Day 243

Gunnar is my 3rd child to have Mrs. Hazel as a first grade teacher.

Whose Child is This?
Whose child is this? I asked one day

Seeing a little one out to play

"Mine", said the parent with a tender smile

"Mine to keep a little while

To wash his hands and comb his hair

To tell him what he is to wear

To prepare him that he may always be good

And each day do the things he should"

"Whose child is this?"

I asked again

As the door opened and someone came in

"Mine", said the teacher with the same tender smile

"Mine, to keep just a little while

To teach him how to be gentle and kind

To train and direct his dear little mind

To help him live by every rule

And get the best he can from school."

"Whose child is this?"

I ask once more

Just as the little one entered the door

"Ours" said the parent and the teacher as they smiled

And each took a hand of the little child

"Ours to love and train together

Ours this blessed task forever."

~Author Unknown

Day 242

Tacoma


I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

~Sara Teasdale

Day 241

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.



~Robert Fulghum

Day 240

Coby Martineau #34


Trying to maintain order during a legalized gang brawl involving 80 toughs with a little whistle, a hanky and a ton of prayer.

~Anonymous referee, explaining his job

Day 239

Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately.

~Reggie Williams, when asked his greatest strengths as a football player

Day 238

Coby's new P.E. uniform.

"P.E. stinks...literally"

~Coby Martineau

Day 237

"The Bowl" Stadium High School

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

~Jerry Rice

Day 236

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

~Francesca Reigler

Day 235

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"

~William A. Ward

Day 234

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

~Dave Barry

Day 233

Ready for Lady Gaga concert


What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

~Lady Gaga

Day 232

Tony Ventrella spoke at Coby's Pep Rally

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

~Knute Rockne

Day 231

Happy 15 Year Anniversary John!

When I woke up this morning I walked into the kitchen I found this drawing that Gunnar did for us...
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

~James C. Dobson

Day 230

Bennett and Gunn


Pirate Lingo

Ahoy! - "Yo!"
Avast! - "Check it out!"
Aye! - "Yes."
Arrr! - "That's right!" (often confused with arrrgh...)
Arrrgh! - "I'm VERY miffed."

Day 229

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

~Somerset Maugham

Day 228

High School Orientation


The boy grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a teenager. He had strange friends and wore strange clothes and he listened to strange music.

But at night time, when that teenager was asleep, the mother opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the of the bed. If he was really asleep she picked up that great big boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

While she rocked him she sang:
I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

~Robert Munsch, Love You Forever

Day 227

Mommy Tears
Mommy tears started long ago,

when your Dad proposed to me,

when I said yes they were happy tears when he knelt on bended knee.

Mommy tears came once again on the day that you were born,

these tears were mixed with Daddy's love on that unforgetful morn.

Mommy tears were shed once more when you spoke your very first word,

I thought that day would never come,

for Mama I swore I heard.

There were times when you got sick and your fever came on fast,

my tears of worry started to fall wondering how long this would last.

It wasn't long and you started school,

I kept strong as I watched you go,

but when I came into the house Mommy tears had a steady flow.

Soon, I know, there will be a time when you become a man,

for Mommy tears will slowly fall when another holds your hand.

Someday you'll understand these tears when you hold your daughter or son,

but for now I'll keep you to myself as Mommy tears are never done.

~Author Unknown

Day 226

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

~Morris West

Day 225

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

~Chili Davis

Day 224

Luke and Gunnar-Water balloon fight

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

~Mark Twain

Day 223

Building in Tacoma


Whatever good things we build end up building us.

~Jim Rohn

Day 222

Pillows


A zebra does not change its spots.

~Al Gore

Day 221

Ice-cream mustashe

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

~Charles Schulz

Day 220

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

~Larry Bird

Day 219

3-on-3 tournament


Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

~Michael Jordan

Day 218

Gunnar's Spongebob artwork


Squidward: 'Spongebob, I actually DO like you!'
Spongebob: 'Squidward, I used your clarinet to unclog my toilet!'

Day 217

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

~Giacomo Leopardi

Day 216

Stadium High School



As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building.

~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Day 215

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

~Arnold Schwarzenegger

Day 214

...5, 4, 3, 2, 1...BLAST OFF!


Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

~Douglas MacArthur

Day 213

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

~Michael Leunig