Love
I consider myself a novice to marriage when compared to my parents and in-laws (48 and 50 years respectively), Frank and I are newbie’s going on 10-years, but as I as reminisce back to our wedding, and remember that this is prime wedding season, almost every day is somebody’s anniversary, so to all my lovebirds, and those still looking for love, this is for you!

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
~ Leo F. Buscaglia
A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.
~ Author Unknown
Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
~ From the movie Moulin Rouge
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And here is my heart which beats only for you.
~ Paul Verlaine
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet…
~ Plato
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu
Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength an beauty that brings music to our souls.
~ Author Unknown
But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
~ Robert Burns
Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
~ Author Unknown
Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
~ Oscar Hammerstein
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong
Don’t frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
~ Anonymous
Don’t hug me, it only makes me want to never let go.
~ Allison Mosher
Falling in love with someone isn’t always going to be easy… Anger… tears… laughter.. It’s when you want to be together despite it all. That’s when you truly love another. I’m sure of it.
~ Author Unknown
For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.
~ Leland Thomas
Goodnight! Goodnight!
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say goodnight til it be morrow.
~ William Shakespeare
I am so glad that you are here… It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
~ Goethe
I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can’t even cut out enough red hearts to keep up.
~ Sarah Mimnaugh
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
~ Julia Roberts
I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.
~ Alice Walker
I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn’t be the same. Please don’t ever go away. And if you go, then don’t forget to take me with you.
~ Basia
I love her and
that’s the beginning of everything.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
~ Author Unknown
I think we dream so we don’t have to be away from one another. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we’ll always be together.
~ Hobbes
I’m not supposed to love you, I’m not supposed to care, I’m not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I’m not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do…I’m sorry I can’t help myself, I’m in love with you.
~ Author Unknown
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
~ Emily Dickinson
If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.
~ Author Unknown
If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.
~ Author Unknown
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
~ Anonymous
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
~ Maya Angelou
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~ Mother Teresa
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
~ Janos Arany
In love, there is always one who kisses & one who offers the cheek.
~ French proverb
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
~ Hans Nouwens
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Maya Angelou
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
~ Oscar Wilde
Let love be the sweet elixir that awakens your spirit and moves your soul to dance.
~ Author Unknown
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
~Kahlil Gibran
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
~ William Shakespeare
Love demands all and has a right to it.
~ Beethoven
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones
Love doesn’t sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time,…made new.
~ Le Guin
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get~only with what you are expecting to give~which is everything.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Love is a fan club with only two fans.
~ Anonymous
Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way.
~ Lamar Cole
Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
~ Author Unknown
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Love is a never ending feeling.
~ Adeil Prince
Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.
~ J. Ghetto
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
~ Eurpides
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
~ Helen Keller
Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.
~ Kamila
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part in the process.
~ Henry Beyle Stendahl
Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent its coming back.
~ Nigerian Proverb
Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.
~ Author Unknown
Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.
~ Kay Knudsen
Love is not blind, it sees more not less;
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
~ Will Moss
Love is not something you look for,
Love is something you become.
~ Langley
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
~ Jennifer Williams
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
~ Robert A Heinlein
Love is the blueprint for happiness.
~ Lamar Cole
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
~ Erich Fromm
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Love wasn’t put in your heart to stay. Love isn’t love until you give it away.
~ Michael W.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.
~ Barbara Johnson
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
~ Author Unknown
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
See there’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.
~ Gretchen Kemp
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
~ Saint Augustine
So, fall asleep love, loved by me….for I know love, I am loved by thee.
~ Robert Browning
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~ Thomas Merton
The first duty of love is to listen.
~ Paul Tillich
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
~ J. Krishnamurti
The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller
The word love can be explained in thousands of ways, but the only word that comes to my mind is you.
~ Author Unknown
The world is filled with reasons why I love you.
~ Author Unknown
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
~ Author Unknown
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
~ Samuel Butler
True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they’ve gotta match.
~ Author Unknown
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
~ Tom Robbins
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
~ Helen Keller
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It’s we who make it complicated.
~ Leo Buscaglia
When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.
~ Author Unknown
You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
~ Keith Sweat
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.
~ Author Unknown
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
~ Barbara De Angelis
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Divas For A Cure

Surfing one night for motorcycles, (because I am getting the urge to ride again) I discovered and fell head over heels for Real Divas Ride, an online forum for the riding diva. I learned to ride back in high school and thankfully I am married to one of the most adventurous husband imaginable who is trying is hardest to convince me to go skydiving, (sorry) and he has promised we will get bikes, thus the research.
This great group of divas are giving back to a worthy cause in the form of a Ride For A Cure through the United States and Canada for a total of 5,010 miles!
For details and the route list visit Ride For A Cure, and lend a hand to a worthy cause.
As you may or may not know, my father-in-law is a cancer survivor and I am growing my sons hair to donate to children stricken by cancer and my kids are running a lemonade stand to raise funds for Children’s Cancer Research, so this is an issue near and dear to my heart. So whenever I hear of such a cause I will lend a helping hand.
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And our winner is…
Deborah, of Webajeb Digital Photo Albums & Portfolios for our first ever contest here on Scramories!
Congratulations to Deborah and be on the lookout for an e-mail.
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Scrapbooking page toppers
A few summer themed scrapbook titles toppers to heat up those layouts;

