Once Upon A Time: November 2011

Taliah was jealous that Kallai got to go camping with his scout troop this weekend, and she couldn't go. she and I decided to camp out in the back yard. We pitched a tent, and made s'mores over the barbecue. Fun times!

Favorite Quotes

Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.”7
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

-Mother Teresa

I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

- Marjorie Hinckley

"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed...Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed

only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride." Gordon B. Hinckley

Sometimes God calms the storm. Sometimes He calms the sailor. And sometimes He makes us swim. -John Groberg

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