Happy 2011

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.

~Henry Moore

Glory to God in highest heaven,

Who unto man His Son hath given;

While angels sing with tender mirth,

A glad new year to all the earth.

~Martin Luther

Merry CHRISTMAS

Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Luke 1:35
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy–the Son of God.

Luke 2:9-12

And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. (10) And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy that will be for all the people. (11) For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

(12) And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
Luke 2:13-14And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

(14) “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!” “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

Modern Family

What you call yourselves and how people refer to you as a family greatly impacts your children, who are constantly trying to figure out where and how they fit into your modern family.”

~Kela Price



Although stepfamilies rarely make as smooth transition as the Bradys, it is possible to successfully blend a family. It depends on how and when you start and what you put in the blender.”
~Kela Price








Life is too short not to live in peace.” ~Diane Greene
Put your own happiness, your own mental health and your marriage or partnership first and without guilt.” ~Wednesday Martin, author of Stepmonster



“I do not like the title of counselor. I’d much rather be viewed as a friend who is willing to be an open book regarding her journey so that you can learn while on yours.”

~Kela Price

“Blended families don’t fail, remarriages do.” ~Kela Price Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.” ~Diane Greene

Be Blessed!

Family

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes.Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.-- Jim Rohn

I'm busier than a one-toothed man in a corn-on-the-cob eating contest.


Plan to be spontaneous .......... tomorrow.




To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. -- Barbara Bush





A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

-- Ogden Nash
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.-- John Bowring


Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.-- Milton R. Saperstein Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family:

Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.--

Jane Howard

Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts. -- Author Unknown

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

-- Evan Esar

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.

-- Gail Lumet Buckley

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters.

It is tied to places and events and histories.

With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality.

It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

-- Thomas Moore

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.-- Anthony Brandt

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.-- Auguste Napier

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

-- Joyce Brothers

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

- Evan Esar