"Yeah, But What IF....?"

I'd be willing to gamble that anyone with children has at one point heard,

"Yeah, but what iiiiiiiiiiif

      [fill in the blank with just about anything here]     ???"

It's part of the daily questioning here at our house, usually the promptings of silly wanderings in Sydni's imagination. Since she's a 4-year-old little girl, the Disney princesses are also a very frequent topic of conversation.

Today we found a what if that involved some of the classic Disney gals.

.... Perfect.

Disclaimer: Because someone out there is bound to run across this and declare that I've opted to take credit for everything below, know this: These are NOT my original ideas, drawings or finished products. There. These are from the creative genius of Tumblr gal lettherebedoodles; we just found them fun enough to share. #lettherebedoodles, in case you're into all that hashtaggish stuff, too. ;)

Anywho, here's the fun that is the re-imagined version of the Disney royalty: 

snow white

cinderella

jasmine

aurora

ariel

pocahontas

belle

I thought those were fun! Of course there was the slew of feedback bashing the ethnic translations of each one for whatever supposedly racist innuendo, but frankly, I'm choosing to believe that this gal perhaps just wanted to play around with her creative side, rather than wage some sort of anti-[insert culture here] war. I visited her page, and nowhere in this post did she claim that the re-created versions are the better of the two, or that hers are the way they should've been, etc. I've decided not to read into this on a political or racial level; I think the artist here is talented and just had some fun with this!

 

Sydni had fun checking these out, too, which I enjoyed. A childlike approach to the smallest things, without a 50-page dissertation on why they are or are not correct, is refreshing. (:

 

Also.... the weekend's HERE!

Enjoy!

 

xo | cmd

Christmas Was INDEED Merry

Hey there, friends & family......

!!!!!!!!!merry christmas!!!!!!!!!

Santa spoiled my kid this year. What else is new. Haha. We managed to make it through the morning without much fuss, and let me tell you, Syd made out like a bandit in an empty bank....

backseat roadtripper... passed out.... like this (:

We are.... home. And by home, this time I mean back in Illinois. I wasn't thrilled that I had to drive 8+hours on Christmas day, but it was totally worth it. We got to do some Christmas stuff [aka Santa stuff] early this morning for Sydni before we hit the road, and fortunately the drive went off without a hitch - no traffic or weather issues = awesome. 

farewell.... for now (:

I received something like four or five weather alerts to my phone as I was heading back, cautioning me of impending white death, aka a blizzard of some sort. I have a couple of friends who will be travelling in the next couple of days, so I'm saying prayers now for safe travel & arrival. Winter is fashionably late, but that seems just about customary for the midwest anyway (:

Anyway, Sydni and I made it back safely, got unloaded and are settling in. That being as it is, this house still has some sort of grinch bug, because the entire thing was chilled to a nice 59 degrees when we got here. Rob was thoughtful enough to offer up two space heaters to keep us from freezing tonight [for which I owe him major major kudos]. While he was at it, he did some diagnostics on the furnace itself and concluded with a bunch of jargon I didn't really understand, but grasped enough to pass along to the landlords and the HVAC repair folk whenever I call them tomorrow. He's still scouring the internet doing research on it as we speak. I'll take more notes when he's done. Haha...

I love having handyman friends. It's refreshing.
It'll be even better when my house doesn't feel like my refrigerator (: ... just a sidenote.

It was a bit of an up-and-down weekend, certainly with more ups than downs, but when it was all said and done, I couldn't have imagined it any other way and I'm beyond grateful for every bit of it.

This is one happy girl.
Merry Christmas, blogbots :) :)

xo | cmd