I try each day, each month, each year to become a better and better person and to be good to the people I love and let them know how much I appreciate them.

I was raised in that generation where it was all 'Women can have it all!' and I don't think you can. I think something falls off the table. The good thing is that the things that stay on the table become so much more important.

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.

Trust that things will be okay - especially if you put in the time and effort to make them be okay.

We're all going through so much hard, wonderful, amazing . . . it's blessings; it's lessons; it's hardship; it's life. I guess, I don't know what the definition of life is. I now know the meaning of my life, because of my daughters, but mine is one little tiny speck in the universe. It's nice to not be pretending everything is perfect all the time, because it isn't, but I do love happiness and joy and optimism.

People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.