled into
one.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Kentucky, I love/hate you.
I really do love this place. I've always thought it has the perfect blend of rural towns where men in battered ball caps stop into the corner store to buy a TruMoo, a lugnut, and a razor blade,
manicured and perfectly painted pasture fences around gorgeous polished Thoroughbreds,
and thrilling urban areas filled with culture, art, theatre, and good places to take pictures.
But...I have to say your weather leaves something to be desired. It's so hot that during the day all I want to do is read Nicholas Nickleby somewhere cold. So then at seven something when it cools down all of a sudden i go running. I come home hot and wanting a shower, but by the time I have gotten a drink I've cooled off and think I'm OK for another hour. But then I decide to practice gymnastics for a while. Then I'm hot again. Then I cool off again. Then finally at nine forty or something I get around to dancing, and find myself so sweaty that I take a shower at ten fifteen at night and wake up with crazy hair since I went to bed with it wet.
I must say, those sixty degree days last week were quite satisfactory.
So...yes, you're amazing, KY, but it's hard to get used to literally dripping all day, all summer. And we haven't even discussed wearing riding pants all day.
manicured and perfectly painted pasture fences around gorgeous polished Thoroughbreds,
and thrilling urban areas filled with culture, art, theatre, and good places to take pictures.
But...I have to say your weather leaves something to be desired. It's so hot that during the day all I want to do is read Nicholas Nickleby somewhere cold. So then at seven something when it cools down all of a sudden i go running. I come home hot and wanting a shower, but by the time I have gotten a drink I've cooled off and think I'm OK for another hour. But then I decide to practice gymnastics for a while. Then I'm hot again. Then I cool off again. Then finally at nine forty or something I get around to dancing, and find myself so sweaty that I take a shower at ten fifteen at night and wake up with crazy hair since I went to bed with it wet.
I must say, those sixty degree days last week were quite satisfactory.
So...yes, you're amazing, KY, but it's hard to get used to literally dripping all day, all summer. And we haven't even discussed wearing riding pants all day.
My SUCCESSFUL Garden
Hiya, Folks!
My garden actually grew! I have lettuce that looks delectable, and carrots, which I am afraid to mention I cannot see. I have not pulled them up yet, but I will soon. And you believed brilliant me to be incapable of growing anything. :^)
Look, I have found some pictures of pure beauty. Here they are.
That is beautiful, you must admit.
These are two different pictures, she was just doing so beautifully that you can hardly tell them apart.
Another beautiful picture.
My sister has got a dress rehearsal for a ballet recital today.
The below is last year's recital costume, complete with a crown which she isn't wearing in the picture.
Good- bye
-Miss Me Myself.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
It's been a good day.
Figured out how to make friendship bracelets, had a good ride on Ech and a great ride on Yank.
Finally cleaned the Hermés saddle. Awesome Bible study with Pastor Chris.
Actually did math. Had some chocolate strawberries and a bagel with peanut butter.
Found three or four ADORABLE hairstyles to try on Cici and Kenzi.
Milestone: choreographed an entire song today! (loosely based on a video...i.e. I choreographed it but tried to get the same feel. I'm not Broadway so I can't do those dances anyway...)
And for once, actually talked my sibs into doing it ;) They're awesome.
I did maybe eat a whole handful of chocolate chips...but it's summer. Sometimes I think that's my excuse for everything.
I have the biggest horse show I've ever been to on Sunday. Wish me luck. Apparently it's recognized and everything, and is a dress show, and USHJA, and the whole caboodle. Downside: I'm supposed to be at Lakeside by 6:00am. 6:00 AM!!! So I'll have to go to church on Saturday.
So...really random but...thank you God.
Finally cleaned the Hermés saddle. Awesome Bible study with Pastor Chris.
Actually did math. Had some chocolate strawberries and a bagel with peanut butter.
Found three or four ADORABLE hairstyles to try on Cici and Kenzi.
Milestone: choreographed an entire song today! (loosely based on a video...i.e. I choreographed it but tried to get the same feel. I'm not Broadway so I can't do those dances anyway...)
And for once, actually talked my sibs into doing it ;) They're awesome.
I did maybe eat a whole handful of chocolate chips...but it's summer. Sometimes I think that's my excuse for everything.
I have the biggest horse show I've ever been to on Sunday. Wish me luck. Apparently it's recognized and everything, and is a dress show, and USHJA, and the whole caboodle. Downside: I'm supposed to be at Lakeside by 6:00am. 6:00 AM!!! So I'll have to go to church on Saturday.
So...really random but...thank you God.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)