Mom's Letters: The House we now call HOME

Thursday, April 23, 2009

The House we now call HOME

I walked through the house this afternoon with my camera and took pictures of the house in its natural state. Ali and Maddie have been asking me for pictures. It is so great to be here and settling in. We are sad that we didn't make it up to Utah to live closer to family, but feel like we were led to this home and ward and neighborhood and feel grateful for the blessings that are coming into our lives because of it.

2 comments:

Wendy said...: it looks like you've been living there a while - and I'm sure your kids just love that big play room! Enjoy the space!; April 27, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Jana said...: Darling bedspread for Miss Ashley. Can't wait to see it in person! Love ya; April 29, 2009 at 6:21 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, April 23, 2009

The House we now call HOME

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