Mom's Letters: Christmas at Home

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Christmas at Home

The day before we left for Utah we had a family gifts exhange. Normally Santa brings the bigger, unwrapped gifts but we switched things up this year so that the Santa gifts could get home in the van... it was fun.

"Big Puppy", our new pet.

Jake's a train conductor (however not pictured due to the fact that he slept in).

Luke's a drummer boy.

Ashley's a McDonald's employee.

Mom's a chinese tourist (new camera - yay! I can finally retire my old one!).

Dad is Clark Griswald (thanks, Kanks).

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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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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Christmas at Home

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