To build a civilized home life is the work of a lifetime, not achieved in a short period of time or without great effort and perseverance. This is what makes our role, as we raise and mentor and love our children, so profoundly important.

Make your home and your home life, always and forever, a place of welcome, refuge, fun, comfort, and delight. You will find the work inside its walls will hold influence for a lifetime. You will never stop "making home," because there will always be people in your world longing for the life that you have created there.

Read more about this in Awaking Wonder.