The Dermody Family: Big BOY Bed!

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

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Big BOY Bed!

No "Wordless Wednesday" today, we have BIG news. Sean has a big boy bed! Yeah, let's shout HOORAY! I set the bed up yesterday, and he played in it all day. Then when it was bedtime, he climbed in, said his prayers, and went to sleep. Can this be true? I guess only time will tell how easy/hard it is to completely adjust him to his new bed, but for the first night it was smooth sailing! Sean is a BIG boy!
Can I just say how liberating it was to see the crib and the changing table go bye bye! Phew, that part of my life, as wonderful as it was, is over! Now, all the kids sleep through the night, most of the time anyway, and you are reading the words of one grateful momma! Happily, all that's left of the baby days are diapers.........

4 comments:

Brianne said...: Nice bed! We need to get one of those for Owen.; April 1, 2009 at 9:37 AM
another day in the life of... said...: Hooray! I'm with you on the celebration of moving past those stages. It is so nice to move into other, less exhausting phases of motherhood. (at least for now, i hear we need to gear up for the teenage years...!); April 2, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Natalie said...: I love your Wordless Wednesday idea. Congrats on the big bed!!!!; April 2, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Jenn said...: In all honesty, Wordless Wednesday was an idea I got off another blog. I loved it too! :D; April 2, 2009 at 11:08 PM