Within it all...

Sometimes, when I take the time to slow down from the everyday household needs, I am amazed at the lovely human beings that we are raising.

I look at how they are becoming compassionate, loving, helpful young people.

They have so much to offer this world. What more can a parent really ask for?

We are so blessed to have so much love in this house.

I am so blessed to have been given this wonderful oportunity to be a mother.

I would have missed out on so much otherwise.


All of the laughs, jokes, fights, teasing, playtime, sad times, love, joy...

I mean, I could go on forever.

If you are a parent you know what I mean.

You really can't remember what it was like before these amazing blessings entered your life.


These days, we are working as a whole at not raising our voices to yell.

We are, naturally, a loud bunch.

You have to be in a large family.

One thing that I never want, however, is to be a yelling bunch.

That is the easy road.

I don't want the easy road.

I want the right and loving road.

I want my children to look back and remember that their parents were loving, caring people who took the time to show them the right way to treat each other... not just tell them.

I want to know that their personalities can shine,

Their imagination can create,

and while this happens they know they can always come to us and find people who will treat them fairly and with compassion.

And within it all there is Love.