Pam Brown

“A brother is a friend given by nature.”

“Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.”

“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.”

“Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.”

“Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.”

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”

“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.”

“Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.”

“Horses lend us the wings we lack.”

“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”

“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”

“Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother, the next you are all-wise and prehistoric.”

“Hugs are the universal medicine.”

“When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.”

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”