(From the internet)

"My 3-year-old insisted on helping me put all the laundry away. It's only taken 6 hours and apparently pants go in the fridge now."

When my daughter was three she "helped" me by putting on all of her own clothes--until she was immobile and grunting on the floor, encased in so many of her clothes that she could only roll gently from side to side. So cute!

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"The only negative was a nasty rumor. Surely she couldn't go for women. She was too perfect, too exquisite, too appealing to the opposite sex. She was destined to be a trophy wife!"

Gee. Isn't that every little girl's dream? 

"The time between slipping on the ice and hitting the sidewalk is profoundly relative."

Time + space + ice = big owie.

"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."

--J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"All wars are stupid and foolish, expensive and ridiculous follies. When will people learn to settle their differences by arbitration? They would be better off solving their problems with the roll of the dice than by fighting and destroying each other. There never was a good war or a bad peace."

--Benjamin Franklin (paraphrased and updated slightly for clarification) To be fair, BF knew that, sometimes, wars had to be fought; he regretted the necessity.

"There must be no pulling different ways. We must all hang together."

--John Hancock

"Yes, we must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately."

--Benjamin Franklin

At the official signing of the Declaration of Independence

"Dear Marilyn,

Is there a word for a person who does not accept facts that challenge his or her beliefs?

Yes, and it's "normal." The great majority of people share this trait. The more these beliefs define your life, the more you will spin everything your way. To become a thinker instead of a believer, a fundamental step is to disassociate yourself from any political party."

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

--Song of Solomon

All you need is faith....

From the internet:

"My four-year-old has been carrying a small notebook around all day. She opens it, writes small scribbles, and quickly closes it. She's calling it her 'secret diarrhea' and maybe someday I'll correct her, but definitely not today."

You rock, mom!

For the New Year: "We will open a book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and the first chapter is New Year's Day."

--Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Happy New Year, my friends!

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