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On The Nightstand

  • The Everything Parent's Guide to Positive Discipline - Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D.
  • The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
  • Julie & Julia - Julie Powell
  • Handmade Home - Amanda Soule
  • Still Alice - Lisa Genova
  • The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (again)
  • Amarcord - Marcella Hazan

... remember

  • When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would have not a single bit of talent left and could say, “I used everything you gave me.” ~ Erma Bombeck
  • The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ unknown
  • The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. ~ Elaine Heffner
  • When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. ~ Helen Keller
  • 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

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