Thanks to all who participated in the Family Sayings competition. For those who missed it, you can see it by clicking here.

Some of you were too shy to post your contributions in the comments section for us all to see, so I have summarized them all (I hope!) below. This list contains the entries that met my stringent criteria:

  • Leaving you hanging on the clothesline of…
  • Gazing at the reflection in the window of opportunity
  • Making an omelette with the eggs in your basket
  • Riding the waves on the sea of discontent
  • Stripping the sheets from the bed of roses
  • Turning the fire extinguisher on the blaze of glory
  • Stuck just beyond the U-bend of my mind
  • Sitting on the tines of the fork in the road

What a great list! We have begun using some in our daily conversation already!

Others were stimulated to reflect on saying or quotes that have influence in their family or personal life in one way or another. These included:

"If each before his own door swept, the village would be clean"

"God is not disillusioned with us because he had no illusions to begin with!"

“There is no present like time”

"You can't have your cake and eat your biscuit as well" (small translation problem!)

"There is nothing that you can do to make God love you less, and there is nothing that you can do to make God love you more." 

"While the ladder is out" (encouragement to do the next job...)

And then there was the posted explanation of the modern parenting technique aptly named The Crap Sandwich. If you didn't read the comment from Chris P, you can see it by clicking here!

After long and careful consideration and review, and a minor and selective polling of those around us, we are thrilled to announce as the Family Sayings winner....

 

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"Stripping the sheets from the bed of roses"

submitted by Meg Murchland

 

Meg, your prize will be dispatched soon.

May you be fully immersed in the the font of adulation!

Thanks everyone for playing along.