Celebrating Celebrations

This time of year weddings and graduations are often on people’s minds. Add Mother’s Day and in families like ours, several birthdays, and it can be a month centered around celebrations.  Which isn’t such a bad thing, if you ask me.

My Mom and my Daughter-in-law were both in town for Mothers Day 2017. What a treat.

This year was an unusual one for us – there actually were no weddings in our immediate family (though two of my five married children had their weddings in past months of May) and there were no graduations (also unusual, since between high school and college graduations we’ve also done quite a few of those in previous Mays). But we still had our share of birthdays, including my youngest son turning 21. And it was fun to celebrate Mother’s Day this year with three mothers in the house (me, my Mom, and one of my daughters-in-law).

To celebrate a month of celebrations, I thought I would share some of my favorite quotes on each of these topics:

Weddings (Love)

• “Who, being loved, is poor?” Oscar Wilde
• “Where there is love there is life.” Mahatma Gandhi
• “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”  William Shakespeare
• “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller

All dressed up for Wedding #4 (February 14, 2016)

Graduation (Education)

• “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
• “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver
• “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” Abigail Adams
• “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin
• “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” Albert Einstein

One of our many, many high school graduations (this one in 2012).

Mother’s Day

• “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” Abraham Lincoln
• “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” Victor Hugo
• “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” Henry Ward Beecher
• “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” Agatha Christie

With three mothers in the house this year, flowers were in abundance!

Birthdays

• “May happiness and sunshine fill your day not only on your birthday but the whole year through.” Author Unknown
•  “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” Dr. Seuss
• “May you live all the days of your life.”  Jonathan Swift
• “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
•  “I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.” Thomas Edison

Celebrating another birthday at our house – this one Eli’s 21st.

What are some of your favorite quotes for birthdays, weddings, graduations, or Mothers Day? Please share.

Happy celebrating!

Cathy (Mom of 12) – which means lots of celebrations!