In Memory Of

Quotes from Eleanor Ann Dunne Carver

On raising children: 
"Discipline and punishment are not the same thing. Discipline comes from the word disciple, which means spiritual student. When disciplining a child, the parent's job is to teach the child to act with values."

Getting six kids off to school:
"You have to at least have a piece of toast and a glass of milk."

After her kids were grown:
"Eat dessert first. Life is so uncertain."

To her teenage children going out for the evening:
"Nothing good ever happens after midnight."

"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances and changes are all your to take. The mold of your life is in your hands to break." 
–– from the movie, The Hobbit

More quotes from Eleanor:

From her nurse's diary 1952: 
"Finally the delivery room. Usually a happy time watching a new human being enter this world. A miracle! A little gasp for air, a little noise, the cold, the light. It sounds like a demand to return where baby was snug and warm. It's funny that while the baby is crying, the adults are smiling and rejoicing."

Next was the maternity ward–teaching moms how to change diapers and care for new babies, helping babies learn to nurse, especially the smaller ones. As I was the second eldest of ten, I sailed right through it."

From her grief diary after the death of her eldest son, John:
"Just has a good idea. I put $5.00 (big spender) in an envelope witha  note to the finder that it was your birthday and I couldn't give you a gift so s/he was to take the money and blow it on something foolish and fun. (Like strawberry rhubarb pie) I'm sure you're laughing about that. So why am I crying?"

"If you are crying, it's not because I'm gone; it's because you are in the prescience of mystery."