The Road to Becoming a Forever Family

I just love this picture of JK and Kenners. DK snapped it two weeks ago (I can't believe how GREEN everything has turned since then!!)

Excerpt from Elder M. Russell Ballard's Daughter's of God talk:

"Author Anna Quindlen reminds us not to rush past the fleeting moments. She said: 'The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less'(Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11)."

I started blogging for many reasons, one of them being just that: trying to remember the day-in and day-out parts of life. The seemingly inconsequential tid-bits that tie together the sections of our life. I want to remember the time when the children decided to eat spaghetti like little puppy dogs or the times when JK climbed into the bunny cage. Then there are the times when Kenners blows me away with her spelling ability! And of course I can't forget about the time I thought I had thrown away my driver's license. So many little things, so easily forgotten.