Chronicles of The Slade Family: December 2013

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Sadie wanted to take a selfie with me -

She has a little trouble keeping her thumb out of the way, but she's a lot better at taking pictures than I was when I was three!

Thanksgiving and Christmas Decorating

We made Thanksgiving easy this year and just got paper plates, etc. The girls helped me so much and it was actually not a lot of work. It was the worst Thanksgiving ever because I found out my mother died Wednesday and had to be resuscitated! But it was the best news I've ever gotten that my mother was able to be resuscitated, so it was the best Thanksgiving ever! Miracles exist. Praise God from Whom all blessings flow. It's been hard not to be there, but she is doing so much better now, and I plan to go and stay with her in January.

Inspiration

"Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst."
-Marjorie Pay Hinckley
"Reputation, false or true, is merely what people think of you. Character, look up and see, is what you know yourself to be."
-Judge Edward Enslen
"Pretty is as pretty does."
"K.T.C."
-John E. Enslen
"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one."
-Robert E. Lee
"May your neighbors respect you, Trouble neglect you, The angels protect you, And heaven accept you."
-Irish Blessing
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pale in comparison to what lies within you."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes About the South

"Do Southerners laugh at different things than Northerners do? Yes--Northerners."

--Roy Blount

"What can be more Southern than to obsess about being Southern?"

--Elizabeth Fortson Arroyo

"There is as much dignity in plowing a field as in writing a poem."

--Booker T. Washington

"Southerners can claim kin with anybody. It's one of our most dextrous talents."

--Guy Davenport

"I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady."

--Florence King

“For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago..."

--William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust

"True grits, more grits, fish, grits, and collards. Life is good where grits are swallered."

--Roy Blount, Jr.

"In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it."

--Mark Twain

"Southern barbeque is the closet thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines and cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbeque changes."

--John Shelton Reed

Chronicles of The Slade Family

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Monday, December 9, 2013

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Sadie wanted to take a selfie with me -

Thanksgiving and Christmas Decorating

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Mama's Cancer Blog

a new website for my disease

My favorite website about CVID

Sibley's Photo Booth

My Parents Interview on radio.lds.org

Enslen Fine Art and Photography

17 Miracles

friends and family: they may not claim us, but we claim them.

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Inspiration

Quotes About the South

Blog Archive

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