So Here's The Thing...: Adjusting to Nora

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Adjusting to Nora

1 comment:

Amanda, Curtis, Ellis, Hugh, Rhys, Graham, Sylvia said...: These pictures say so much! I am just sitting here crying happy tears after reading about Nora's birth and looking at your family in the pictures together. So good! Good job, Sandy! Love that you got to use your voice to get that baby here and that you got to feel so great so soon after delivery. I have been on vacation and haven't been checking any email, so I was thrilled when I got back last night and read your good news. Love it all and am so happy for you. I hope you've been able to hang in there these past couple of weeks as some of the soreness and exhaustion hits full force. You all look beautiful! Beautiful family!; August 17, 2015 at 12:31 AM

Words of Wisdom

“I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”

-Marjorie Hinckley

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

-Logan Pearsall Smith

"Sometimes we fill our lives with hobbies or pursuits that produce more immediate rewards. If we aren't careful, we start to resent our children and see them as obstructions to the things that bring us real pleasure. The key is to discover pleasure in our children--to make them central, to genuinely value them during the relatively short time that they are in our home. The day will come that you will be free to spend whole days any way you want-- you can travel, go to school, or go in your room and shut the door. But today, you are a mother."
-Jane (from blog Asking Jane)

"Never forget that these little ones are the sons and daughters of God and that yours is a custodial relationship to them, that He was a parent before you were parents and that He has not relinquished His parental rights or interest in these little ones."
-President Gordon B. Hinckley

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
-Thomas Carlyle