You're so right about joy is spending time with your family. I'm looking forward to this Sunday when my daughters, son-in-law and two grandchildren are coming for dinner. :D
I have some very vintage photos up for my Photo Hunt today! I hope you can get a chance to see and leave your link. http://newyorktraveler.net/photo-hunters-family/
I understand what you said down at the bottom of the post. It's always great to be with our family...even just doing simple things..or doing nothing at all. :-)
Wonderful family you get Marcia, smiling as you do. I really hope that in a few years, when my children will live far away from us that they 'll keep the link between one an other, and us their parents. Hope they will manage to find in each other family love, comfort, and help for ever.
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
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My three sons was one of my all time favorites!
Great post for this week. ;)
You're so right about joy is spending time with your family. I'm looking forward to this Sunday when my daughters, son-in-law and two grandchildren are coming for dinner. :D
Love every single shot, you have a happy family!!
Happy hunting and happy weekend !
I love the one of you at 12 -- brings back some memories -- look at those dresses & hair! OMG!
I've got mine up, too. You know, I had to take it elsewhere...:-)
http://flamingofotos.blogspot.com
Great set of photos. You have three handsome sons Happy weekend
Great family pictures! Thank heavens for cameras!
My entries are posted here and here. Hope you can stop by. Happy weekends!
Lovely series of photos Marcia, happy family occasions. Have a great weekend.
Wow! These are lovely family photographs!
Lovely family you got! Lovely family photo's as well!
Thank you for sharing all these wonderful photos of your family. It's nice to see beautiful faces of the special people in your life.
lovely family photos, marcia. i love the old photos best.
Great shots :)
Simply fantastic. And three very handsome sons. This is great.
Mine is up too.
http://shinade.blogspot.com/2008/10/photohunt-family.html
Happy week end:-)
Oh they are adorable and all shots are pretty. Such a great family.
nice photos :)
Great sequence of family shots.
These are all wonderful shots. What a beautiful family you have.
a nice family u have
Oh wow - how life changes! great pics! :)
great family pictures! those are treasures... =)
Great sequence of lovely family pictures.
Have a great weekend!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful family with us.
Happy Weekend.
Yes, I remember that old TV show, lol!
You have such a lovely family!
I have some very vintage photos up for my Photo Hunt today! I hope you can get a chance to see and leave your link.
http://newyorktraveler.net/photo-hunters-family/
Love your series of family photos :)
I understand what you said down at the bottom of the post. It's always great to be with our family...even just doing simple things..or doing nothing at all. :-)
What a wonderful selection of shots. I love My Three Sons too! Thanks for visiting mine and have a great week.
Wonderful family you get Marcia, smiling as you do.
I really hope that in a few years, when my children will live far away from us that they 'll keep the link between one an other, and us their parents. Hope they will manage to find in each other family love, comfort, and help for ever.
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