Keeping it Sweet N' Simple: September 2008

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Make me laugh!

I came into the kitchen and Spencer and Lindsey were just busting up with laughter. They were playing "make me laugh." One kid trying to keep a straight face while the other tries to make them laugh. They were being so cute I had to take some pictures!

GRASS!

Well, we finally seeded a few weeks ago, and actually have real grass growing!! It was so exciting when the first little sprigs started popping up. It gets thicker and thicker everyday. Yahoo!

Author Anna Quindlen reminds us not to rush past the fleeting moments. She said: “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).

Elder M. Russell Ballard, "Daughters of God" April 2008 conference

Keeping it Sweet N' Simple

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Make me laugh!

GRASS!

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