The Lucy Mack Smith Quote

Here's the Lucy Mack Smith quote at the frame home which had such a profound effect on us this morning as we came out of the Grove.  This is for any of you who have to leave home for a little while ....Carlee and Cade especially except that you're not in your "old age!"  And for Taylor who really is moving away from home (for real TJ!!  Living at Grandpa's and Grandma's is NOT living away from home!) and for Zac who will soon go and for Jordon who gets to start a new home (at Grandpa and Grandma's house hah!) and for Connor and Cameron and J and Aaron who will be missionaries before we know it and then Billie and Emma and Mason and Hannah and before we know it, Grandpa and Grandma will be 80 and that will be awful!!!! 

P.S.  Big kids (as in our kids) make sure the little kids (as in Jordon on down) read this!!  And anybody else else who may on some remote chance read this and think you may wonder if you should serve a mission !)  Hugs!!!!! 


"See what a comfortable home we have had here and what pains every child that we have has taken to provide for us everything necessary to make our old age comfortable, and long life desirable....I now give this up for the sake of Christ and salvation and I pray God to help me to do so without one murmur or a tear....I will not cast one longing look upon anything which I leave behind me." -- Lucy Mack Smith