isn’t she lovely?

Isn’t she lovely

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn’t she wonderful

Isn’t she precious

Less than one minute old

I never thought through love we’d be

Making one as lovely as she

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But isn’t she lovely made from love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn’t she pretty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Truly the angel’s best

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boy, I’m so happy

We have been heaven blessed

I can’t believe what God has done

Through us he’s given life to one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But isn’t she lovely made from love

and in all this, Jasper learned that Stevie Wonder wrote that song (from which you’ve just read the lyrics) for his daughter Aisha at her birth…sorry Lauren!

Lauren is still adorable!

and it’s true: “But isn’t she lovely made from love”

no, Lauren is not Stevie Wonders’ love child…

but who could argue with being mistaken for being Stevie Wonders’ love child?

oh dear oh dear oh dear Jasper!

thank you, Lauren, for a very fun time at the Eno River!

you’re beautiful…

and I kinda wish you were my love child…

love, Jasper Naomi

January 18, 2012 | Categories: inspirational escripts | Leave A Comment »

dancin’ and prancin’

It was so hard to watch them bury Grandpa. Why?

This is NOT meant to depress me, further, or meant to depress anyone, for that matter. I just miss good ties with ‘ole Grandpa Foster. So it’s time to wake up to some truths! Grandpa and dancing in heaven – I never saw Grandpa skip around and dance, really!

and check out the little Operation Beautiful note that I posted in the bathroom…Grandpa would have thought it was funny!

also…I made some grain purchases at Whole Foods this morning and am SO EXCITED about that for some reason I was like a giddy little school girl buying candy like Angela mentioned sort-of today, in her post!

 

have a lovely happy Friday…can’t wait to see you all tomorrow!~

January 13, 2012 | Categories: inspirational escripts | Leave A Comment »

yum yum

so Katie over at Katiedid made something really cool…and I prepared, more or LESS, the same thing for my aunt on Sunday…and then I tried to photograph it. Needless to say, we all know that LESSER are my photos in light of Katie’s … ah well, I’ll keep studying over at Emily’s, Katiedid and Ashley’s place, Angela’s too … as well as every other awesome food blogger in cybertown

YAH. DEFINITELY NOT cut out for the food photography! a girl can dreammmmmmmmmm … insert carton dream bubble here here and here

much love to you all! have a happy Tuesday!

January 10, 2012 | Categories: inspirational escripts | 4 Comments »

family ii

this week has been rough for our family. my grandfather and grandmother who live in Africa have not been doing well in their health…constant updates from my family pain me because I am powerless over being able to help my grandpa and grandma “feel” better. being SO FAR away makes my inability to offer any comfort even worse.

small goal for today (in keeping up with yesterday’s post): a. memorize manageable (for me, jasper ) scripture for this week: Psalm 33:22 and Micah 6:8…b. find something at WORK for which to be grateful (and there’s LOTS of things from which to choose!) 1. band aids and antibiotic ointment from the first aid kit FREE and available to me at the workplace, thank you Duke! 2. pink nail polish that makes me smile when I glance at my fingers dancing over the keyboard (provided, courtesy of Duke! thank you )

what are your goals for today? this week?

what are you grateful for about your workplace, wherever you find yourself working (home, remotely, with the kiddos etc.)?

how do you cope with feeling “so far away” from loved ones?

January 5, 2012 | Categories: inspirational escripts | 2 Comments »

choices – Donald Altman

Since October I have been reading in this daily meditation book that involves meal time and how I view food, in general (and specifically). It’s great, and today I want to share, straight from the text cited, with you!

Fight your shame. Throw your pride and learn all you can from others. This is the basis of a successful life. – Sen Rikyu, Sixteenth-Century Tea Master
Your meals represent a series of choices. Each choice is like a step that takes you in a particular direction. Over the years, similar choices, or habits, can lead you very far in one direction.
Ultimately, though, you are always free to choose another direction. You are always free to take a new step that is beyond habitual choice. Remember that healthy eating is also a habit and that change is always possible.
What one small acheivable step can you take today? Even if you choose to eat one bite of a food that you think would be beneficial for you, it is enough for now. What would that food be? What foods not on your current ‘choice’ list could contribute to your well being? What new small choice would you like to try today? – Donald Altman, Meal by Meal

You know, I was JUST going to begin a little post series on small goals for the new year. How many of you have BIG new year’s resolutions? How many of you do not believe in them?

One thing I though of yesterday was this: “Why not try to set a small goal each day, or perhaps one goal per week or per month, as a way of testing whether I can, even, achieve one?!”

How many of us, or perhaps it’s just me, set unrealistic goals that I can never achieve and, sometimes before I even begin to try and reach that goal, fail always? Lately I have tried setting one goal per week, like: “Deliver signed HR papers to Broad Street, Durham.” Hey, it seems silly, yes, but if I can set that goal and reach it, I’ve proved that I can do something. Perhaps if it is only to begin by setting small goals for ourselves, we realize that increasing those, or any, goals in siZE, gradually, may see us through to achieving those ones too!

begin small this year….and perhaps, gradually, you will see more and moRE of your goals set, ACHIEVED! – have a lovely day! – jasper naomi

January 4, 2012 | Categories: inspirational escripts | 5 Comments »

bird seed

I am, often, told that the foods I create are weird. Well this one’s no different folks! After purchasing boxes and boxes and boxes of packaged snack bars, my budget see’s this strange bulge in it’s grocery field. So in an effort to try and reduce unnecessary spending, I am trying to develop my own secret recipe for the perfect snack bar, of sorts. For now, I’ll just tell you that their might be pulverized dried apricot involved plus almonds, walnuts, cashews, food-processor-processed raisins and prunes. There may be a few other ingredients included on the list, as well.

Nonetheless, there may also be banana slices in the oven currently, cooking down to sticky banana for the next three hours. And that’s because I’m going to develop a banana nana bar recipe tonight or tomorrow. For these bird bars, I food processed the cashew, almond and walnuts separately from all of the other ingredients. And then I food processed the raisins, prunes and apricots.

Afterward, I combined all of the ingredients with salt, unsulphured blackstrap molasses and some uncooked quinoa for kicks.

Emptying the mixture onto cling wrap and using a rolling pin to even out the mixture was easy, too!Yum o!

Wendy and her family tried some but they did not seem to be so keep on the “date’-like” flavor.

After rolling out the mixture, I sliced the creation into snack-bar-sized pieces.

My aunt seemed to like them! She carried one to work with her this past Friday for a snack!

Have a wonderful windy Tuesday! (is windy here in NC anyhow!) much love – jasper

January 3, 2012 | Categories: inspirational escripts | 3 Comments »

shhhh sunday

January 1, 2012 | Categories: inspirational escripts | Leave A Comment »