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Hurry Up & Wait

We took out a new mortgage on the house and are getting rid of our car payments and some other bills. The check is supposed to come "overnight mail" Monday or Tuesday. It didn't come yesterday and it's not here so far on Wednesday. . Patience has never been one of my greatest virtues but I guess I've got to work on it.

Today's Ten On Tuesday is very timely: 10 Lessons You Want To Teach Your Kids.

I may not be so eloquent with words and so I'm also going to put in some quotes that I think work really well. These are things that I believe and I have often put it to my kids in other ways. I think it helps that someone else other than Mom said them.

1. "Be who you are and say what you feelbecause those who matter won't mind and those who mind don't matter." Dr. Seuss
2. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth will leave the whole world blind and toothless." Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
4. "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." Helen Keller
5. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
6. "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." Ann Landers
7. "Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans." John Lennon
8. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain
9. "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt
10. "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" Henry David Thoreau

What I would like my kids to learn to do: live by the golden rule, be responsible, and be proactive (i.e. the environment and taking care of our earth).