Status Updates From Mother Carey's Chickens

"Your influence will be the turning-point in my life. So long as I have brains and hands to work with, I will keep striving to create another home like this when my time comes. Any girl that takes me will get a better husband because of you; any children I may be blessed with will have a better father because I have known you."
And there are women in the world who do not care about being mothers!

Mrs. Tewksbury told me when she knew I had got to give up my home luxuries for a long time. “Don’t let poverty drag you down, Julia she said, keep your high thoughts and don’t let them get soiled with the grime of daily living.”

It was the contentment, the hope, the unity, the pluck, the mutual love, the confidence, the ambition, of the group that touched his imagination and made his heart run out to them.

Osh Popham is just as hilarious in the book it more than in the movie 😂 The movie left out so many good lines!

What we all want as a family is to keep well and strong and good, in body and mind and soul; to conquer our weaknesses, to train our gifts, to harness our powers to some wished-for end, and then PULL, with all our might.

...her heart was grateful and full of hope. She had lost the father of her children and the dear companion of her life, and that loss could never be made good. Still her mind acknowledged the riches she possessed in her children, so she confessed herself neither desolate nor forsaken, but something in a humble human way that the Lord could take delight in.