Romp and Pray

"The Shell" byWilliam Adolphe Bouguereau, 1871

 "With my children I always aim for flexibility. I think a mother, especially, ought to learn to enter into the gayer moods of her children at the very moment when her own heart is sad. And it may be as religious an act for her to romp with them at one time as to pray with them at another." ~ Katy, from Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss