What I Know/Top....

~ to get what you want you may need to alter your approach.  Different goals require
    different characteristics....

~ the best of friends asks how you are, not what's going on, and they wait for you to want
    to share

~ small things, like a card or a letter, are more often than not the biggest game-changers,
    (oh how I would feel like I could fly on a puffy-cloud day if I got a written letter in the
     post......just sayin!)

~ your dream world can make you stop and ask some pretty bizarre questions....

~ take time to roll in the snow and giggle with your kids; it can change their life

~ is there anything better than sharing a cup of tea, from a fancy cup, with a friend who
    knows you better than anyone?  Strawberry rhubarb daiquiri anyone? thanks, 
    friend, xoxo

~ I glanced across the room this week to see my children reading together, (a mother's
    delight) but what I saw in my oldest was something new.....he no longer looked to me 
    like a boy.  I don't want to say he looked like a man, because that is surely not the case,
    but he was more than the baby I held in my arms and I had the fleeting thought that
    he would not be mine for much longer......yikes....sniff sniff

~ spending time with the older women in your life is often the best education the world
    can offer you.  The laughter is richer, the emotion is deeper, and the love flows abundantly
    because you never know if there will be another chance

~ winter is nearly behind us, or that's what I'm telling myself!  The days are longer, the light 
    from the sun is changing, and you can almost smell the promise of warmer days in the air

~ I finished my project!  Whoop!  Yet mixed with the pleasure of the final words is also a
   bizarre sense of loss.  I will miss the 'friends' a spent the past year with, and I will confess
   I don't relish the idea of putting together the package to send it away.....sigh....(that brings
   straight back to my first point!)

   Well Friday has wound its way back to the present...how do the days pass so quickly?
I imagine I will ask this question for a long time to come.
   How are all of you?  Exciting plans?  Big adventure?  Are your casual, cozy, comforting weekend plans taking shape?  
   Here's my challenge, if you can slip in a few minutes of work!  Send me your top.... or a short list of things you know.  I'd love to hear about your favorite things, or have you share with me your infinite wisdom!
   If you have a minute send me mail!! the electronic sort.....   jodiechartung@gmail.com
I'd love to hear from you, maybe this friendship has been one sided for too long.

   Cheers to the weekend, y'all!