The van Ormer View: Little Joys

Friday, December 19, 2008

Little Joys

William has been enjoying the heater vent. :-) He likes to sit right on it.

I have been enjoying doing a little doodling lately, I just scribble on little index cards. It is relaxing, sort of. :-) The pictures are a little distorted in the camera/computer transfer.

Now I get to enjoy the kids! School is out!!!! The kids are MINE!!!! Hooray!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: You guys are all so beautiful! And I love that Christ picture if I had it it would be framed and hanging in my room! Katielady; 12:23 PM
Katie The Lady said...: Did you ever stand over the floor vents in your Sunday dresses as a child, seeing how high the air could blow your dress up? I used to love to do that! I think floor vents are children magnets!! Great drawings! Art always seems to relax me when nothing else can.; 7:06 PM
Shannon said...: I love sitting on the heater vent, too!; 6:56 PM

Who am I?

I am a wife and a mother, my two favorite and most distinguished titles. I have four lovely children who keep me from being vain and selfish. I spent most of my life living in Anchorage, Alaska -- where I found my love, Charles. I enjoy a great many things, and I am good at a few things. I love to sing, run, have deep conversations, bake, do family history, blog, be with family, be with friends, have quiet time (whatever that is?), teach, rearrange furniture, watch movies, go for Sunday walks, attend the temple, observe people (Yes, I am watching YOU!), and I enjoy pondering the mysteries of the World. I love living on this beautiful Earth that God has created. I know who I am and I am grateful to know it. I am a child of God -- and so are you!

Mothers

God bless you, dear friends. Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days. I hope that when that occurs you will not be led to exclaim as did King Lear, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” (King Lear, I, iv, 312). Rather, I hope that you will have every reason to be proud concerning your children, to have love for them, to have faith in them, to see them grow in righteousness and virtue before the Lord, to see them become useful and productive members of society. If with all you have done there is an occasional failure, you can still say, “At least I did the very best of which I was capable. I tried as hard as I knew how. I let nothing stand in the way of my role as a mother.” Failures will be few under such circumstances.

-Gordon B. Hinckley