Our Family's Values

"There are seven sins: wealth without work; pleasure without conscience ; science without humanity; knowledge without character; politics without principle; commerce without morality; worship without sacrifice."  - Mahatma Ghandi

Fiona has a new obsession:  Hugging.

Over the last couple of weeks she has been offering hugs with increasing regularity and decreasing selectivity.  In short, everybody's getting a hug, all of the time: Mom and Dad, babies in her classroom, her teachers, the waitress at our favorite restaurants. 

As her parents, we - of course - could not be happier.  After the last year of give, give, give - we're now receiving such heartfelt and unabasheded love from this little person. Selfishly, it feels really good.  It also feels like receiving a gold star on the parenting chore chart.  Maybe, just maybe a few of our family values are already being imprinted on Fiona.   She's not yet reciting Ghandi's seven sins (which are hanging in our hallway), but we'll take hugging as indicator that we're headed in the right direction.