Chris and Lorrie Hinton
After the wedding and the bride and groom were heading out with us to get some shots we saw this jester walk past them on his way to the Arts Building for his play. It was just so funny how he reacted to them! Mark snapped this as a very quickly and wasnt sure he got it but he did!
We took pictures this last week of Skip & Sally Meyers and their family.
I have no idea if this is a true breakdown but I’ll assume it is I just love the sentiment of this and on a day I need a break from weddings I just had to sigh and post!
The Price of Children
The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to
18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle-income family. Talk about
sticker shock! That doesn’t even touch college tuition.
But $160,140 isn’t so bad if you break it down. It
translates into: $8,896.66 a year, or
$741.38 a month, or
$171.08 a week, or
That’s a mere $24.24 a day!
Just over a dollar an hour!
Still, you might think the best financial advice is don’t have children if you
want to be ‘rich.’ ? Actually, it is just the opposite.
What do you get for your $160,140?
Naming rights. First, middle, and last!
Glimpses of God every day.
Giggles under the bed covers every night (at least until adolescence).
More love than your heart can hold.
Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and, milk and warm cookies.
A hand to hold usually covered with jelly or chocolate.
A partner for blowing bubbles and flying kites.
Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said
or how your stocks performed that day.
For $160,140, you never have to grow up!
You get to:
finger-paint,
carve pumpkins,
play hide-and-seek,
catch lightning bugs, and
never stop believing in Santa Claus.
You have an excuse to:
keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh,
watching Saturday morning cartoons,
going to Disney movies, and wishing on stars.
You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator
magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand
prints set in clay for Mother’s Day, and cards with backward letters for Father’s Day.
For $160,140, there is no greater bang for your buck.
You get to be a hero just for:
retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof,
taking the training wheels off a bike,
removing a splinter,
filling a wading pool,
coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs,
and coaching a baseball team that never wins,
but always gets treated to ice cream or pizza regardless.
You get a front row seat to history, to witness the:
first step,
first word,
first bra,
first time shaving,
first date, and
first time behind the wheel.
You get to be immortal. You get another branch added to your family tree,
and if you’re lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called
grandchildren and great grandchildren. You get an education in
psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human
sexuality that no college can match.
In the eyes of a child (until adolescence), you rank right up there under God.
You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed,
patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever,
and love them without limits.
So, one day they will, like you, love without counting the cost.
That is quite a deal for the price!!!
Love & enjoy your children & grandchildren!!!
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This is why I love being a grandparent I get to do some of this again!!! Go hug someone today!
Love ya, Kerri
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