Quotes: "I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started." - Bartrand Hubbard "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. " -Charles Wadsworth "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."- Sigmund Freud "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. " - Mark Twain "The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get." - Tim Russert " I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." -Mario Cuomo "Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee." - Margaret Courtney "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." - Ruth E. Renkel "To be a successful father . . . there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." - Ernest Hemingway "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." - Gabriel García Márquez "It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare "All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye." - Margaret Atwood "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Anonymous "To her the name of father was another name for love." - Fanny Fern Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers- and fathering is a very important stage in their development." - David M. Gottesman "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." - Anne Sexton "A Man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season." - Anonymous "The greatest gift I ever had Came from God, and I call him Dad!" - Anonymous "A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be." - Anonymous "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." - Clarence Budington Kelland My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." - Harmon Killebrew "One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters." - George Herbert Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." - Bill Cosby "It is not flesh and blood but the heart, which makes us fathers and sons." - Johann Schiller There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself." - John Gregory Brown "My father was a statesman; I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.- Indira Gandhi "You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together." - Erika Cosby "Father, whom I murdered every night but one, That one, when your death murdered me." - Howard Moss "Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys." - Anonymous "To her the name of father was another name for love." - Fanny Fern "If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. " - James Baldwin

I'm in!! School is out as of this coming Tuesday. Summer is open!! TraciL

Well... I have my June cards done. My July 6x6ers done. Can I propose another swap, or will it be too overwhelming? Okay...I am going to try! A Happy Birthday Card w/decorated envelopes. Lets make the due date mid July? Anybody with me.... Can you tell I am in need of some inspiration! xoxoxojenn

Lisa Not a CM consultant but wanted to say congrats on the surgery. I will follow you exactly one month later on July 15. Yours is getting close.Luci

Are there any fellow CM consultants out there? Just signed up in April. Having a blast. My surgery is planned June 15.