wendy's outlet

pictures i've taken. funny things my son says. thoughts i have.

[ihearthisto]

Once upon a slide…the first microbiology book for 5 year olds!

At last! No more bed time fairy tales about damsels in distress, princesses in pink and knights in white shining armor.

Move over Disney. This is a world we should be opening our kids up to. Steeped in reality. A world 1000x more exciting than those lands too far far far away, and it is all playing out under our very noses, inside our refrigerators, outside our back doors and throughout our own bodies.

Thank you to Nicola Davies (author) and Emily Sutton (illustrator) for this beautiful non-fiction children’s book that introduces young readers to microscopy.

I can’t wait to buy this for my nieces.

Let me know if you need help with the histological sequel ;)

i-heart-histo

Sources:

View more of Emily’s beautiful artwork at her website

Find out more about award winning author Nicola at her blog/website

Images and book (ISBN:1406341045) seen at amazon.com and via Walker Books 

[scishow]

We are SO down with this.

[itsokaytobesmart]

Where was this book when I was a kid?

[rhamphotheca]

Help Us Save the Bees

We need your help to turn back a new and dire threat to bees. Dow Chemical and Syngenta have asked EPA to allow them to ramp up the use of two pesticides that could have deadly consequences for bees. The public comment on this disastrous plan is open. Tell the EPA to reject this reckless proposal and save America’s bees.

www.SaveBeesNow.org

[wordishness-deactivated20150925]

Yoda, corporate shill.

[imprettycrafty]

she's cancer free!

i don't know how open i've been on here about it but my step-mom has been fighting breast cancer. she had surgery last week and tests confirmed that they removed all of the cancer. 

[dudeshesgay]

Stop planting flowers in peoples yards who aren’t going to water them.

Anonymous (via tintedgray)

[yogaholics]

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[two4fit]

TABLOID HEADLINES WITHOUT THE SEXISM

[maria-blogs-deactivated20141006]

"WOMAN IN TRACKSUIT PROBABLY NOT DISOWNED BY ENTIRE FAMILY"

[imprettycrafty]

every time i think i'm tapped out and i can't possibly do this any longer i find that i'm wrong.

i can't say that i've done it completely on my own but i do feel fortunate that i've been able to make the ends meet for the last three months despite us not having any real savings to fall back on. 

hopefully this will be over soon and we can start to put things back in order and get our finances straight. 

[imprettycrafty]

saw this on fb and had to share here.

[yogaholics]

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[imprettycrafty]

i got almost the same thing for mother's day as i for got for our anniversary. at least he's consistent. 

[noncomposmentos]

"One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

eleven, twelve.”

[thisismyboard]

And now you’re singing it!

[inspo-motivate]

[animalsnaps]

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[imprettycrafty]

please

[imprettycrafty]

from nothing to too much

this month i went from being a stay at home mom to trying to start a business while working as an assistant at weddings and now having a part time job in the daycare at my gym so i don't have to drop my gym membership. 

which is totally backfiring because now i'm working during all of the classes that i wanted to keep the gym membership for anyway. 

i went from spending every day with my children to working every single day this week. monday-thursday at the gym and friday and saturday weddings. 

during my free time (read time that i'm not contracted to be somewhere else) i have to post on my business facebook page, answer client inquiries, package this big dance school order, get prepared for the swim team pictures which are in three weeks, manage to keep my house clean enough that they won't come take my kids away, and also spend enough time with them to show them that i still love them. 

husband tries to help but his side work that he's been doing for a friend is physical labor outside and it's almost 90 degrees here already. this means that he barely has enough energy at the end of the day to take care of the kids while i'm working. cleaning is apparently still my job.

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