Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes

You always gotta take advantage when you can spend time with your kids.

Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.

I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

A day with my kids is the best day.

With the kids around, this is a different world to me. I spend a lot of time with them till they go to their playschool. I wake up early, have breakfast with them. I come back from work and am with them again till they go to bed by 10 P.M. Touch wood, this is what I wanted always.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

My time with my family is a priority.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.

I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.

I never spend more than a week away from the children.

Obviously, I want to spend every minute with my daughter that I can.

I love my time with my kids.

I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.

From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.

Enjoy the little fun things - like taking your kids to school - before they're all grown up.

I would love to sit at home all day and play with my kids. It's my favorite thing to do in my time off.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

When your child is looking up at you, and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.

I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they're waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.

I want to do the basic things, like putting my daughter to bed. It's the sweetest thing.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.