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The other day while at Walmart, I saw people looking for Mother’s Day Cards, it made me sad because I no longer have a living mom to buy a card for.

My mom was wonderful. Sure we had our disagreements and I imagine I wasn’t the most favorite person in her or my Aunt’s life when i was a baby and mixed the sugar and flour and salt the day after they got their monthly rations in WWII.

Nor was I when she told me no when I was about 12 or 13 and she caught me stomping on a new blouse in my room.

But we got along great overall and when she retired in 1977 she moved to VA to live with me and Tink and Gentle Hands. She lived with us until she died in 1994 and was PiperDude’s best friend as well as great Grandma. We have pictuers of her teaching PiperDude to crawl because Doc said that if he didn’t crawl it would mess up his reading skills. He had gone right from sitting and pulling up to walking.

My other mom was her sister, my Aunt and mom and I lived with her and my uncle from the time I was 3 until I married. Then when my uncle got sick in June 2004 I came to live with her in Montgomery and after he died in July we moved to the Woodstock/Acworth area of GA. I am glad I ws able to stay with her so she didn’thave to go to Assisted Living. Sometimes she was delighted as a child when I said she could have something. Her eyes would light up and she’d smile and be so grateful.

I know they are without pain and have a better life than their last few years, but they are so missed here. I picture them up there have a blast together.

Everyone knows about THE SECRET by now I guess. So tonite I attended an online chat and this book was the topic and how it really isn’t anything new but has been around in different forms for years. Now it’s just been repackaged and in this day and age gets to more people.

I was also editing a newsletter article for a friend and this was also her topic, that the idea of positive thinking, and picturing exactly what you want, whether it be housing, financial, spiritual, whatever in exact detail.

So I”m picturing myself in my house in Va Beach with my grandchildren visiting all the time, my Noahs Ark Workshop traveling stuff -n- fluff very successful and Dancer and her sister helping me.

Virginia Beach here i come!!!!

Piper Dude is working 30 hr week at $5.40 an hour in hopes of being able to pay for college, he is not just a teen looking for spending money. In-state 3 credit classes are $633 plus fees. That’s just about 5-6 weeks to pay for one class, not counting taxes taken from wages, books, car insurance, gas and maybe eating. Many adults are working at minimum wage or just a little over it and trying to support families.

So how in the world do the Democrats think it was ok to tack this bill onto the Iraq withdrawal bill that President Bush said he would veto long before it was finalized?

In the Atlanta Journal Constitution there is a article by Edward Kennedy justifying them tacking the bills together.

Now I guess the Democrats can say they tried to fulfill campaign promises and it’s President Bush’s fault it didn’t go through. But is it really fulfilling promises when doing a bill in such a way that you absolutely know the President has already said he would veto? I don’t think so. I think they are all mouth and nothing else.

Used to be we were Republicans and Democrats durning the election, then once it was over, pulled together mostly for the sake of the country. As long as they continue to pull party lines, nothing good will ever get done.