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Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good
or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps
itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her
caress that first awakens a sense of security, her kiss, the first
realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first
assurance that there is love in the world." ~ David O. McKay

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"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."

Confucius

Big 5 Tag

What were you doing five years ago?
1-giving my notice to my real world job of working full time as an educational interpreter for the deaf
2- Trying to figure out how to be a happy mom to 2 under 2.
3- buying a double jogging stroller
4- settling into our first real live house, making it become a home (still a work in progress I'm afraid)
5- finishing up my degree in educational interpreting


What are five things to do on your list for today?
1- sleep
2-sleep
3-sleep
4-sleep
5-sleep

What are five snacks you enjoy?
1- cream puffs
2-apples with a little salt
3- pears with honey drizzled on top
4- almonds
5-string cheese

What five things would you do if you were a billionaire?
1- Pay off all our debts
2- Fill up accounts for colleges and missions
3-buy a hybrid
4-put our home up for sale and move to a friendlier neighborhood
5-make charitable donations to organizations such as the CFSC

What are five of your bad habits?
1- Getting sucked into a book to the exclusion of all else
2- Saying "yes" when I should say "no" (but I'm getting better)
3- Spending too much time on the computer
4- according to my dh my only bad habit is that I just put the pans away in the cupboard and don't take the time to re-stack them properly
5- putting off until later what I don't want to do now

What are five jobs you have had?
1- Mom -- best job ever!
2- Educational Interpreter for the deaf
3- nanny
4-associate for department store
5- factory worker (cheese, canned beans, etc.)

What five people do you want to tag?
1- Melinda
2- Jane
3- Brekke
4- Lara
5- Tracy

Thanks Constance for motivating me to do more than sleep today.

Have you ever tasted a Pawdohwahp?

My little comedian has been telling stories and here is his latest.


Once upon a time there was a Pawdowahp. It lived in a pond. It felt the boughter (rhymes with daughter). A boughter is a kind of machine that lives on earth and it is kind of fuzzy. The boughter digged up the Pawdowahp with its big claws. Everyone heard it go, CRUNCH! Then the boughter flipped over and dropped the Pawdowahp. Then came a big Giant through the forest to the pond and it picked up the Pawdowahp and ate it. Soon the Giant said, "aaaaargh" and threw up the Pawdowahp into the deep pond water. The Giant cried and ran to find its mommy. He never ate another Pawdowahp. He always told his friends to Hang-dwop if they saw a Pawdowahp.

The End

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“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less”(Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11). Anna Quindlen