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