Words to live by...

I follow a blog called 32 Sycamore here is the link http://granvillehouse.blogspot.com/

today I read an entry that I loved so much that I'll share it...

words to live by Wednesday...
No, it's not a new feature, but it sounds good~maybe it will be, or should be. I was going to share a cool trick for bedsheets for WFMW, but these words from Anna Quindlen touched me deeply and are on my mind this week.Maybe because it's summer.Maybe because I have kids the exact ages she speaks of.Maybe because I'm a big "get it done-er. "Thanks for letting me share:

“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”

(Anna Quindlen, Loud and Clear [2004])
Thank you Ms. Quindlen.