the one about the prostitute

 The song This is Your Life by The Killers is about a stripper named Candy. 
This song is about hope.  If you have been dealt a terrible lot in life, you don't have to resign yourself to that.  There's always hope for something better.  This is a beautiful song, have a listen.


For Valentine's Day Jeremy gave me The Killers Live From Royal Albert Hall cd and dvd. it's amazing!  Yes, he gave me my v-day present the first week in January because he couldn't wait...
Here is This is Your Life LIVE!


Candy talks to strangers
Thinks her life's in danger
No one gives a damn about her hair
It's lonely down on track street
She used to go by Jackie
The cops, they'll steal your dreams and they'll kill your prayers
Take a number where the blood just barely dried

Wait for something better
No one behind you
Watching your shadows
This feeling won't go

Crooked wheels keep tuning
Children, are you learning
Climatize but don't you lose the plot
A history of blisters
Your brothers and your sisters
Somewhere in the pages we forgot

Take a number Jackie
Where the blood just barely dried
You know I'm on your side

Wait for something better
No one behind you
Watching your shadows
You gotta be stronger than the story
Don't let it blind you
Rivers of shadow
This feeling wont go

And the sky is full of dreams
But you don't know how to fly
I don't have a simple answer
But I know that I could answer
Something better

This feeling won't go

Wait for it

about Music Mondays

Each Monday I'd like to share with you a song/songs that I enjoy.

It's a way for me to share what music I'm listening to and, if you have a song or artist you're interested in you can share with me, too!

You can join in with me if you'd like, it's quite fun :)

There are two ways to join me:

1.  Add a Music post to your blog and link up.  Please include the Music Monday button (on the right side of the blog) Link up tools are at the bottom of this post

2. or, just leave a comment here letting me know what music you've been listening to lately, do you have a song stuck in your head?

xo-Danielle

she's a total disaster

I'm sure my kids have been watching entirely too much Arthur on pbs.
Ingrid ran up to me, all sorts of excited and said.
"What if I met Muffy in real life??!!"
she continued
"Muffy, she's a total disaster, but she's RICH!!"
ha, kids are funny.

so, we've been trying to find a new couch for our front room.  we are currently sitting on a couch that was donated to us when an elderly gentleman moved into a retirement home.  The couch is a 3-seater from the 70's and if you try to squish 5 people onto it (which we try a lot!) there's a bar under the cushions between the seats and it's extra super uncomfy!
so, we're trying to find a new couch with these characteristics.

1. comfortable and good looking (aka retro modern)
2. grey leather
3. narrow, like less than 35" deep.
4. in our price range
this is proving to be difficult.
This one in putty is my dream sofa, but it's $4000 :(
I love this one in pewter, but it's too expensive
I love this one in taupe, is our ideal price range, but it's a smidge on the brown side (waiting on the swatch)
I love this one, but I'd like to find one cheaper (got the swatch from West Elm and it's gorgeous!)

This is Sofia with her first bite of sweet pickle.  yeah, that was super disgusting, right, sof??

Hope your weekend is amazing! we are cleaning house, over here, and trying to get rid of our head colds. fun stuff.
xoDanielle

oh, happy day

Happy Groundhogs Day.  

I hope he doesn't see his shadow.  

Today is also my sister-in-laws wedding day.  I've kinda been banned from talking about her wedding, which is too bad. But, I can say we're excited because Sofia gets to be the flower girl.  I'll be sure to take lots of pics...we will be wearing these dresses we got for Christmas because the wedding colors are peaches and creams and golds (I think...)

I hope the little flower girl can handle it, because she tends to get nervous in front of large groups of people.

My contribution to the wedding is the bride's headpiece.  Her wedding dress has pearls across the chest so she wanted pearls in her hair, and again, peach is one of her colors, and she requested the feathers.

 Here's hoping for an eventful, happy day!
xo-Danielle

wiww

Years ago, Jeremy gave me this awesome wool coat for Christmas...i've worn it every winter since then and always get a ton of compliments.  It has all of my favorite colors, turquoise, grass green, grey, and it's all embroidered with a beautiful floral, kinda cherry blossomy print.

