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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

Thursday, February 18, 2010

For Grandmother and Grandpa!

Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! The kids always LOVE when "the" box comes in the mail. Bill says it's no fair because the kids gobble all the laffy taffy while he slaves away at work. Boo hoo! They are all happy...me too with all those chocolate (dark) kisses!!!! Sean has rather enjoyed his cars and those Polly Pockets have been played with more by Sean than the girls. He loves to dress/undress them in the same outfit over and over again. Mercy.

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Barbara said...: Thanks for posting these cute pics Jenn. I love Sean's smile! He's such a happy little dude! It's so funny about him playing with the Polly Pockets. A couple of those Polly Pockets were definitely from Seattle with all those umbrellas!

I have made note that next time I need to put in more Laffy Taffy so Dad gets his fair share. Glad you enjoyed the dark kisses!; February 23, 2010 at 10:06 PM

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