One Step Forward, Two Steps Sideways: June 2009

05 June 2009

The closing song at graduation was quite the tear jerker. I am fairly certain that there wasn't a dry eye in the house!

Who Has Already Said it Best?

28 Sep 08
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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14 Sep 08
Personal example carries more weight than preaching.
~Chinese proverb
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7 Sep 08
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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10 Aug08
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
~Gloria Steinem
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10 Jul 08
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
~Bill Dodds
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10 Jul 08
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
~Lyman Abbott
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30 Jun 08
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
~Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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27 Jun 08
A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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22 Jun 08
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
~Erma Bombeck
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14 Jun 08
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like clearing the driveway before it has stopped snowing.
~Anonymous
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8 Jun 08
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
~Japanese Proverb
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3 Jun 08
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.
~ Hodding Carter
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27 May 08
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

What I Wouldn't Have Missed for Anything

Hearing Connlaodh use the words" Up" and "Please", unprompted, when he wanted to be picked up
Hearing Eibhlin refer to meat-eating dinosaurs as "eat-meaters"
Taidhgin jumping in the water- sans floatie- and swimming across the pool by himself- FOR THE FIRST TIME!
Taidhgin informed me of the fact that he is a boy, so he doesn't like baby DOLLS...he likes real babies
Eibhlin carefully writing her name over and over again to make sure that it looks just right
Connlaodh learning to say, "Noooooo puppy" to the dogs when they try to take his food
Connlaodh aping his sister's pirouettes and falling flat on his tush because he made himself so dizzy
Connlaodh making his "muscles" face and pose (GRRRRR)
Eibhlin spelling her name for us today- and getting it right for the first time! 6/3
The look on Connlaodh's face anytime he outsmarts us by doing something he's not supposed to do :-)
Eibhlin's "Uppies!" when she wanted to be held
Taidhgin saying, "No funny, Daddy"
Taidhgin's pictures with "Mom" written on them (with a heart next to my name, too!)
Connlaodh saying "Mama" for the first time
Eibhlin so carefully taking care of her "babies" as if it was the most natural thing in the world
Taidhgin crying at the end of Ice Age when the tiger and the baby say good-bye
Connlaodh learning to sneak out of his high chair belt
Eibhlin writing "MOM" for the first time- TODAY!!! 5/27

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