Handi-Kappy Family

Favorite Quote

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.

I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.

I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.

I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.

I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.

I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

-Marjorie Pay Hinkley

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Trooper...

Maddie seriously is a wilderness girl. She BEGS all day long to go outside. Her way of asking is, "side, side, side?" Usually she will bring some of her shoes to me and won't leave me alone until she has at least stepped foot out the door. Her favorite thing to do is gather sticks for the wood cellar. The other day, she was so anxious to get out and it was freezing, so we bundled her up and she helped me gather some wood for the fire. If we don't get wood, she will say, "run mom." Then she proceeds to laps around the house on the wrap around deck and seriously doesn't stop until she has done at least 6 and is panting.

She is the cutest wood gatherer I have ever seen. I'm training her good so she can go out at get wood when it is minus 50 outside while I sit by the fire and sip cocoa!