Nie Nie

I have been reading these the last few days and felt a bit depressed because she does it all, and I don't even do a little, in my mind. But why not just do those little things for your husband or kids, just because. I think sometimes as a wife and a mom we are trying so hard to be the best and make things perfect that we miss the big picture and those moments that make being a wife and a mother so great!! She includes this in one of her post, which I also remember from his talk that is wonderful.

Elder M. Russell Ballard quoted her in a conference talk

"Author Anna Quindlen reminds us not to rush past the fleeting moments. She said: “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.”