Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way....

“ Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it. ”

Nancy E. Turner

From : These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine