The Dermody Family: Flashback Fridays 2009-8

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 24, 2009

Flashback Fridays 2009-8

Can't believe that I am posting this picture, but this is me. I haven't a clue as to how old I was in the picture, maybe nine or so. My mom, bless her heart, use to MAKE us roll our hair. I think these are hot rollers, but often my Mawmaw (cajun word for Grandmother) Bernice would roll our hair with bobby pins and rags or little square tissues of spongy paper. As you can tell I'm not quite sure exactly how she did those bobby pin rolls, but I know it was not fun to have them put in. I remember sleeping a many of nights with a head full of bobby pin rolls. Not comfortable at all, and WOE what tight little curls would spring to life when my hair was released. Crazy times. I did vow NEVER to do this to my girls, and I have yet to make them sleep in curlers. LOL, but there's always tomorrow. Maybe this could be a new form of discipline.....NOT!!!!

3 comments:

Brianne said...: Fun times! My mom loved to put my hair in those pink foam curlers and make me sleep on them...so uncomfortable! I had stick straight hair in those days though. I think some day I'll let Holly experience the curlers on your head all night long experience. It will make for a fun picture at least!; July 25, 2009 at 8:23 AM
Brownie Bites said...: I just got finished rolling Sydney's hair in foam rollers. She asked me to do it. Curly hair in the morning. Yipee!; July 25, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Jenn said...: I can't believe someone would ask to have their hair in rollers, and to sleep with them in. Amazing! It's all perspective!; July 26, 2009 at 12:12 AM