This is Lauren with some of the cousins at Jamestown--it was Jordan's birthday. We come close to filling the little cove reserved for swimming. It was a good day. And Lauren was a game little thing to brave the noise and the chaos when she was due any minute. While watching all the Mama's watching their little ones paddle around like demented fish I was reminded of some of the quotes on Motherhood I have collected over the years, many of them from a book written by Jane Clayson Johnson. So in honor of Robyn, Laura, Erin, Amanda, Katherine and Lauren and all the other mothers in the family--salute!

In our society we give motherhood plenty of lip service. We pat Moms on the head, bring them flowers on Mother's Day and honor them before crowds. But at the end of the day, we don't extend them the same respect we would a professor, a dentist, an accountant, or a judge.

Oprah Winfrey

Sisters, we must revere motherhood in our homes, in our church callings, in our places of employment, in our associations with our neighbors, in everything we do. If we do not, what are we teaching our daughters?

Jane Clayson Johnson

Let France have good Mothers and she will have good Sons!

Napoleon Bonaparte

Your success as a family...our success as a nation...depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside YOUR house!

Barbara Bush

Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle have the power to rock his earthly empire. He knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the kingdom of God will fail.

Sheri Dew

God planted within mothers something divine.

Gordon B. Hinckley