It Takes A Village: The house that Daddy Built

Monday, June 8, 2009

The house that Daddy Built

This is the house that mom and dad built (twice)..... It would have been nice to still have it but hopefully it gets all the love it needs now.... I loved this house... Someday we will have one like it... Maybe when the kids move out.. LOL..

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. Smiley Blanton

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell

"Happiness is in the comfortable companionship of friends" Pam Brown

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by Surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us" Ashley Montagu

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." Louisa May Alcott

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” Henry David Thoreau

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children
feel for us.
Bruno Bettelheim

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
William Arthur Ward

“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.”
Jim Stovall

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
~Japanese Proverb

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
— Albert Schweitzer

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
— Eric Hoffer

Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.
--Grace Lichtenstein American Writer & Editor

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.
Woody Allen

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
Ian Anderson