Mom, do you want to play "Google" with me? (She meant "Boggle.")--Eliza

Rebecca was hanging the "Mistletoe Testing Done Here" sign over the door and told me, "You make sure you kiss Daddy under here."

Pardoning any irreverance, we chuckled at the local versions of Christmas songs Peter and Anna unknowingly invented:

"Oh, tiny bum..." (Peter singing to "O Tannenbaum" with Mannheim Steamroller. He laughed his head off when we told him what the words really were.)

"Glory to God in the haunted house" (Anna, after church, where we had sung, "Angels We Have Heard on High")

(After coming back from the mall with packages in her hands) "I just love this 'shopdrenalin!' "  --Sarah

I think she just coined a new word! (November 2008)

Remember that soothing, calming effect of reading the scriptures. Next time you are where they are read, notice how things settle down. Sense the feeling of peace and security that comes.

Boyd K. Packer

"OK, who even made up fruitcake?!"  --Sarah

The more I exercise self-control, the better I feel.

Lane

There seems to be a superstition among thousands of our young who hold hands and smooch in the drive-ins that marriage is a cottage surrounded by perpetual hollyhocks to which a perpetually young and handsome husband comes home to a pertually young and ravising wife. When the hollyhocks wither and boredom and bills appear the divorce courts are jammed.... Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time rail journey...delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling burst of speed.

Jenkins Lloyd Jones
“Big Rock Candy Mountains”
Deseret News, June 12, 1973, A4

Quoted by President Gordon B. Hinckley, "What God Hath Joined Together," Ensign, May 1991 and "A Conversation with Single Adults," Liahona, November 1997.

Children's quotes

Sarah and I were discussing dinner. "You could do whole wheat spaghetti," I suggested. Her response: "And I could die."

Anna couldn't find Peter. "Where'd my best buddy go?"

There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. The choice is different and unique for each mother and each family.... What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and for her husband, prioritizes them above all else.

M. Russell Ballard

Grace shall be as your day.

William Clayton

Be kind to yourself.

Marion Wright, mother of 12, one of the kindest women I know

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things will work out.

President Gordon B. Hinckley