"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

Sunday, January 8, 2012

After Christmas

Christmas was super quiet and lonely, but here are some highlights. Grace with the hand-me-down playhouse she loved!

Thaddeus' train. If I hadn't named him I'd think that was his middle name!



And a random photo of how Thaddeus makes good use of our magnetic letters! He has learned quite a few of their names though, don't let him fool you!!


And one comment concerning attention spans. We all complain that children won't sit long enough etc, but I have learned that adults can be just as bad. I am speaking of myself. I have been in primary/nursery so long that to sit through Relief Society or Sunday School is almost torture. Try as I might to focus and find things that are new and interesting (no matter the skill of the teacher) I find my mind wanders and I can focus for only a few minutes before I am wondering to myself what Sister Jones' skirt is made of. With the new year we lost 12 of our 17 nursery children and so the last hour I have been sneaking out to go to RS. I don't know how long I can keep it up though! :)
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