#in

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#add #burden #disability #disease #enough

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#act #again #also #care #difficult

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#books #both #each #enjoying #fun

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#hearts #like #men #over #pull

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#i #i think #than #think #ultimately

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#environment #foreign #guys #home #home life

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#ever #good #good mother #grocery #grocery shopping

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#being #complete #experienced #felt #fulfillment

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#conversations #easy #find #husband #i

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#circumstances #does #even #everything #give