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Saturday, April 19, 2008

"It's amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

Harry S. Truman

1884-1972

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

Booker T. Washington

1856-1915

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidences."

George Washington

1732-1799

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

San Juan Capistrano Mission

If you follow the link above it will take you to the Wikipedia Page on San Juan Capistrano and the history of the mission. You will also find the story of how the swallows return to Capistrano every year on St. Joseph's Day, March 19. I hope you enjoy. Please leave any comments you'd like. If you like you can also follow the other links on the site to read as much as you like about the mission.

These are pictures of the grounds and the inside of a chapel. I wonder how many people visit each year?

This first statue is of Father Junipero Serra, the second shows Christ on the way to his crucifixion.

These are more pictures. The area appears to be beautiful. Maybe some day I will visit, hopefully on March 19th.

San Juan Capistrano

Victoria recently posted on her blog pictures of birds nesting on her house in Lemoore, California. One of Christopher's friends said he thought they were swallows. This reminded me of San Juan Capistrano, so I went looking on the Internet for information. Here are some pictures of the Mission at San Juan Capistrano.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Springtime in the Low Country--One For Christopher Mullikin

More pictures of Spring. Of course, I have to include an otter. Aren't they just the cutest little things??? Chris, Make sure you look at the very bottom left side of the page so you can see what it's like in Goose Creek!!!

Even more for Christopher....

And of course, what would spring and the Low Country be without the Cooper River Bridge Run. Once again, the Kenyon's won, both men's and women's. They are some of the most graceful runners I have ever seen. It is a tradition to have the Cooper River Bridge Run, and even more of one to have the Kenyon's win. This year we had record setting attendance--who would have ever thought....

More for Christopher

Sunsets on Folley, Azalea's, Dogwoods, NO SNOW, SAil Boats, warm weather, NO SNOW...

.....And This one is for Christopher

These are just some pictures of the Charleston area in Spring. Charlestons really is a beautiful place in the spring--all the flowers and the trees starting to bud....

Monday, April 7, 2008

Victoria! This one's for you!!!!!!!

Mike and I were off today and so we decided to do something for our daughter, Victoria. She wrote to me the other day and said she was wishing she could have a hamburger from 5 Guys Burger and Fries. She went online to find one near her, but sadly to say, there were no stores in her area. But, she was surprised to see we now have them in Charleston. Yes, we are coming up in the world. So, Victoria, here you are. Hope you enjoy. We sure did!!

Favorite Quotes

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.

--Winston Churchhill--

May you live all the days of your life.

--Jonathan Swift--

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

--Martin Luther King--

Our talents are the gifts God gives to us...what we make of our talents is our gift to God

--Leo Buscaglia--

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

--Henry David Thoreau--

People know you for what you've done, not what you plan to do.

--Unknown--

Please all and you will please none.

--Aesop--

Presence is more than just being there.

--Malcolm S. Forbes--

Pretty much all the truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes--

Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

--Zen Saying--

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

--Unknown--

Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.

--Jane Rubritta--

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

--Stephen Conley--

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

--Booker T. Washington--

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

--Don Marques--

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

--Unknown--

We never know the love of a parent till we become a parent ourselves.

--Harriet Ward Beecher--

If I had my child to raise over again

I'd build self esteem and the house later

I'd fingerpaint more and point the finger less

I would do less correcting and more connecting

I'd take my eyes off my watch and watch with my eyes

I would care to know less and know to care more

I'd take more hikes and fly more kites

I'd stop playing serious and seriously play

I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars

I'd do more hugging and less tugging

I'd see the oak tree in the acorn more often

I'd be firm less often and affirm much more

I'd model less about the love of power

And more about the power of love

--Diane Loumans--

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

--Chinese Proverb--

They fuck you up, your mum and dad

They may not mean to but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had

And add some extra, just for you.

--Phillip Larken--

Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there, and you want them to approve of your life, stlil you only call when you're in a crisis, or you need something.

--Chuck Palahnuik--

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

--Peter Ustinov--

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

--Amy Vanderbilt--

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand you will see your parents and all the generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive at this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the combination of each of these people.

--Thich Nhat Hanh--

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and tears; they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.

--Francis Bacon--

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent,

--Bette Davis--

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child, when a parent dies, the past dies.

--Red Auerbach--

Sometimes you must love your children enough to let them hate you for a while.

--Carol Burnette--

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

--Ogden Nash--

A truely rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

--Unknown--

Blessed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

--Lydia M. Child--

The greatest gift I ever had

Came from God--I call him Dad.

--Unknown--

Old as she was she still missed her Daddy sometimes.

--Gloria Nalor--

The heart of a mother is a deep abyess at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

--Honore de Balzar--

My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.

--Greycie Harmon--

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

--Toni Morrison--

I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across she stretched herself long enough for me to run across safely.

--Renata Weems--

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

--The Golden Girls--

All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

--Abraham Lincoln--

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

--Irish Proverb--

Someday you'll cry for me

The way I've cried for you.

Someday you'll miss me

The way I've missed you.

Someday you'll need me

The way I need you.

Someday you'll love me

But I won't love you.

--Unknown--