A Mixed Up Momma: mother's day

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

~Jeremiah 29:11

"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any other honorable profession in the world, and one that demanded the best that I could bring it."

~Rose Kennedy

"We can do no great things - only small things with great love."

~Mother Teresa

"A baby enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years you can hardly stand it - then departs leaving the house so silent you think you'll go mad."

~Dr. J. A. Holmes

Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it.

~Not Your Average Dictionary

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. "

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A child is a curly dimpled lunatic."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What is a home without children? Quiet."

~Henny Youngman

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

~Phyllis Diller

"The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old."

~Joan Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."

~Franklin P. Jones

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