Clearly, those of us who have been entrusted with precious children have been given a sacred, noble stewardship, for we are the ones God has appointed to encircle today’s children with love and the fire of faith and an understanding of who they are.

-M. Russel Ballard

"If you spend all of your time judging someone, you have no time to love them."

--Mother Teresa

"It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered in after ages." ~unknown~

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

- Harold J. Smith

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."

Charles R. Swindoll

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

- Lee Iacocca

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved"

-Helen Keller

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us...Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.



- Mother Teresa

The angels see you as dazzling young diamonds which are being polished to perfection.

- Elsa Joy Bailey,

Its never to late to be what you might have been!!


Your Actions will always speak louder then your words!


Believe in yourself and all your dreams!

Its not the years in your life that count but the life in your years.

-Abe Lincoln-

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, Open your mind to the wonders of life, Open your heart to those who love you, and ALWAYS BE TRUE TO YOURSELF!!

-Donna Davis-

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different.....I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I BELONGED TO MYSELF COMPLETELY did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns!

-Dorthy Allison

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

- Golda Meir

Stop worrying. babies do their own thing. Remember you are raising him not racing him. Do not hurry and do not worry, enjoy each adventure.


Elder Noel

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

-Winston Churchill

"The kind of beauty I want is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within- strength, courage, dignity."

-Ruby Dee

"Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad."

-Jennifer Gardner

"Inspiration does exsist, but it must find you working."

-Pablo Picasso

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

-Albert Einstein

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

-Oprah Winfrey

Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.

Happiness is a habit- cultivate it.

-Elbert Hubbard

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

'You did what you knew how to do. And when you knew better, you did better.'

Maya Angelou

Our home is a nurturing nest where I can learn all of the important things I will need to know when I am grown up and have to "fly" on my own, with my own wings. When it comes time to let me test my wings without you, and at times I will crash and burn. Remember that learning to fly on my own is another way to love me.

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I wanted to paint another one.


When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you feed a stray cat, and thought it was good to be kind to animals.

When you thought I wasn't looking. I saw you make my favorite cake just for me, and I knew that little things are special things.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I heard you say a prayer, and I believed there is a God I could always talk to.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I felt you kiss me good night, and I felt loved.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw tears come from your eyes, and I learned that sometimes things hurt, but it's alright to cry.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw that you cared and I wanted to be everything that I could be

When you thought I wasn't looking, I looked...and wanted to say thanks for all the things I saw when you thought I wasn't looking.

If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place, but have not love, I am a housekeeper-not a HOMEmaker.

If I have time for waxing , polishing, and deorative acheivements, but have not love, my children learn of cleanliness, not Godliness.

Love leaves the dust in search of a child's laugh.

Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on a newly cleaned window.

Love wipes away tears before it wipes up the spilled milk.

Love picks up the child before it picks up the toys.

Love is present through the trials.

Love reprimands, reproves, and is responsive.

Love crawls with the baby, walks with the toddler, runs with the child, then stands aside to let the youth walk into adulthood.

As a parent there is much I must teach my child, but the greatest of all is LOVE!!!

"Come what may, and Love It!"
Joseph B. Wirthlin


"Find Joy in the Journey"
President Thomas S. Monson

"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
Helen Keller

Live your life in such a way
That when your feet
hit the Floor in the morning
Satan shudders and says,
'Oh, crap...she's awake!'
Author Unknown


Thanks Suzanne for this one!

"Your toddler will do what they need to do, and not necessarily what you say. If you're patient, then they will be patient. If you speak gently, then they will be gentle. Whatever you want them to be, you have to start becoming." -Helen Hunt

I love John Mayer and this song he wrote. It reminds me to say something even if it might be hard this way we never regret saying nothing!

SAY

Take out of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all your so called problems
Better put them in quotations

Say what you need to say

Walkin' like a one man army
Fightin' wiht the shadows in your head
Livin' up the same old moment
Knowin' you'd be better off instead
If you could only

Say what you need to say

Have no fear for givin' in
Have no fear for givin' over
You better know that in the end
It's bette to say too much
Than never to say what you need to say again

Say what you need to say

Even if your hands are shakin'
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closin'
Do it with a heart wide open
A wide heart

Say what you need to say

"When our families are united in purpose, our homes become sanctuaries"

-President Monson

Be "HOME" makers

"Home is the basis of a righteous Life"

-President Monson

"Family is a building block of society"

-Margret Hatcher

"The one thing we know about eternity-FAMILIES."
-Elder Holland

It won't be easy but it will be possible."
-Elder Oaks

How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams!

With its ilusions, aspirations, dreams!

Book of Beginnings, story without end!

Each Maid a heroine and each man a friend!

-Longfellow

The tumult and the shouting dies
The captains and the kings depart
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice
An humble and a contrite heart

-Rudyard Kipling

"Nothing is ever what it seems, You think you've got it figures out and then you find yourself another layer. Life can bring you to your knees or lift you till you flying."

Another Layer by Jon McClaughlin

"The best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

-Teddy Roosevelt

"The only ones who never fail are the ones who never try."

-Rings from the Planet Heroes

"Mistakes and failures are great teachers. They provide the oppurtunity to learn and grow stronger and more capable." -Rings from Planet Heroes

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long."

"We KEEP MOVING FORWARD opening up new doors and doing new things, because we are curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." -Walt Disney

"Keep your mind wide open." -Bridge to Terabithia

"No life experience compares to family love. There is nothing I have done that rewards me as much as being a parent."
-Bertand Russell

The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better.
-Elder Bednar