Grant, Christine, Grace, Thaddeus, Madelyn & Ephraim: Sleeping In

"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 a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors 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 Pay Hinckley

"None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us."

--Sheri L. Dew

Monday, June 22, 2009

Sleeping In

When I was single I loved sleeping in, especially after my mission! But now, I despise it! My children are my alarm clock. I do not get out of bed until I have to get one of them. This is usually between 6-7am so not really lazy. Well, when I sleep in, that means they've slept in. Like today, Grace slept until 8:45 which pushes her nap to crazy land and means she is cranky all day and won't lay down on her own! It is 2:18 and I still haven't showered!