Poe

ANNABEL LEE

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love -
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me
Yes! that was the reason
(as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

This is my favorite Poe piece- BY FAR.

I actually adore Edgar Allan Poe, always have.

Want to know something AMAZING? HE is buried right outside my window at work.

I know that some people might find this gross. But I think that it is wonderful, amazing and well, completely awesome. I love the history of burial grounds and old churches. I love having such an incredible artist's life remembered and celebrated only a glance out my window.

This is just one thing that I love about my new job

in 5 minutes- 2 best convos

Quinn: Mom these two stegosauruses just got married and now they are MATING with the herd.
Me: WHAT?!?!?!?!?
Quinn: They got married Mom.... and now they are MEETING the herd.
Me: oh, ok... that's nice.

I was seriously about to get worried...

and then like 3 minutes later:

Quinn: Daddy, you can be Ironman for Halloween.
Me: Why honey?
Quinn: because Daddy is so strong!
Me: Yeah!
Quinn: and Mommy, you can be Lady Gaga!
Me: why Q?!?!
Quinn: because you're a girl. and cause you're COOL!

****Quinn is awesome****

gold

Quinn had her 4 year check up yesterday. She got 5 shots. 5! Then on top of it, her Hopkins nurse came to the appointment to to get blood samples.

Quinn was a complete mess.

Last night when she was going to bed I reminded her that she can pray to Heavenly Father to ask him to help her feel better.

She then ask me how that worked and I told her that He can make miracles happen.
Next she asked me what a miracle was. I explained that it is sort of like magic and how He can make booboos go away.
She then told me that she would ask him in her prayer.
It went something like this:
"Dear Heavenly Poder, thank you for this day.
Can you tell me how you do magic?
Say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen."

Dan and I tried not to chuckle because we know that her prayers are very important and serious- yet I couldn't help but smile at the sweetness of it all.

Then Quinn told me in the most serious and excited voice that He spoke to her.
I asked her what He said.
She replied "Gold, he makes his magic with gold!"


and we left it at that.

Christmas Gifts

I am almost done Christmas shopping for Quinn (birthday too!). My most recent purchase I just had to share because it was such a steal!

Where to find it:
Does your Walmart have a clearance toy aisle? Well mine does and I go down it frequently to spot deals like this.

What is it:
It is a wooden Noah's Ark toy set made by Garanimal's. Quinn loves flat toys (like the wooden dress up dolls) so I figure that this will totally be a keeper with all of the animals!

How much was it:
$2.50
Yup, that is it!!! I couldn't believe it when I took the box over to the self-scanner price checker. (I actually scanned it twice to make sure, hehe)

Here is a link to it from Amazon

There were only around 3 left at my Walmart. I wanted to buy them all and give them out but I didn't for some reason. (Oh, right... because I had a crying girl in my cart that NEEDED the play kitty that was hidden directly under her in the cart. Sneakiness is SO hard!)

I just might go back and see if I can snatch them up.

Smithsonian

Two weekends ago we went to the Smithsonian.

Quinn was in LOVE with the Dinosaur exhibit.

More specifically, this guy- "Big Al" as he is known around here.

Quinn rode on her Daddy's shoulders the whole time.

1/3 because she was too short to see
1/3 because she gets tired was too easily

and 1/3 because it was SO packed in there and I was a nervous wreck!

This guy is another favorite around here: the Pteranodon.

She loved exploring the other exhibits too (but they couldn't hold a candle to the dinos!)

Then we went to a fun little deli chain and shared a yummy panini!
Talk about fun family day trip!
(oh and notice her shirt?!?! Mom got it for her and she loves it)

Storyville

Our local library has Storyville. It is amazing and fun and best of all... FREE!

While at Storyville Quinn gets to play:

Architect

Cook / Mommy



Actor

Star in Puppet Show



Griller

and even go shopping.

In Storyville, there is also a library, post office, house, train, and woods.
She has so much fun there. We have been a couple times and she loves it. Only problem, we left there the last time and each got the sniffles :(

new LOVE

My girl LOVES dinosaurs. We got her this new "Spooky" hat from the dollar store and she feels so cool when she wears it.

and this treasure is "Big Al". (The allosaurus) I made him for Quinn without any plan in mind and well... you can tell. We actually had to change his eyes after one day. He had pearl eyes but now has orange plastic eyes. Quinn thinks that he is amazing and well, I won't tell her any differently!



and these...

I just thought that she looked darling. :)