It's been a rollercoaster of a week on the mommy front. And on the daughter front as well.

Kiddo is having to be disciplined and all you mommies know being the disciplinarian is never, never fun.

My dad flew to the Middle East yesterday. We probably won't hear from him for a couple of weeks or more. I fell asleep on the couch watching TV since I was having trouble getting to sleep (someone please stop me from eating chocolate so late and taking a nap from 3 – 5 p.m.) and woke up in the middle of the night to CNN saying "a plane has crashed in Iran." Just what you want to hear when your 59 year old dad is in the air somewhere over there.  Of course it wasn't the plane he was on.

So all that to say I have a whole lot to share very soon.  Things I'm so excited to share and of course my photos of the day. One of the things I'm most excited about is my review of A Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns, President of World Vision US.

But for today I thought I'd leave you with some of my favorite quotes from Albert Einstein. 

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.