The Dermody Family: Flashback Fridays 2009-7

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, July 17, 2009

Flashback Fridays 2009-7

This is Erin at my brother's wedding in March of 2001. Mercy, that would make her just barely 7 months old! I remember how nervous I would get when these two were playing their little circus games. Erin seems so little, but by the time this picture was taken this was an old trick for the two of them. As soon as Erin could stand on her little legs Bill started this "stand on Daddy's hand" game. It's a wonder she never got hurt.
Erin was the only one of our kids that would do this trick. Shannon wouldn't have anything to do with it and Sean did this a few times, but Erin LOVED it! Well, you can tell they are having fun. Even though you can't see Bill's face you can tell he is smiling, and maybe he's even talking to her in that higher pitched "baby" voice adults seem to use with babies. Erin looks totally amused and totally trusting in her daddy!

3 comments:

Lisa said...: I remember those days! He would swing her around and she'd hardly make a peep. What a great picture! So great, I might have to swipe it...; July 17, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Jenn said...: You may swipe it if you wish! Love ya!; July 18, 2009 at 1:18 AM
Lisa said...: I showed this to Isabel. She thought it was fun to see Erin as a baby. Isabel ADORES Erin and talks about her cousins all the time. We had so much time with you all - I wish it could have been longer!!; July 18, 2009 at 4:46 PM