This is the outfit I wore to help out in Swede's class.  I was thinking that the dress would be kinda flattering because with the puffed sleeve and the flared skirt it might give the illusion of more of an hourglass figure...then i saw the pics *sigh* yeah, my optimism turned into a sigh.  oh well.

dress: Kohls

jeans: target

shoes: target

Now, for some  really cute stuff! 
Swede and Ingrid were my photographers.

This is what i typically look like on a stay at home type of day, although usually my hair's in a ponytail.  I'm a typical jeans and a t shirt type of girl most days, and I definitely wear my pretty grey slippers around the house all day long.  Just keepin it real!
Ingrid made me this beautiful, and practical necklace.  (it's a red crayon taped onto a super large elastic and i love it tttthhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssss much!) when I told her I was going to put a picture of it on my blog her eyes lit up and she was so excited! So, Ingrid, this is for you, baby girl!

this is my "i got a package from Victoria's Secret today look" ;)

I'm not the only one with an "i got a package from Victoria's Secret look" am i??

shirt: Down East

jeans: Target

slippers: Kohls

necklace: Ingrid

xo-Danielle

Meeting New Friends

I had the opportunity to participate in the 

2012 New Year Blogging Party Gift Exchange and Link UP (that's quite a mouthful, right?:)

It is such a fun way to meet and get to know another blogger and do a fun little gift exchange :)
My partner was Julie over at Love Foster ! It has been so much fun getting to know Julie!  She is a young mama with a precious baby daughter, Abigail.  She is recently married and always has the latest updates on her favorites shows, so if you're a fan of Gossip Girl you MUST go follow Julie's blog rightnow!
I love this picture of her with Abigail, they both look so incredibly happy!  I know that Julie has a heart full of love for this little girl :) aren't they both adorable?!

I sent Julie a couple of headbands, and she sent me a gift from Victoria's Secret.  When I told my husband that his eyes got really wide and he looked a little surprised, haha (i may have stuck my butt out and slapped it, too *snort* tmi??)...but, it was lip gloss, lotion and eyeliner ;)  The lipgloss is the perfect glittery, shimmery pink and the lotion smells so yummy and i'm super excited about the eyeliner because Jeremy has a fetish for smoky eyes (haha, tmi again??)
Thank you, Julie! it's been so much fun!

and...in other news, Keri over at The Baker Family Blog gave me the (much coveted, i'm sure) Liebster Blog Award!  Thanks Keri! :)  And, as part of the rules, (these are OFFICIAL rules, people, not something to be messed with!;) I am linking up and presenting the Liebster Award to my top 5 blogs with under 200 followers...so here goes:

My Liebster Blog Award Picks: 

1) Julie @ Love Foster

2) Joan @ Expecting the Unknown

3) Lacey @ Humming Right Along

4) Moxie Mandie

5) Libby @ Libby's Life 

there are so many amazing blogs out there, it was hard to narrow it down to just 5, plus a lot of my faves have over 200 followers (you don't even want to know what happens if you break the Liebster Award rules, don't even want to chance it!)

Liebster in German means dearest, beloved, or favorite, and it is for bloggers with under 200 followers!

{The Rules}

1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog.

2. Link back to the blogger who awarded you.

3. Copy & paste the blog award on your blog.

4. Reveal your 5 blog picks.

5. Let them know you chose them by leaving a comment on their blog.

So, if you have a minute, go check out some awesome bloggy goodness!

xo-Danielle

Music Monday- my 2nd vlog!

My kids love to sing. Perform? not so much.
I had to be pretty sneaky to get this video.
But, when I heard my 3 year old belting out Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae, I just had to grab my phone and take this video.  She must have had this song stuck in her head, on a loop, check it out:

and here's the original version:

which one do you like better? ;)

about Music Mondays

Each Monday I'd like to share with you a song/songs that I enjoy.

It's a way for me to share what music I'm listening to and, if you have a song or artist you're interested in you can share with me, too!

You can join in with me if you'd like, it's quite fun :)

There are two ways to join me:

1.  Add a Music post to your blog and link up.  Please include the Music Monday button (on the right side of the blog) Link up tools are at the bottom of this post

2. or, just leave a comment here letting me know what music you've been listening to lately, do you have a song stuck in your head?

Oh, and in case you missed it, you can catch my first vlog HERE :)
xo-Danielle