Day Seventeen: The Ultimate Career

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."
-C.S. Lewis

more valentine fun

p.s. Third grade boys + Valentine's Day = hilarity

I was in charge of Valentine Bingo for Kensie's party, and the boys cringed when I called out "Love Me", rolled their eyes at "Hi, Doll", and made puking noises when I announced "Kiss, Kiss".

The girls, on the other hand, were totally into it Ü

Day Sixteen: Succeeding

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-Bessie Anderson Stanley

Day Fifteen: Miracles

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-Albert Einstein

Day Fourteen: Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

-William Shakespeare

Day Thirteen: Change

"All changes...have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves."
-Anataole France

Day Twelve: Discovery

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
-Marcel Proust

Day Eleven: Living

Just living is not enough...one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
-Hans Christian Anderson

Day Ten: Be Yourself

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day Nine: Women

"The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity."
-Margaret Nadauld