Mother's Day Quote

I love this quote!  My mom sent it to me.  Happy Mother's Day!! (early!)


I don't want to drive up to the  pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored  clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured  fingernails.

I want to drive up in a station  wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout  camp.

I want to be there with grass  stains on my shoes from mowing my Sister Schenk's  lawn.

I want to be there with a smudge  of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick  neighbor's children.

I want to be there with a little  dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's  garden.

I want to be there with the  children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my  shoulder.

I want the Lord to know I was  really here and that I really lived.

Marjorie Pay  Hinckley