~~ “Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember!" ~~: November 2008

Thirteen Things about Diana M

1. We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

2. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

3. Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ~Fran Lebowitz

4. You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

5. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ~Author Unknown

7. A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. ~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945

9. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller

10. The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth

11. There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ~Frank A. Clark

12. There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child, There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff

13. "Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them." Richard L. Evans

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