"You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out. It will not be the money you have made, it will not be the cars you have owned, it will not be the large house in which you have lived. The searing question that will cross your mind again and again will be, how well have my children done?

If the answer is that they have done very well, then your happiness will be complete. If they have done less then well, then no other satisfaction can compensate for your loss. And so I plead with you tonight, my dear sisters sit down and quietly count the debits and credits in your role as a mother. It is not too late. When all else fails, there is prayer and the promised help of the Lord to assist you in your trials. But do not delay start now, whether your child be 6 or 16."

-Gordon B. Hinckley

" I hope that my child, looking

back on today

Remembers a mother who had

time to play.

Children grow up while we're not

looking.

There will be years ahead for cooking

and cleaning.

So cobwebs be quiet and dust go to

sleep.

I am rocking my baby and babies

don't keep."