Archive for Month: March, 2011
Weekly Winners {The Business of Hope Edition}
“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”—Marian Zimmer Bradley
Michael
The firstborn. The old soul. The one we call “Mikey”. The physical comedian. The pop-and-lock’er. The army guy. The gamer. The intellect. The one who never wanted to play with playdough or paint. The almost-teenager. That’s Mikey.
“Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.”
—Author Unknown
Benjamin
The one born in the second millennium. The one with the long eyelashes that will make all the girls week someday. The prince of imagination. The double jointed. The sensitive soul. The first family’s baby. The baby turned big brother. The brown eyed boy. The “Imaginary Creature”. The toy master. The computer lover. The genius. That’s Benjamin.
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
—Franklin P. Jones
Olivia
The only girl in our brood. The big spender. The dog lover. The wolf quest-er. The singer, the songwriter, the music-lover. The sassy. The snippy. The moody. The creative. The tree-climber. The one with two left feet. The talented writer with the pen always tightly in her grasp. That’s Olivia.
“The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.”
—Wynonna Judd
David
The baby of our family. The sweetest surprise there could ever be. The whiner. The fart-hating-nose-picker. The one who loves letters, the trampoline, and parks of any variety. The boy with the sweetest smile. The one who can melt the coldest of cold-cold hearts. That’s David.
“Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”
—Rosaleen Dickson
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