In Honor of Mothers’ Day, I present

THIRTEEN QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERS

(1) “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

~Sophia Loren~

(2) “Mother: that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”

~T. DeWitt Talmage~

(3)  “You don’t really understand human nature, unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around, and why his parents will always wave back.”

~William D. Tammeus~

(4) “My mom is a never ending song in my heart
of comfort,
happiness,
and being.
I may sometimes forget the words
but I always remember the tune.”

~Gaycie Harmon~

(5)  “A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”

~Tenneva Jordan~

(6)  “Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.”

~George Cooper~

(7)  “All mothers are working mothers.”

~Author Unknown~

(8) The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

She never existed before.

The woman existed, but the mother never.

A mother is something absolutely new.”

~Rajneesh~

(9) “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”

~Marion C. Garretty~

(10)  “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”

~Oprah Winfrey~

(11)  “A man’s work is from sun to sun,

but a mother’s work is never done.”

~Author Unknown~

(12) “It would seem that something that means poverty, disorder and violence every single day, should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.”

~Phyllis Diller~

(13) “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”

~Jewish Proverb~

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It’s my baby brother’s birthday.  Here’s what I wrote last year about him, and here’s what my mother wrote about him this year.

David, I hope this is the beginning of the best year of your life so far!  Happy Birthday!

A weekly meme for giving thanks and/or for noting important events in our lives.

1. I am thankful that Sweet Stuff’s teacher noticed she was having a hard time reading small print. Sweet Stuff had her eyes checked just a few weeks ago at her 6-year check-up, and the results were “borderline.”  Wednesday my daughter had her re-checked by an eye doctor (who happens to be my son’s good childhood friend!) and he found that Sweet Stuff has trouble focusing on things close-up.  She got reading glasses.  Pink, of course with a hot pink carrying case.

(2) I’m thankful my beautiful daughter-in-law got her nursing degree this weekend.

(3) I’m thankful that RT and I were able to enjoy all the festivities surrounding Mia’s graduation and pinning ceremony.  She has worked so hard for a long time to reach this milestone.

(4) I’m thankful that I got a LOT of work done at school.  I have to give many, MANY reading tests the last few weeks of school each year, and I have already got lots of them done.  The bonus is that so many of the children are making such remarkable gains in reading.  I’m so proud of them.

(5) This was a milestone week in our housebuilding efforts, too.  The bricking was finished, the septic system was finished and approved by the county, the prewiring for the alarm system was installed, the porch ceilings were completed, and the electricity up to the house was approved.

(6) Monday the porches will be “poured”.  We’re having concrete porches - both front and back.  The porch posts will also be installed next week.

(7) We got an email from my nephew who is serving in Baghdad, and he is okay although he sounded really homesick and tired of the war.  I mentioned the email to our pastor, and our church is going to start a campaign to gather things to send boxes to troops overseas.

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Things on my desk at work

1.  A coffee cup half full of coffee leftover from yesterday

2.  A coffee cuup half full of coffee leftover from today.

3.  Stapler

4. a tub of highlighters

5.  my eyeglasses

6. a bottle of glue

7. eleven assorted children’s books

8.  a container of Clorox disinfecting wipes

9.  a tape dispenser

10. a business card holder with some of my business cards

11.  a desk calendar

12.  a caddy with some CD’s, pencils, rulers and various other office things

13.  three cassette tapes that have lost their corresponding books

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So another AMERICAN IDOL show is over.  Here’s my view of how the show went. As usual, Melinda did a fantastic job.  She really is a phenomenal singer.  I enjoyed her performance.

LaKisha did better than last week.  But still . . . I think LaKisha has lost her spark.  It just wasn’t an interesting performance.

Chris’s performance was weak.  I didn’t care for it at all.  But then I haven’t cared for his singing from the beginning. 

I love Jordin.  She has been my favorite since about the second week of the show.  However, this week she was not good.  I hope her past performances will get her through this week.

And Blake.  I really don’t like Blake.  Never have.  Have I mentioned that he looks like a fish when he sings?  Yes, I know I have.  However, this week was the only time I actually enjoyed his singing.  I still don’t like him, but I like this week’s performance anyway.

Phil has absolutely nothing that sets him apart from thousands of other wannabe singers.  I didn’t enjoy his performance this week.  Nothing impressive at all.

So who do I think is going home.  My personal vote is a tossup between Phil Stacey or Blake Lewis or Chris Richardson or LaKisha Jones.  If any of them go home Wednesday, it will be okay with me.  I think the bottom two will be Chris and Phil.  If I go by this week’s performance, I could put Jordin Sparks in the mix.  I hope her previous performances will get her through this week.