Favorite Quote

Some of you might have read this quote before but I'd like to share it on my blog today because it has been on my mind lately:

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 a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors 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.

-Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Being a mom was a choice I made.  I worked hard to have my baby.  We only get to live our lives once and I want to live it doing what I love most.  I know lots of people thought that I was crazy to get married when I was so young but I once heard a professor counsel his students to find their dreams early in life because the earlier you find your dream the sooner you will get there.  I knew what my dream was; I just needed to start living it.  And so I did.  We made lots of sacrifices to start a family while we are both so young.  Jake doesn't drive a BMW and I don't carry a Louis Vuitton, but what we have in our arms is so much more.  I'm living my dream and I wouldn't exchange it for anything this world has to offer me.