The Dermody Family: It's what's for dinner tonight.....

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

Friday, February 6, 2009

It's what's for dinner tonight.....

Wanna come over....just kidding, I don't live in the deep south anymore. That, in this case in particular, is a good thing!!!! Know what it is? Bon Appetit!

5 comments:

Brownie Bites said...: Is that an armadillo? And did you really take that picture? Wow, the wildlife you encounter.; February 6, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Jenn said...: It is just that! It's Bill's picture from TX. I have seen them many times in LA, but never anywhere else. Just for the record, I have never eaten one either. I am sure someone has eaten this, but not me. I am guilty of some other, what would some say, "exotic" foods though. I am just messin' with ppl. LOL.; February 6, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Jenn said...: When Erin read this post she started to cry and said, "I don't want to eat that for dinner. It looks gross and nasty!" I did tease her for just and minute and then confirmed that we were not really going to eat this for dinner tonight, but maybe tomorrow! ;); February 6, 2009 at 5:17 PM
The Martin Family said...: I thought they were called possum on a half shell in the south!; February 14, 2009 at 1:22 AM
Jenn said...: Stac, are you blogging now!? And yes, I've heard it called that in the south. Personally, I couldn't eat either one!!!!!; February 14, 2009 at 10:39 AM