Mom's Letters: Thanks Grandma!!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Thanks Grandma!!

Today we received a package from grandma that couldn't have been more perfect. The games she sent Ashley and Luke were darling and right up their alleys (kitchen food and pirates!). The timing of the package was nice, too because I had just laid Jake down when it arrived so we had an hour or so to play picnic and build the ship in peace. Thank you so much, mom. Score for you on that one! Love you! Also, for my mom friends, the website these great toys are found on is sillygoosekids.com It is a friend of ours whose business it is, and I think the toys there are wonderful because they are unique and "learning toys" for a good price. Check it out.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: anne, you really know how to make a grandma feel good! i am so glad the kids loved their gifts. i love you all so much, wish i could b there for thanksgiving, but alas, someone has to stay behind and cook! love you guys.. mom; November 16, 2007 at 2:10 PM
Dana Christensen said...: Anne! This takes me back to us waitng and waiting in DT for a package from home. It could turn any day around! Your kidlets are adorable!! Love you!; November 17, 2007 at 8:32 PM
The Thompson's said...: That picnic game looks so cute! I'll have to check out the website! I love learning toys like that too. So fun to get a package from Grandma.; November 19, 2007 at 7:03 PM

Mom's Favorite Quotes

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 a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors 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 the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Thanks Grandma!!

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