Quotes of the Week

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again." 

 -- Quaker Proverb 

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." 

 -- Nido Qubein 

"The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life." 

-- Brian Tracy 

"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another." 

 -- Marquis de Condorcet 

Sarah's Surprise!

It is always startling to receive a phone call in the middle of the night. I received just such a call around 1:50 a.m. yesterday.

As I groggily answered the phone and tried to sound alert, I was surprised to hear my daughter's voice on the phone. It was the pregnant daughter. The one whose voice I expected to hear in the middle of the night the first week of March--not the last week of January.

Her explanation for the phone call: her water had broken and she needed me to report for babysitting duty at her house ASAP. She had been very anxious thinking about how fast she might deliver this child since Carson's was a quick labor and delivery.

I drove the 30 minutes to her home and got set up on the couch to try and sleep the rest of what was left of what was going to be a very short night for me and what turned out to be a very long night and morning for Sarah and Jeff.

It was 12 hours later when Lincoln Blair Excell made his entrance into the world.

At 5 weeks early, he weighed 5 lbs. 7 ozs. He is in NICU being monitored and getting a little help with his breathing. He needs to figure out how to eat before he can go home. And he needs to be able to maintain his body temperature.

Sarah is doing well. Jeff is going back and forth taking care of baby boy #3 at the hospital and helping me take care of boys #1 and #2 here at our house.

Enjoy your rest while you can, Sarah, because the peaceful moments will probably be few and far between when all three sons are residing in the same household.

Congratulations to Jeff and Sarah on the beautiful addition to their family. What a sweet surprise!!

Quotes of the Week

"If we counted our blessings instead of our money, we would all be rich." 

 -- Linda Poindexter 

 

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, or you can live as if everything is a miracle." 

 -- Albert Einstein 

"The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up." 

 -- Robert Tew 

"What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality." 

 -- Daniel Webster 

Quotes of the Week

"The best way out is always through." 

 -- Robert Frost 

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one." 

 -- Mark Twain 

"Because sometimes you have to step outside of the person you've been, and remember the person you were meant to be, the person you wanted to be, the person you are." 

-- H.G. Wells 

"Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love." 

 -- Miguel Angel Ruiz