The Mandell's

Ryan - Ali - Georgia & Kathryn

3/11/12

FAMILY!!

This pic was taken at Blake and Jami's house a few days after Thanksgiving 2011! We can't wait for them to be holding their own baby GIRL in our next Thanksgiving family photo! Yea...a niece in mid August!!!!

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A Parent's Prayer

Dear God,
I don't necessarily want my children to be rich or famous, but I desperately want them to love You. Help us today to tell them about You.

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An alarm clock is a device for awakening people who don't have small children.

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A baby is born with the need to be loved and never outgrows it.

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Remember...
If you "honor your father and your mother" your children are more likely to also.

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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It’s not what you leave to your children, it’s what you leave in your children.

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A mother never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

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A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bank accounts smaller, homes happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.

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Remember...
some of the best things you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

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Oh God, help us to remember what is important today - that nothing matters more than this precious child you have given us.

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A mother understands what a child does not say.

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Children and flowers both blossom when showered with love.

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A baby - the most powerful of powerless creatures.

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We have been given a great treasure in the form of our children; let us attend to them with great care.

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Babies are like sponges. They absorb all your strength and leave you limp. But give them a squeeze and you get it all back.

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A baby is a masterpiece painted above and framed when a family surrounds it with love.

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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

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A child reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

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Remember...
the best thing to spend on your child is your time.

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Making the decision to have a child is momentous - it is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

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There is a miracle in every new beginning.

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Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

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You are blessed my child because you have known God's word from your childhood.
2 Timothy 3:15

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A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

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More babies are spoiled because the mom won't spank Grandma.

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Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

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Our children are living messages we send to a time and place we will not see.

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Children are a gift from the Lord.
Psalm 127:3

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Remember...
nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

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There are 152 distinctly different ways of holding a baby - and all are right.

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Babies are such a nice way to start people.

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It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.

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God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection.

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The less we look with our eyes, the more we will see with our hearts.

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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

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If you want your child to walk the righteous path, do not merely point the way – lead the way.

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Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep.

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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

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If I had my child to raise all over again, I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later. I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less. I would do less correcting and more connecting. I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes. I'd take more hikes and fly more kites. I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play. I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars. I'd do more hugging and less tugging.--
Diane Loomans, from "If I Had My Child To Raise Over Again"

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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

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You will always be your child's favorite toy.

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The problem with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are usually unemployed.

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Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

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Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~William Feather

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Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.
~Mignon McLaughlin

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Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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*When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you hang up my first painting on the refrigerator, and I wanted to paint another one.
*When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you feed a stray cat, and I thought it was good to be kind to animals.
*When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you make my favorite cake for me, and I knew that little things are special things.
*When you thought I wasn't looking, I heard you say a prayer, and I believed there is a God I could always talk to.
*When you thought I wasn't looking, I felt you kiss me goodnight, and I felt loved.
*When you thought I wasn't looking, I LOOKED....and wanted to say thanks for all the things I saw when you thought I wasn't looking.

-Connie Back

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Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really introuble.

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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

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