"Are you planning on kidnapping a woman?" --Howard

"Sarcasm?" --Sheldon

"Yes, but mixed with genuine concern." --Howard, The Big Bang Theory

We had our piano pulled out from the wall last week because my dad was painting. While it was out, I had my little brother (Jacob) and the 10-year-old girl I nanny (Claire) vacuum it out one day to clean up the dust. I was working on something else, but heard him say, "So, one of Leah's friends is playing for the wedding and she was over here the other day and played some of the stuff and she said it wasn't even good or ready but it was like... so good. She was like, using both hands way high and way low and all over and all these different notes and it was amazing." --Leah Stegman

Who needs a resume when a 10-year-old says this about you? Not me.

"What kind of person deletes their BIBLE?!" --Chrisara, to Matthew

"You can tell where our priorities are. We have 4 cookie sheets, 17 wooden spoons, a stone casserole dish, a bundt pan...and neither of us have beds." --Me and Christina

"For they have come to throw us out of Your land, which You gave us as an inheritance. O our God, won't you stop them? We are powerless against this mighty army that is about to attack us. We do not know what to do, but we are looking to You for help." --2 Chronicles 20:11-12

"With God, all statistics go out the window." --Kenzie

"It may seem like the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget about the guy who forgot about you." --'The Notebook'

"He loved, yet lingered. We are so quick to think that delayed answer to prayer means that the prayer is not going to be answered. Dr. Stuart Holden has said truly: "Many a time we pray and are prone to interpret God's silence as a denial of our petitions; whereas, in truth, He only defers their fulfillment until such time as we ourselves are ready to cooperate to the full in His purposes." Prayer registered in heaven is prayer dealt with, although the vision still tarries.

God's delay in answering the prayer of our longing heart is the most loving thing God can do. He may be waiting for us to come closer to Him, prostrate ourselves at His feet and abide there in trustful submission, that His granting of the longed-for answer may mean infinitely greater blessing than if we received it anywhere else than in the dust at His feet."

--Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Springs in the Valley

"I hear You say 'My love is over,
it's underneath, it's inside, it's in between
the times you doubt Me, when you can't feel
the times that you've questioned 'Is this for real?'
the times you've broken, the times that you mend
the times you hate Me and the times that you bend
these times you're healing
and when your heart breaks
the times that you feel like you've fallen from grace
the times you're hurting
the times that you heal
the times you go hungry and are tempted to steal
in times of confusion and chaos and pain
  I'm there in your sorrow under the weight of your shame
  I'm there through your heartache
  I'm there in the storm
My love I will keep you by My power alone
  I don't care where you've fallen, where you have been
I'll never forsake you
My love never ends, it never ends.' " 

--Tenth Avenue North, 'Times'

"I need You to carry me when I am weak." --Jenny and Tyler, 'Faint Not'

One of my favorite websites is weheartit.com, and most (if not all) of the pictures I use on here are from there. 'Carpe Diem' means 'Seize the Day'.

I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.  ~Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952

Parents: "Okay, I need a 3 syllable word that means 'sign'." "Oh I know! 'Harbinger'."

Me: "You people--seriously? I can make up words too..."

Welcome to vacation time with my family--this is what we do for FUN.

[holding up the movie 'The Ten Commandments']

"Oh yeah, I thought for years that this movie was really how it happened, and then I read the Bible." --Chrisara