Hot Fun in the Summertime
Hot time, Summer in the city
I’m Walking on Sunshine…
Keepin’ Cool by the Pool
Let the Sun Shine In
Lickin’ the Heat
Like a Heatwave
Oh, Those Summer Nights
A Place in the Sun
Poolside Princess
Seasons in the Sun
Sleepy, Sunny Summer
We All Scream for Ice Cream
Bathing Beauties
Beat the Heat
Dog Days of Summer
Endless Summer
Firefly Summer
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Blue, Pink, Green and sometimes Yellow.
With all of my pregnancies, we never did find out the sex of the baby we were having till it was delivered, this mostly was my husband’s idea and I went along with it in the beginning but it got harder the closer my delivery day came.

So to at least have a semblance of preparing for these wonderful bundles of joy, our color schemes were limited to green and yellow, and then to the appropriate colors of pink and blue upon arrival.

That has now carried over to their childhood, so much to the point that whatever we get them has to be in those special colors, blue, pink, and green. Something as simple as buying ice-cream is now a science of choosing blue ice cream or at least pink sprinkles on top.

So to a very special daughter and two special son’s here are your colors.
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Thank you
The fires in California got me thinking about those brave men and women and the risks the unimaginable risks they go through to protect life and property; I know because for a year I volunteered with my local fire department, and thinking of volunteering again.
To these brave heroes, thank you.

Firefighters save hearts and homes.
~Author Unknown
Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.
~Susan Diane Murphree
Firefighters are hot stuff!
~Author Unknown
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~Ambrose Redmoon
Firefighting - one of the few professions left that still makes house calls.
~Author Unknown
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
~Albert Schweitzer
You might be a firefighter if your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you. ~Author Unknown
You might be a firefighter if you’ve ever smoked and there wasn’t a cigarette in sight. ~Author Unknown
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
~Larry Brown
Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero’s heart.
~Proverb
Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick
Whatever the American’s are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an “institution.” Thus the memory of George Washington… is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution…; “Sweet potatoes” are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; …squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850
The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen.
~Gregory Widen, Backdraft
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.
~Seth Parker
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
~William Shakespeare
When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. ~Edward F. Croker
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
~Tom Brokaw
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
~Author Unknown
Firefighters - your worst nightmare is just another day at the office.
~Author Unknown
I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~Tracy Chapman
Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
~James Allen
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
~William Feather
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.
~Kurt Vonnegut
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?
~John Godfrey Saxe
But sound aloud the praises, and give the victor-crown
To our noble-hearted Firemen, who fear not danger’s frown.
~Frederic G.W. Fenn, “Ode to our Firemen,” 1878
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
~Maya Angelou
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
~Bible, John 15:13
Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over.
~Author Unknown
When fire is cried and danger is neigh,
“God and the firemen” is the people’s cry;
But when ’tis out and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.
~Author unknown, from The Fireman’s Journal, 18 Oct 1879
All men are created equal, then a few become firemen.
~Author Unknown
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
~George Canning
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Blog TalkRadio interview
My husband Frank, will be featured tomorrow July 9, 2008 at 3pm PST/5pm CST/4pm EST on BlogTalkRadio to discuss “Attracting Ideal Clients Show”
For a show reminder click here
Listen online (live or archived) or call (646) 478-4558 and ask a question during the show.
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Happy Independence Day!
Beautiful day for a contest
Note: This is a sticky post, please scroll down for recent posts, thank you.
The weather is much more bearable today and I am looking forward to finals this week with a week off till the start of the next term. So if I seem a bit lagging in posting to my blogs, dropping or voting, studies, family and sleep are keeping my attention.
But while I am busy tolling away at those books, if you are a new or expectant parent, I have a contest for you.
I review family items and this time around, I received the 5-Star Baby Name Advisor by Bruce Lansky and My First Taggies Puzzle.
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The baby name advisor is obvious, a compilation of names sorted by stars (Ada ranks 4-stars!), as well as give the origin and definition of the name.
My First Taggies is great toy for ages 9-months to about 3-years. Henry is going on 4-years, and it only held his attention approximately 10-minutes, and feel this toy will be better served for an infant developing their motor skills.
The set has 4 tethered puzzle pieces in different shapes, colors and textures, and are securely attached to the main part of the toy, preventing the pieces from getting lost.
Entry Rules
Entering is simple! All I ask is that you tell me by commenting on this post which product you’d most like to own. That’s it! Be sure to include contact information, should your name be drawn.
This exciting giveaway will run through Sunday, July 20th at 12:00 noon EST. MC Henry will randomly draw a name and announce the winner on this blog the following day. Should you be our winner, you’ll then have 5 days to email me your shipping address.
Eligibility restrictions:
You must be a resident of the USA. Sorry folks!
As much as I would love to to open this internationally, shipping is too expensive.
Only one entry per individual please.
Good luck and thanks for entering!
Stay safe and have a wonderful day!
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