Thursday, October 30, 2008
Can we keep them?
We've always talked about getting a few outdoor cats... it's taken a while, but we finally found some that won't be spooked by our crazy dogs...
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thoughts for Easter
"Now let the heavens be joyful, Let earth her song begin. Let the round world keep triumph, And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen - Our joy that hath no end."
~Saint John of Damascus
"If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!"
~ Clarence W. Hall
~Saint John of Damascus
"If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!"
~ Clarence W. Hall
thoughts for the week
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
~ Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss)
"Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. "
~Agnes Sligh Turnbull
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. " ~Robert Benchley
"If you can look at a dog and not feel vicarious excitement and affection, you must be a cat. " ~Author Unknown
“Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.”—Alfred A. Montapert
~ Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss)
"Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. "
~Agnes Sligh Turnbull
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. " ~Robert Benchley
"If you can look at a dog and not feel vicarious excitement and affection, you must be a cat. " ~Author Unknown
“Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.”—Alfred A. Montapert
thoughts for easter
"The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances." ~Robert Flatt
"Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there." ~Clarence W. Hall
"The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice. " ~Henry Knox Sherrill
"The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever."- Phillips Brooks
"Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there." ~Clarence W. Hall
"The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice. " ~Henry Knox Sherrill
"The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever."- Phillips Brooks
thoughts for st. patrick's day
"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who are Irish and those who wish they were!"
"May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you, A moonbeam to charm you, A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you."
"May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks. May your heart be as light as a song. May each day bring you bright, happy hours, That stay with you all the year long."
"May joy and peace surround you. Contentment latch your door. And happiness be with you now and bless you evermore."
"May you live a long life full of gladness and health, with a pocket full of gold as the least of you wealth. May the dreams you hold dearest, be those which come true. May the kindness you spread, keep returning to you."
~Irish Blessings
"May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you, A moonbeam to charm you, A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you."
"May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks. May your heart be as light as a song. May each day bring you bright, happy hours, That stay with you all the year long."
"May joy and peace surround you. Contentment latch your door. And happiness be with you now and bless you evermore."
"May you live a long life full of gladness and health, with a pocket full of gold as the least of you wealth. May the dreams you hold dearest, be those which come true. May the kindness you spread, keep returning to you."
~Irish Blessings
thoughts for the week
2/20/08
The verses below were reportedly written on the wall of Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta, Indiam and are widely attributed to her. They seem to based on a composition originally written by Kent Keith.
"People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
The verses below were reportedly written on the wall of Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta, Indiam and are widely attributed to her. They seem to based on a composition originally written by Kent Keith.
"People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
thoughts for valentine's day
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. "~Author Unknown
"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor. " ~ Mother Teresa
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. " ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love." ~ L.O. Baird
"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor. " ~ Mother Teresa
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. " ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love." ~ L.O. Baird
Thoughts for New Years
"Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment." - Sydney Smith
"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called 'Opportunity' and its first chapter is New Year's Day." - Edith Lovejoy Pierce
"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called 'Opportunity' and its first chapter is New Year's Day." - Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Thoughts for Christmas
"Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans
"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." ~ Oren Arnold
"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace." ~ Agnes M. Pahro
"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. "~Mary Ellen Chase
"Christmas is forever, not for just one day,for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself" ~Norman Wesley Brooks
"Roses are reddish. Violets are bluish. If it weren't for Christmas. We'd all be Jewish."~Benny Hill
"May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace.The gladness of Christmas give you hope. The warmth of Christmas grant you love."~Author Unknown
"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." ~ Oren Arnold
"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace." ~ Agnes M. Pahro
"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. "~Mary Ellen Chase
"Christmas is forever, not for just one day,for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself" ~Norman Wesley Brooks
"Roses are reddish. Violets are bluish. If it weren't for Christmas. We'd all be Jewish."~Benny Hill
"May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace.The gladness of Christmas give you hope. The warmth of Christmas grant you love."~Author Unknown
Thoughts for Thanksgiving
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live." ~Jackie Windspear
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward
"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. " ~W.T. Purkiser
"How wonderful it would be if we could help our children to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people. " -- Sir John Templeton
"Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live." ~Jackie Windspear
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward
"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. " ~W.T. Purkiser
"How wonderful it would be if we could help our children to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people. " -- Sir John Templeton
Thoughts for the Week
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France
"The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
"The dog represents all that is best in man." ~ Etienne Charlet"
Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one" ~ Anonymous
"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans" ~ James Herriot
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~ Roger Caras
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanual Kant
"The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
"The dog represents all that is best in man." ~ Etienne Charlet"
Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one" ~ Anonymous
"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans" ~ James Herriot
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~ Roger Caras
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanual Kant
Thoughts for Father's Day
"Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life." ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"The child had every toy his father wanted."- Robert C. Whitten
"There are 3 stages in a man's life: he believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, and he is Santa Claus."
- Unknown
"A father carries pictures where his money used to be."
- Unknown
Thoughts for Mother's Day
"Of all the rights of women,the greatest is to be a mother." - Lin Yutang
Mothers of little boys work from son up till son down - Unknown
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
Finally Up and Running (my blog, not me)
Welcome to my blog! It took 6 months for my mommy to get it together, but we're finally up and running. Until I learn to type (have already mastered chewing & banging on the keyboard), I have added Webmaster to my mommy's list of duties... so we'll see how she does... Aunt Jacqui has set the standards pretty high!
In order to get everyone up to speed, we've included a plethora of pictures, starting from my first moments to my 6 month birthday. From here on out, you can count on my blog for regular updates (both photos and thoughts), and for a thought provoking, socially responsible, and just plain cute site. Enjoy!
(Most recent pics are at the top, scroll down to the bottom to start from birth.)
Thought for the Week
4/3/07
"Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." -- Hebrews 11:1
Thought for the Week
3/29/07
"A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying, 'Boy that was fun!'''-- Jack Miller
Thought for the Week
3/19/07 "What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible." -- Theodore Roethke
Thought for the Week
3/12/07
May you live a long life
full of gladness and health,
with a pocket full of gold
as the least of you wealth.
May the dreams you hold dearest,
be those which come true, and
the kindness you spread,
keep returning to you.
-- Irish Blessing
Thought for the Week
3/5/07
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr. Seuss
Thought for the Week
2/19/07
""Write it on your heart that everyday is the best day of the year." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Family
Baby Stuff
My Favorite Books
- Skippyjon Jones
- Duck at the Door
- The Gift of Nothing
- Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type
- If I Had A Dragon - Si Yo Tuvuiera un Dragon
- Bark, George!