Budgeting Time

We recently purchased a Kindle for our family, and are very much enjoying it. I just started reading How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennet (available free from Project Gutenberg).

I love this quote, "The chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career. Which fact is very gratifying and reassuring. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose."

Or, as Anne of Green Gables said, "Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" (L. M. Montgomery)

And another quote that made me laugh out loud a little later: "I cannot allow you to scatter priceless pearls of time with such Oriental lavishness. You are not the Shah of time."

I'm very much enjoying the book so far.

Literalist

DH was tucking M&M in the other night before bed, and M&M said something about being really annoyed with her stuffy nose.

DH sympathetically said something like, "Oh, yeah, stuffy noses are the worst."

He finished praying with M&M and then went across the room to Ebee's bed. She had been lying there quietly, but looked up at him with a confused frown.

"Daddy, isn't leukemia worse than snuffles?"

"What?" He was confused.

"You said stuffy noses were the worst. Isn't leukemia worse than snuffles?"

Well, yes, actually.