Painted Toes

Last night Mommy painted all of our girls' toenails. She even put flower stickers on our big toes.

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Happy Mother's Day!

The Cost of Motherhood
Once a lady went to visit her friend. During the visit the children of the friend entered the room and began to play with each other. As the lady and her friend visited, the lady turned to her friend and said eagerly and yet with evidently no thought of the meaning of her words: “Oh, I’d give my life to have such children.” The mother replied with a subdued earnestness whose quiet told of the depth of experience out of which her words came: “That’s exactly what it costs.”

I found this little story on Mr. Phillips' blog. My mother is constantly telling us how true this is. Her hope for us is that we, too, will find contentment in our Biblical calling, dedicate our lives to service to our protegy, and that we will forgo momentary pleasure for eternal rewards.


We had a very busy Mother's Day. After church, we had a family gathering at Grammy and Papa's house and we got home late, so we had our own celebration on Monday night with gifts and chocolate covered strawberries and pineapple - Yummy!

Thank you for all you do and happy Mother's Day, Mommy! We love you!

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Our 16 New Pets

Papa gave us these tadpoles from Grammy's flower garden pond on Sunday. Not really pets, but it is fun to watch them grow. Elly and Selah are fascinated with them! It is fun to be a part of their curiosity and teaching!

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Practicing Motherhood

When I am a mother this is what I'm going to do with my 1 and 3 year olds. We are going to cuddle up in the rocking chair with their favorite puppy and just sit there, rocking and singing. My own mother has done this with each of us children and I think we all remember those times in our lives (and LOVE it)!

A note about the picture: Wallace is not much of a cuddler. He only likes to be held when it's his idea. That being said, when he climbed up in my lap next to William and let me run my fingers though his hair, I had to have Abby take a picture!

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Oops!

I'm sorry, Mrs. V, I forgot to post the picture of Rosaleen's quilt!

Here's our latest sewing project:

It was so much fun seeing Aunt Sunny, Uncle Ben, and little Rosaleen! I wish they didn't live so far away! We are trying to convince them to move here!

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