I Would Love

I would love to spend the next week straight doing nothing but catching up on things I WANT to be doing - like catching up on my photo-a-day pages, and catching up on posting pictures to my blog, and catching up on scrapping the thousands of pictures that are quickly becoming photo archives rather than recent pictures. *sigh* I would love to be able to do this.

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I would love to have ALL of the boxes out of our house - and out of our garage. This weekend Lucas and I worked together and got just about everything out of the house. Now there is a gigantic stack of flattened boxes in our garage, as well as several wardrobe boxes crammed full of packing paper. I would love to have the space instead of the stack of cardboard.

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I would love to have everything hung up. No more stacks of frames and wall art and shelves and mirrors. I would love to not have pictures and frames leaning against my walls and serving more as tripping hazards than decorations. I would love to have beautiful color on my walls instead of the stark white that comes standard in new houses.

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I would love to see my kids each make a special friend that they can hang out with over the summer and really get to know. I would love to see them happy and playing and laughing with other kids again. I would love to know that they don't feel lonely and sad and desparate to go back to where we came from.

And while we're on the topic of friends, I would love to be able to do a big giant get-together with all of their friends that they are so desparately missing. I would love to be able to surprise them like that. I wish...

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I would love to know what to get my husband for his birthday. He doesn't WANT anything. He never wants anything. He's difficult. But his birthday is this weekend, and I love him too much to just say, 'Well, sorry I just didn't know what to get you.'

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I would love to visit with my dad and step-mom. It has been WAAAAY too long since I've seen them. They've only ever met Meagan once. She was about 5 months old I think. It's been a while. I would love to remedy that.

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Well, there's my wish list - the things that are on my heart and mind this morning as I get ready to go about my day. Hopefully it will be a productive day. It's rainy and gloomy again today, so all of my plans will be revolving around being inside. I'm thinking I will try to finish a few projects that are time-sensitive, and then maybe work on bills and receipts. Yippee. I will see about getting back with some photos from our weekend trip to the children's museum. It was a great day. We now have a membership, and I'm sure we will be going back again soon. At any rate... pictures... I'll see what I can do. In the meantime, have a lovely Monday.

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