there is something about this video that breaks my heart. this is the first music video i have seen that they actually sung it live for the video instead of lip syncing to their single. it makes it so much more heartbreaking and real.

i cant get enough.

a portrait

someday i want a portrait of myself painted in this style.

this could be the cutest little girl i have ever seen.

seriously.

dress up

someday my children will dress up in princess costumes or superman costumes on a day to day basis. i will allow them to wear such outfits to the store, or church, or even school if they wish it.

bath time

someday i will have a child who adores baths as much as i always have. when they are little i will put them in the tub with a bucket of army men and they will get lost in a battle. as they get older i will find library books sitting next to a bath discarded and perhaps a bit water logged.
my husband will get annoyed when the bill comes for all the hot water, and perhaps the siblings will be annoyed by the fact that several hours will have elapsed while that one child is in reading a book, or perhaps even taking a quick snooze.
but i will be okay with this all.
i will allow him or her to refill the bathtub with hot water thirty minutes later when the water had all turned cold. i will not scoff at them when they ask to take a bath at all hours of the night. i will teach them the wonders of baths in the middle of the night if they are chilled. i will convince my husband to purchase the big tub with the slanted back and perhaps even the jets. i will always have bubble bath on hand and if not dawn soap. i will keep my towels fluffy and big. when they are younger i will spray shaving cream on the walls for the kids to play with, and when they are older i will allow candles to be placed around the edge of the tub. i will not set limits on baths at all....

...because baths are gods gift to earth. i pray i have at least one child who adores them as i do. oh how i hope.

neville

someday i will have a strange looking kitten whom i will name neville and we will sleep in late on our day off and spend half our day basking in the sun.

the life we will lead will be charmed and full of happiness.

summer nights

someday i will have a bedroom outside for those hot summer nights you need a cool breeze to get you through the night.

i really want to own a pink wig. something to put on when im feeling like bring forth my inner "samantha."

someday i will have more money then i have now.

...i wish it were someday today.

my dream house continued...

i want to live in this exact house. its from the movie evening and it captured my heart. i never thought of myself as someone who could live in newport, rhode island but if this house is there...then so shall i be.

perhaps i could even have my very own hugh dancy in a bathrobe and hat. perhaps?


this is the inside of said house. i mean, check out the walls? the wallpaper is amazing. it is truly my dream house.

is there anything more beautiful then freckles?

cherry blossoms adrift

Pink petals passing
Scents above so high
Painted porcelain perfection
Blossoms caress the sky

Swaying silent shroud
Suitors strolling by
Pink petals passing
Lover's gentle sigh

Pastel hues falling
Slow fluttering grace
Pink petals passing
Lining streams in lace

Pink petals passing
Smoothest transit by
Soft essence floating
In most subtle lullaby

Inducing springtime slumber
Upon a satin shore
Sailing with the current
Pink petals pass before

Mary Fumento

spring is slowly coming...

what i want in life...

as i continue to figure out who i am and who i want to be...i have begun to discover things i hold dearly and want to have in my life...


i want to go on adventures with my children. i want to turn the bathtub into a time machine. the couch into a submarine. the car into an airplane. and the tree house into a home. i want to travel to mars with them. i want to see what worlds their minds create and watch as everything becomes a possibility.

i want to collect vintage tea cups or towels or salt and pepper shakers i want to have some collection that inspires me each and every time i look at it. i want others to tell me they were out shopping and saw this and thought of me.


i want a son covered in freckles with those eyes that tell the stories of mischief.

i want a library in my house. i want to walk into a room and have the smell of leather and musty pages greet me. i want a chair tucked in the corner of the room, out of site where i can curl up and get lost in my favorite stories.

i want to garden parties. i want chinese lanterns hanging all around. while cool jazz songs float through the yard as people mingle.

i want to live for a brief time on a plantation. i want to be there during harvest and get swept up in the madness. i want to see the product of my labor. i want to have a passion for the land.


oh how i want to go camping, for like a year. and spruce up our trailer and be those campers that greet the new campers to the park and invite them over for dinner one night.

i want freckles so badly i painted my face in them. now i feel like dennis the menace.

oh mr. wilson!!

since i was a little girl my ideal dream house has always been a white farmhouse with either blue or black shutters. it would have a big front porch with a swing on it and two wicker chairs for company and a screen door on the front door that creaks everytime you open it. i used to tell my mom that she would live with me someday in this dream house and we would play board games and do crafts. and spend all day working on my yards tending to the flowers and watch my children run around outside while we worked in the vegetable garden.

i realize now that i am older that this dream...hasnt changed much at all. i still want all those things...(except maybe my mother living with us...not that i wouldnt love her to live with me, but at the ripe old age of 24 i seem to still find myself at home with the parents and i believe i would like a house of my own...)



my grandma had a craft room in her house when i was little. it was my favorite room in her whole house. you could always find ribbons. buttons. birds eggs. glue sticks. lace. milk cartons. everything. i vowed to one day have a craft room of my very own. although i would settle for a crafting nook...

i want to go on an adventure. something wonderful. something that i get caught up in and dont realize i am smiling so big and wont stop smiling. i want to think about that adventure and smile a secret smile.

where do you find adventures?

“She told me once that the year she went to England she painted all her buttons yellow so she would remember what the sun felt like.” - Brian Andreas