Holdin' Down the Fort: more snow

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

more snow

3 comments:

Summer Freeman said...: SOOO FUNNNN!!! Wish we could have gone!! The cabin is beautiful!; February 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM
craptasticcancer.blogspot.com said...: That looks like a lot of fun. I think I need to enjoy the snow instead of complain about it!; February 18, 2009 at 5:09 PM
M&M_Mama said...: Looks like you had a BLAST!! What a great time. Wish I could have gotten in on that dodgeball game. :) The cabin is beautiful. Wow! You will have so many more memories to come there.; February 21, 2009 at 10:38 PM

View From the Hill

How do we reduce the pressure and enjoy our families more? "...recognize that the joy of motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times. But amid the challenges, there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction. 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" (from "Daughters of God", Ballard April 2008; click on image for complete article)