05 March 2011

Hey all you wonderful mommies...

This is a favorite quote of mine, do you know who said it? "I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." Do you know who it is? Tune in tomorrow for the author of that quote.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm thinking sister Hinckley....

Shannon said...

It was Marjorie Pay Hinckley. I love that quote too!