bless the heart...

Bless the heart

that gives.

The heart that loves.

The heart

that’s open to others.

Bless the heart

that makes time.

The heart that

mends hurts.

The generous heart

of a mother.

(from a 2014 Hallmark card)

Happy Mother's Day from ELC, TLC and Little Leighton...

Incredible Women

We love love LOVE this quote:

What can I tell you about this woman, this incredible woman? It’s that here’s a woman who I still look to when I want to know how to go forward with courage and strength. That is so fascinating to me—that as an adult, you can still turn to somebody—I don’t know if it’s because she’s been on the planet longer or is just wiser—but you can still turn to an adult who is your mother who’s still teaching you how to live.

                                                                      --Kalinka

                                      American fashion designer

ELC says it’s BOTH: Moms have been on the planet longer and, yep, a significant number of them are wise. (Of course, it should go without saying that she's one of the wise ones. Teeheehee.)

(It’s almost Friday—and only three days until Mother’s Day! We are happy Happy HAPPY, Sweet Friends…hope Y'all are, too.)

the dream...

TLC has a fashion merchandising degree—although she spent eight years working as a banker. I always worked (I won’t bore you, today, with all of the jobs I’ve had/work I’ve done)—from the time I could babysit, at age eleven, until I became a mother to TLC at 30. I chose to be a stay-at-home Mom until I went back to school to get a Masters’ degree in Counseling (TLC was sixteen when I received my degree, at which time I went back to work full-time.) TLC is a stay-at-home Mom currently—and hopes she’s able to continue to do this (HARD) job for several more years.

In honor of TLC’s love of fashion, our “Mothers' Month” Quote is from Betsey Johnson, a designer TLC and I have both admired:

Lulu is kind of the dream of wanting to hang out with your daughter the rest of your life. It’s the closeness with your kid that no one else, nothing else could come close to.

I feel exactly this way about TLC. And I’m certain she’ll always treasure her closeness with Little Leighton, as the years fly by…

Hope Y’all are having a Marvelous Monday!

ta-ta for now…

Mother, may I?

Yes. You may.

And…it’s May of 2014. Seriously? How???

TLC and I have decided we’re going to spend this entire month celebrating MOTHERS. WooHooandYippee!

We’ll be posting quotes from famous peeps about their Moms—or being a Mom. We’ll also probably have to be obnoxious and share some thoughts/stories of our own. Maybe force you to look at a few more annoying pictures. Y’all know us by now, right? We’re pretty shameless.

Our first quote (Drumroll,please…):

I feel as much as any mother does that you wish you could fight their battles for them and spare them pain. But I very much like the fact that [my daughters] are all independent—which, accompanied with stubbornness, can be a pain to deal with when they’re younger. But it’s a virtue when they’re older.

                                                                           --Enid Johns,  American Social Psychologist

(Remember this, TLC, as Sassy/Fiesty Little Leighton challenges you, okay?)

Happy FABULOUS Friday, Sillies...