A June Project

On June 23, 2011 my Aunt Roma, who is my Mom's sister, turned 90 years old! We were invited to a birthday picnic for her the following Saturday. I really wanted to give my aunt 90 presents, but since I didn't know what she might want or need that I could afford, this is what she got. . . . . . a thought-a-day for 90 days!

I found 90 little thoughts or quotes and matched them up with a little Mary Engelbreit picture. After they were all typed and glued onto scrapbook paper, I took them to a copy shop to have the spiral binding attached. Just in case I'm not alive to make you one of these books when you turn 90 years old, here are my top ten favorite quotes:

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back

and realize they were the big things."

"A small house will hold as much happiness as a big one."

--early American proverb

"Learn that nothing very bad or very good ever lasts very long."

"Wear a smile and have friends, wear a frown and have wrinkles."

--George Eliot

"Enjoy when you can and endure when you must."

--Goethe

"Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want."

"Remember that triumph is just a little "umph" added to "try"!"

"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more;

whine less, breathe more; hate less, love more;

and all good things will be yours."

--Swedish Proverb

Don't forget little kindnesses and don't remember small faults."

--Chinese Proverb

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."