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About a year ago, I read this quote somewhere and I loved it. But I could never find it again. I couldn't remember where I read it, who wrote it or where to even begin looking for it. I had Bryn doing searches on the Internet with a few sparse words that I could recall...but we never did find it. Well, the other day I was reading one of my favorite blogs and what did I see?? The quote!! Yeah! Today is my birthday. I am 37. I am proud of every year. I have few wrinkles, and my gray's need continual maintenance, but I have a lot to show for them :) I think this quote is a good one to live on while working toward 38, 39, 40... Anna Quindlen : ...but the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less. Happy day to all.