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Quotes To Live By

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What quotes do you live by?

Roller Coaster

This evening I had about 15 minuted of down time in my crazy busy day.

The hubby was working late and Baby W was hinting for some cuddle time.

And since cuddle time is my favorite part of every day,

I curled up on the couch to take advantage.

We snuggled as I flipped through the channels.

I saw that one of my all-time favorite movies was on TV,

Parenthood {with Steve Martin}.

I hadn't seen the movie since becoming a parent myself.

Let's just say, I wasn't prepared for the overwhelming emotion I would feel through every single scene of the movie. 

It was like the writers had some how taken every emotion, every fear, every heartbreak, every milestone, every awe-ha moment a parent could ever possibly conceive and they wrapped it up ever-so-perfectly into 120 minutes of laughter and tears.

At one point I looked at Baby W, my eyes filled with tears,
and I felt...

Well, I don't really know the word for what I felt,

so I guess you could say "I had one of those moments".

And in that moment, I took a mental picture,

and placed it in the most cherished section of my memory bank.

FAVORITE QUOTE FROM PARENTHOOD:

{by the crazy old grandma}

"You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster.

Up, down, up, down.

Oh, what a ride!

I always wanted to go again.

You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together!

Some didn't like it.

They went on the merry-go-round.

That just goes around.

Nothing.

I like the roller coaster.

You get more out of it."

-Grandma from PARENTHOOD (The Movie)

Life is like a theme park ride.

Will you chose the roller coaster

or the merry-go-round?
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