| Little things mean a lot - that's inspirational | | | | Three and a half years later when I was driving |
| motivation. When I was a little girl, I was afraid of | | | | to my sister's house with my baby son, I was |
| the dark. My grandmother told me sunset was | | | | pulled over by a policeman. Before he could get to |
| Mother Nature's way to say goodnight. That was | | | | my car, I was inspired to take my son's bottle |
| inspirational motivation for me to be brave about | | | | away from him. It was a little thing that caused |
| going to bed. Unfortunately, when Daylight Saving | | | | him a few minutes of loud distress; but instead of |
| Time came, it stopped working. Mother Nature | | | | getting a ticket for going 40 mph in a 30 mph |
| got to stay up later than I did. | | | | zone, I got sympathy. |
| When I was growing up, I was taught please and | | | | Two and a half years later we had our second |
| thank you were little things that meant a lot. | | | | son and there were a lot of little things that |
| They were magic words. Sometimes I think we | | | | meant a lot. Milk cartons being almost empty |
| could turn the world into the Magic Kingdom if | | | | when they got knocked on the floor meant a lot. |
| everyone learned to say please and thank you. | | | | It meant a lot when my younger son didn't get |
| A few days after John proposed we eloped to | | | | poison ivy in his mouth after his older brother |
| our version of the Magic Kingdom. My | | | | convinced him eating it would make him immune. |
| mother-in-law thought it was socially unacceptable | | | | It meant a lot when bikes ridden off the porch |
| that I didn't have an engagement ring. I'm sure | | | | caused broken bikes - not bones. |
| she thought my not having a ring could cause | | | | When boys grow up, they don't know as much |
| socially unacceptable thoughts. Five months later I | | | | about inspirational motivation as girls do. John tells |
| got an engagement ring. Actually, John's parents | | | | me he loves me without knowing it. Yesterday he |
| gave him my engagement ring for his college | | | | folded laundry and hung mirrors in the bathroom. |
| graduation present. Over the years my diamond | | | | Men don't realize it's the little things that mean a |
| engagement ring has definitely proved little things | | | | lot in a marriage. They don't realize how romantic |
| mean a lot. | | | | they can be fully dressed. |