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  • Portrait Giveaway Winner : Week #3

    January
    17
    2009

    Miranda aka Mojo
    After much deliberation, I’ve selected DaGoddess’ entry as the winner of a custom graphite portrait for Week #3 of my custom portrait giveaway.

    Once again, your entries touched my heart and your photos made me smile. It took me a little longer to decide this time, it’s really hard to choose! I loved this story of Mojo (aka Miranda) as a baby, it really brought back floods of memories of similar experiences with my own daughters. Those times are so precious, and I think her story reminded me that I need to really keep those memories tucked away in a safe spot, and remember where I put them for future reference. I am really touched that after 15-16 years, DaGoddess tells the story like it happened just the other day, and then to see the beautiful young woman she is becoming – just tugs on my heartstrings in a mommy kind of way.

    Here’s her story:

    Gotta share a story about her that truly captures her unique brand of wackiness. You see, she was born that way and ’round about the time she was 14 or 15 months old, her sense of humor was already apparent. One Saturday morning — far too early, of course, I’d heard her stirring in her room and went in to get her. I changed her, grabbed her a cup of juice, and I brought her into bed with me. She took her usual few sips of juice, handed me her sippy cup, and curled up like she was ready to go back to sleep. I put the cup on the old drafting table next to the bed and curled myself around my sweet little child. A couple minutes of fidgeting later, she said, “dink, Mommy, dink!” which meant she wanted her drink. While I rolled over and reached for it, she was busy stealing my pillow. As I rolled back with the drink, I felt the absence of said pillow, and looked at her. She was lying on top of the pillow, very still, covers pulled up tight under her chin, eyes closed pretending to sleep. There was even an attempt at “snoring” for my benefit. And slowly, the impish grin spread across her face and the giggling started. Yes, my young toddler was a prankster! There was no way I could sleep after that. In fact, we got up to grab breakfast and play silly games the rest of the morning, after which I spent at least two hours calling family and regaling them with Miranda’s latest clever plot to make me laugh.

    She’s sixteen now and very much still a goofball who loves playing jokes on family and friends. They’re never malicious, always done in the name of fun. Thankfully, after scaring us with her New Year’s adventures, she’s okay and will be back to pranking us in due time.

    Congrats, DaGoddess, you’ll see your baby’s portrait on Monday!

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    {8 Comments}

    1
    pam said,

    Joanie, congratulations!!!! That’s awesome! Can’t wait to see the portrait! 😀

    1.17.2009 @ 11:25 am
    2
    Paige said,

    Beautiful girl and beautiful story. Tugged at my heart too!

    1.17.2009 @ 12:55 pm
    3
    Da Goddess said,

    Thanks so much, Leanne! After the scare this child has put into me, every single moment we’ve shared takes on a brand new “specialness”.

    Now, please excuse me while I begin my inner dancing.

    1.17.2009 @ 9:13 pm
    4
    Tink said,

    Congratulations, DaGoddess! She is beautiful and I’m sure Leanne will do her justice.
    I received the Foofur portrait and the real thing is even more fabulous than the scan!! 🙂

    1.18.2009 @ 5:37 am
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    Tabatha said,

    Congrats DaGoddess! This one was my favorite from last week too! I can’t wait to see her in graphite. She’s such a beautiful girl!

    1.18.2009 @ 10:18 am
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    Erin said,

    Congrats, Joanie! Of course you and Mojo would win, we all knew it, right? Can’t wait to see the portrait…

    1.18.2009 @ 8:23 pm
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    Da Goddess said,

    Thanks to all of you very kind people. I told Mojo tonight about the portrait and she’s both thrilled and horribly self-conscious now. But mostly thrilled. And she’s doing so much better! She’s actually returning to school on Wednesday. Woo hoo! :yahoo:

    1.19.2009 @ 1:07 am
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