Show A Little Kindness: If I lived in "the land of the midnight sun"

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

If I lived in "the land of the midnight sun"

I was 12 years old when my family left Alaska and moved to the "lower 48."

I remember it staying light a long time in the summer and playing all day long.

I looked today to see what the daylight hours are in Anchorage Alaska and I remembered correctly!

The sun is up today in Anchorage Alaska from 4:28 to 11:31.

I watched my son at basketball camp. If I lived in Alaska I could have watched him all day!

My friend had chemo number 11 with only one more remaining. I cleaned her house picture perfect. If I lived in Alaska I could have cleaned all day!

Isn't her kid's bathroom the cutest? I vacuumed my way out so not even a footprint was there and I swept the porch. I was so excited to do that for her. I love her and I love to clean. I have some professional 409 and Windex and man o man did it shine!

" The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. "

" I don't want to drive up the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.

I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.

I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.

I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.

I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.

I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived"
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley