I was blog hopping this morning and came across this quote by Margorie Pay Hinckley on my friend Lora's blog. Lora, I have to say, is one of the most inspiring people I know so I wasn't surprised to find it there. I loved this quote and it really hit home for me so I'm stealing it to put on my blog. I want to remember it and try to apply it in my quest as a mother, wife, sister, friend, etc... I've read some of Sister Hinckley's books and just love the example she was to all of us. What a wonderful Christlike person she was. I will always remember her and President Hinckley and their dedication to the Lord's work."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 Hinckley
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Jen, That is also the kind of wife, mother, and grandma I want to be. Thanks for sharing.
Hello Winterton's... hope you don't mind us stalking you. :) We just joined this new world of blogging and I am having so much fun finding friends. Your family is beautiful. I didn't even know about #4... she is gorgeous. Hopefully this will help us keep in touch better. Love you, Amy
Jen and Stoney, HI! This is the Homer's from Lake Powell, how are you? I saw your blog from the Hawkes' and had to say hi.
Tana
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