Odd and Ends

Gotta love the little pink flower for its tenacity:

This is the product of my long weekend in Chicago - I'm going to call it my Conference Sock:
And I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me before, but we have child-rearing books at the library:

And this from my Page-a-Day calendar - Sunday's page:

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"

~Charles M. Schultz