Mrs. Peabody's School for the Extremely Clever

Happy Mother's Day To everyone who has ever loved unconditionally.

Gram Shrive

A mother serves her sugar with
A bit of peppermint
To clarify the passages
That carry what she meant

When she first set to bear a soul
Quite separate from her own,
Whom she would cherish, yet must teach
To live and die alone.

Mommy, Mom, Janet

Thanks Mom!

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. ~Author Unknown

Here are all your children in one place,
Enshrined behind some glass within a frame.
A picture's like a word, a sign, a name,
Symbolic of a much more complex grace.
Years of memories lie behind each face,
A wild sea no blessing can contain;
Years and years of love, of joy, of pain,
Of mysteries no heart can hope to trace.
Here are all the objects of your love,
A frozen section cut away from Time,
A summit between dreams and memories,
Which you need only look this way to climb;
An icon for domestic reveries
Through which a thousand answered prayers move.

Mom Lister, Gloria

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

MomM, Jean

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. by: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Mason and Mommy Melissa

They grow SOOOO fast!

Melissa with her mom. I do not have one of Skip with his mom.

MomC, MomL, Aunt Jenny, and ALL-the day I took the Cairo contract.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
by: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author

That best academy, a mother's knee.
by: James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
by: Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

Becky & boys after Andy plowed some branches with his face while riding a snowmobile.

John with me at Gram's on Mother's Day.

Bethany & Kim [Bethany is due soon.]

Kelly was not home so she is not in the photo. They are all living in southeastern PA now. Kim is Jean's oldest daughter. Kathie and Leslie are Jean's other two daughters--I have to get better pics for them.

Charlene (now in Hong Kong) & Evelyn (Moving from Alaska to Pakistan) when we were all together in Cairo. Chalene has another daughter in upper Michigan that I have never met in person (Emily).

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
by: Florida Scott-Maxwell

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family

A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Author Unknown

Diana with Tanner & Keenan on March 27th.

Jackie's family in central PA. She & Jim have a Son Mike in upper left, & daughter Suzy to his left. Mike and Sheila have 1 daughter and 2 sons. Suzy and Mike(husband) have 2 sons.

Give your Mom a break every once in a while!

Janell between daughters Brittnee and Jaylee.