Blog This Mom!: How Do You Like Your World View?

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

How Do You Like Your World View?

I ~~like~~ love to see the world through the handprints of a child.

How do you like your world view?

23 comments:

just jamie said...: One in four chance I had something to do with that...

('Cause it's all about me, right?); August 16, 2009 3:13 PM
Cheri @ Blog This Mom! said...: @just jamie:

Hee hee.

As I was taking this picture? Laura said, "I did that today!"

Or . . . it was the underground bunny.; August 16, 2009 3:19 PM
Gary Rith Pottery Blog said...: is that your BACK YARD?????; August 16, 2009 3:45 PM
Fragrant Liar said...: Clearer the better. :) But little handprints actually sharpen the whole point of being here.; August 16, 2009 3:49 PM
g said...: Ha!

I will say, I think my mom taught me at an early age how to clean mirrors and things with windex and paper towels....I think she had something in mind.; August 16, 2009 5:40 PM
Chief said...: Through the slobber of a dog. I don't have a picture but you get the point.; August 16, 2009 5:41 PM
phd in yogurtry said...: My world view a few minutes ago was looking out my back window at a squirrel sitting in a tree eating the inside of my discarded prickly pear. He was chowing down! I've never seen that before.; August 16, 2009 5:55 PM
She said...: Today, my world view is in question! ;-)

I love looking through Laura's hand print at your beautiful backyard, though!; August 16, 2009 5:58 PM
smalltownmom said...: I have one of those prints on the car's passenger window. This summer, my world view has been through the windows of my car while driving my son.; August 16, 2009 6:29 PM
Amber M. said...: Way to capture the moment, Cherie. In no time at all she'll be leaving fingerprints at her own house and not at yours anymore.; August 16, 2009 6:37 PM
Jason, as himself said...: At my grandson's birthday party, Diego and his little friend asked if they could borrow my camera. They smudged frosting all over the lens and then took pictures of each other's belly buttons!!! Very strange photographs.; August 16, 2009 7:13 PM
bernthis said...: I love it at the moment. Quiet, green, my parents home is in the most lovely neighborhood; August 16, 2009 8:34 PM
blognut said...: I think a view of the world through the handprint of a child is just fine, as long as it isn't on the windshield of my car.

'Cause then it's annoying.; August 17, 2009 3:33 AM
Green Girl in Wisconsin said...: Ah, that smeary view is kind of relaxing. It's even better with a side of sticky kisses;); August 17, 2009 5:22 AM
mo.stoneskin said...: With our daughter's obsession with windows and mirrors you should pop by...; August 17, 2009 5:47 AM
jimgottuso said...: love my worldview but am distraught at how few share it... although it could only be improved by looking through a handprint smudge; August 17, 2009 7:39 AM
katydidnot said...: rose colored glasses.; August 17, 2009 12:14 PM
BOSSY said...: How very cool.; August 17, 2009 3:24 PM
kcinnova said...: Today my view was 500 miles seen through a bug-splattered front window of a minivan. Still, it's a beautiful world out there. Also, no children were strung up by their toenails during the weekend vacation. AND, I got to meet Gary!! :); August 17, 2009 6:38 PM
Seraphine said...: i like to see everything through rose-colored glasses.
which is to say, in the best light possible.; August 17, 2009 7:56 PM
Helen E.M. Wright said...: you could totally pass that off as a ghost!; August 18, 2009 6:01 AM
Threeundertwo said...: Our windows include nose prints. Your kids are clearly underachievers.

(And I second the exclamation - your back yard looks like a resort!); August 18, 2009 10:18 AM
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Sorry for offtopic; November 12, 2009 8:46 PM