The Dermody Family: Crane Beach Trip

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

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Crane Beach Trip

Two crazy moms (✔), twelve kids (✔), one fifteen passenger van (✔), one mapquest (✔), and a touch of adventure (✔) = one crazy perfect day at the beach! For all the details on the trip read this post by crazy mom ♯1 at Overthinking Everything (a really groovy blog BTW). I'm just too wiped out to write a lengthy post. I do wish that I owned a beach house and could be at the beach all the time, but there is that tiny little problem of how much sun I should get! Boooo, according to my rheumatologist just this past Monday it should be zip, zero, nada! I mean come on man, I have three kids! Crane Beach was fantastic. Great for small kids because the waves are teeny tiny. There were cool shells, nice fine sand, not too many peeps, and I plan to go back again. Okay so enough of this typing stuff here's what the family reads the blog for.......the pictures of the kids! They are the cutest kids after all so who can blame them? Not me.

2 comments:

Natalie said...: Wow - looks like so much fun! Wish i were there :); August 28, 2009 at 1:35 AM
Jennifer said...: You are the sweetest. I should have you teach me how to put links and "schmanzy" stuff on my blog :); August 28, 2009 at 11:43 PM