from my heart to yours

Sam and Eli (about 2 days old)

I believe in the power of Mother's.
They have great influence in the world.

I love the quote by E.T Sullivan:

"When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. 
He doesn't stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. 
Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home and of some obscure mother. 
And then God puts the idea into the mother's heart, and she puts it into the baby's mind. 

And then God waits."

The ideas, the values, the impressions mother's stamp on their children will stay with them and influence the choices they make, the families they raise in the future and the self esteem they develop.

What power we have and what great responsibility we hold.

Being a mother sure has it challenges and trials.
It is the hardest work I have ever done.
It is also the most exhausting work I have ever done.

I try to take my role of a mother seriously and am constantly looking for inspiration and ideas.
I try to choose wisely the 'ideas and impressions' that I plant into the minds of my children.

Just like God, as I go about this important work within the walls of my home, I wait.
To see what my little people will turn out to be like, what great things they will go on to achieve and who they will become.

How wonderful and blessed I am to have this opportunity to raise seven cherubs.
They bring joy to my heart as I see them progress and grow.
I am so glad they are happy to be with an obscure mother like me and live in our simple home.