Happy at Home: simple things

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Our August Vacation

We stayed here, Pinetop, Arizona

We did simple things like roast marshmallows on campfires.

With Alec's good parents, Val and Laura

We saw beautiful things and places.

And then there was home sweet home!

Some of Our Favorite Quotes

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
-Henry Ward Beecher

"We are not raising grass! We are raising boys!"
-remember what's important

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
-James Matthew Barrie

We are all called upon to do great things with love.
-Mother Theresa

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my cheif duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
-Helen Keller

No one knows what a boy is worth, and the world must wait and see; for every man in an honored place, is a boy that used to be.
-Phillips Brooks

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-Marcel Proust

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."~Joyce Maynard