I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.