The Dermody Family: This time it was SEAN!

Journals/Blogs

President Kimball said, "People often use the excuse that their lives are uneventful and nobody would be interested in what they have done. But I promise you that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us—and as our posterity read of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted."

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows might go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Kahlil Gibran

Build Wisely

A HOME IS MUCH MORE THAN A HOUSE BUILT OF LUMBER, BRICK, OR STONE. A HOME IS MADE OF LOVE, SACRIFICE, AND RESPECT. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HOMES WE BUILD. WE MUST BUILD WISELY, FOR ETERNITY IS NOT A SHORT VOYAGE. THERE WILL BE CALM AND WIND, SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW, JOY AND SORROW. BUT IF WE REALLY TRY, OUR HOME CAN BE A BIT OF HEAVEN HERE ON EARTH. THE THOUGHTS WE THINK, THE DEEDS WE DO, THE LIVES WE LIVE NOT ONLY INFLUENCE THE SUCCESS OF OUR EARTHLY JOURNEY, THEY ALSO MARK THE WAY TO OUR ETERNAL GOALS.

--THOMAS S.MONSON

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

This time it was SEAN!

My poor kitchen table. Once again the graffiti revolves around Sissy and practicing her ABC's. We have a dry erase board that she writes her letters on everyday that she left on the table. When Shannon was done and after she had abandoned her work, Sean didn't wait around for an invitation, but he just helped himself to the markers. I was able to get it off, mostly, but there is still a faint hint that it was there. At least I have a table cloth.

4 comments:

Brianne said...: Poor table! I guess I shouldn't buy a new dining room set until after the kids are grown!; August 5, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Anonymous said...: I would have cried...; August 5, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Jocelyn said...: have you tried those MR Clean, magic erasers? they work wonders!; August 5, 2008 at 5:56 PM
another day in the life of... said...: Magic Erasers are awesome. But I don't know how many times I have relied on a clean tablecloth last minute when people where coming over...; August 6, 2008 at 8:39 PM