"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever
to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

- Elizabeth Stone

   For more Mother's Day quotations, see last year's Newsletter:

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Here are your Roses for Mothers Day. Have a Happy Mothers Day, 2006. 

Herbie

GASP!!!  Herbie, they're beautiful!  Thank you so much, Sweetie! And, mmmmmm, (she said, stopping to smell the roses), the fragrance is positively intoxicating!

   (And y'all wonder why I love Marines!)

MOTHER
  
This is a truly BEAUTIFUL piece. Please
read this at a slow pace, digesting every word and in
leisure...do not  hurry....this is a treasure...

 For those lucky to still be blessed with your mom,
this is beautiful. For those of us who aren't, this is
 even more beautiful. For those who are moms, you'll love this.

The girl in the mother,
the mother in the girl.

But the young mother was happy, and she would not believe that  anything could be better than these years. So she played with her children, and gathered flowers for them along the way, and bathed them in the clear streams; and the sun shone on them, and the young Mother cried, "Nothing will ever be lovelier than this."  

Then the night came, and the storm, and the path was dark, and the children shook with fear and cold, and the mother drew them close and  covered them with her mantle, and the children said, "Mother, we are not afraid, for you are near, and no harm can come."  

And the morning came, and there was a hill ahead, and the children climbed and grew weary, and the mother was weary. 

But at all times she said to the children," A little patience and we are there."

So the children climbed, and when they reached the top they said, "Mother, we would
not have done it without you."  

And the mother, when she lay down at night looked up at the stars and said, "This is a better day than the last, for my children have learned fortitude in the face of hardness. Yesterday I gave them courage. Today, I've given them strength."

And the next day came strange clouds which darkened the earth, clouds of war and hate and evil, and the children groped and stumbled, and the mother said: "Look up. Lift your eyes to the light."  

And the children looked and saw above the clouds an everlasting glory, and it guided them beyond the darkness.

And that night the Mother said, "This is the best day of all, for I have shown my children God."  

And the days went on, and the weeks and the months and the years, and the mother grew old and she was little and bent.  But her children were tall and strong, and walked with courage.  And when the way was rough, they lifted her, for she was as light as a feather; and at last they came to a hill, and beyond they could see a shining  road and golden gates flung wide.

And the mother said, "I have reached the end of my journey. And now I know the end is better than the beginning, for my children can walk alone, and their children after them."  

   (Judy like to make me cry - huge sobs....)

   Thanks, Jude!  It was truly beautiful!  Tell all your babies (and grandbabies, and great grandbabies, etc.) Hi for me.  And Happy Mother's Day!  

   See, Sweetie?!?  Every time you write, you brighten my whole day!

   It sounds as though I was "fishing" there, but I really wasn't; that was just a statement of fact.  The problem wasn't so much that I perceived myself to be ugly; it was that I was an ugly little girl, and the other children were not only quick, but anxious to point that fact out to me, just in case I might somehow have missed it. 

   Now this next part may just be my perception of it (though I seriously doubt it), but      Chippy Clark ('65 - of Northern VA), bless his sweet heart everlastingly, was the only boy that I recall ever being consistently nice to me in elementary school.  Our desks were frequently adjoining, so we used to sketch mushroom cloud drawings for one another.  How romantic!

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    That's probably what made me try harder.

"I could not get enough magnification to be sure, but I believe the license plate on the  
"Redneck Spoiler" car is a Canadian plate. I do not think it is from
a southern state."

  Tom Oxner


Dave's Rebuttal:

"REDNECK IS A STATE OF MIND ... NOT A STATE OF THE UNION"

________________________________________________________________________

Having said that .... I could not let the mystery just lie there. So, off to the Internet.

And ... the answer is:   SASKATCHEWAN.

Look at the plate on the car.

Now, load up this page:   http://www.geocities.com/alpca8123sk/

Now match the Redneck car plate to the one on the far right of the next to bottom row.

MYSTERY SOLVED!!!

At least Saskatchewan is in southern Canada.

Dave

   WILD GIGGLES!!!  That it is!  Captain, your detective skills never cease to astonish me.  You're simply the best!  Thanks, Brown Eyes!

   Oh, thank you so much, Evelyn!  I really appreciate that!

 1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

4. My mother taught me LOGIC
" Because I said so, ! that's why."

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

7. My mother taught me IRONY
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home."

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when you get home!"

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."

19. My mother taught me ESP.
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

25. And my favorite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"

   WILD GIGGLES!!!  Thanks for the multitudinous laughs, Jamey!

Happy Mother's Day!

   OOOPS!    Thanks, Paula!  I made those corrections and added your note to the TDK page.  While I was there I saw that not a single page in that section had return bars at the bottom, so I added those as well for your convenience.

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   Thanks again, Lovely lady!  Happy Mother's Day!

Dear Carol:   Carol, thanks for all you do----you are just a miracle worker.  You don't know how much it brightens my day when I check the site and see that there's a new newsletter!!  Even the glitch about     Robert Smith ('65) ----- it had made me so sad to read (a long time ago) that he had died in Viet Nam and I had been unaware of it (I lost way too many friends back then).  I'm glad he lived much longer than we had thought!!!  "The news of his death was greatly exaggerated.".............. Yours, Sheila

   Thank you, Sheila!  You just brightened my day!   Happy Mother's Day!

   Thank you so much, Jerry!    This is horribly funny - in some very deeply disturbing way...........

   Thank you, Gorgeous!

 Thanks, Dicky! 

   Thanks, Dave! 

   There will be no Newsletter tomorrow.  As we all had imagined he would, my uncle    Jimmy Atkinson quickly followed his beloved wife    Frances (Frix Atkinson - Thomas Jefferson HS - '37) to the other side.  We will be in Richmond again tomorrow for his funeral.