My Favorite Find

Posted: July 5, 2025 | Author: dana lange | Filed under: Uncategorized |1 Comment

In the continuation of the deep clean out of my paper office I came across a file folder I had not looked at in over 25 years. I knew it was in the drawer, but had not bothered to look at it. It was a folder filled with tiny scraps of paper with notes jotted on them. Some were written on the back of receipts, or torn from a pad of paper, most barley legible as I certainly wrote them in a hurry.

The identifying tag on the folder said, “Carter quotes.” Sometime when Carter was about three I made a book of photos with some of these quotes in it. As it is a favorite book for us to look at I thought that this folder was just the original source material for that book. What I discovered as I went through the folder is these were quotes that I kept saving long after she turned three. So most of these I have not read since I first wrote them down and threw them in the folder.

Here are some of my favorites:

“Sometimes my mind stops working and it wants to get away from my head.” March 23, 2003.

“Mommy, it’s like there is a glue between you and me and Daddy and it all comes back to you.”

April 8, 2005

Daddy took Carter to Duke Gardens. While there Carter asked for three Pennies to make wishes with in the fountain.

“I wish I could go back to Disney World.”

“I wish I could go back to San Francisco.”

“I wish I would be so good so I would make my angel proud of me.”

March 8, 2003

“Carter, what are we going to do about your room?”

“Mommy, I think we should just move.”

July 14, 2003

“Carter, please stop crying.”

“It’s too late. I already started.”

October 6, 2003

While looking at a scrap book I made her Carter said, “I wish I could start my life over again. It has been so great.”

October 18, 2003

“Mama, I love you more than the beautiful sun.”

November 30, 2003

“They just lost their minds Carter.”

“Mommy, who got their minds then?”

December 12, 2003

(I really wish I knew what my reply to that was.)

I said, “I have to go to your class on Thursday Carter. What should I say?”

“You should say almost everything you know.”

September 13, 2004

(Thank goodness she just wanted almost everything.)

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