My children have all grown far beyond my expectations. That resulted out of their own personal direction and choice. But I learned more clearly that children are the most valuable resource of any country in all of history, and their capacity to excel, to create, to accomplish is vast because they were endowed with amazing capacity in their hearts, souls, and minds.

How they are shaped determines what they will become and what our own history will become. Little human beings require attention, nurture, love, and focused time in order to develop their capacity to become those who are strong, emotionally healthy, intellectually astute, and vibrant of spirit.

When you make your home 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 be remembered as the wise woman who built her house for eternity.

Read more about this in Awaking Wonder.