The Dermody Family: Tah-Dah, New Easter Baskets!

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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, April 10, 2009

Tah-Dah, New Easter Baskets!

Somewhere, in ONE of the trillion (that seems to be such a popular number these days) boxes I have yet to unpack are Erin and Shannon's Easter baskets, and I can't find them. Drat! Solution to the prob.....new baskets! I went to SUPER Wal-Mart looking for a SUPER Easter basket at a SUPER price, but nope, they were cleaned out of cute baskets or baskets of any kind. Well I take that back, there are plenty baskets that are already filled, but I don't like those. So, I grabbed two brown baskets, that's all they had, and I added some beaded fringe. Ha! Watch out all you crafty ladies, I have a glue gun, and I will use it from time to time. I think they turned out cute if I may say so myself, and I may, it's my blog after all. I hope the girls like them, I used their fav colors, blue for Erin and pink for Sissy!

2 comments:

Brianne said...: Those are some cute baskets! We were at SUPER Walmart today too. The Easter aisle was crazy. I guess that will teach me to go Easter shopping 2 days before Easter.; April 10, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Debbie said...: What does Sean's look like? They are so cute!! Happy Easter.; April 10, 2009 at 10:19 PM