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Mom's
Mar 14, 2010 5:01:31 GMT -6
Post by vox on Mar 14, 2010 5:01:31 GMT -6
Happy Mother's Day to all you Mom's (Mum's) out there!
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Mom's
Mar 14, 2010 7:11:14 GMT -6
Post by Phalon on Mar 14, 2010 7:11:14 GMT -6
Happy Mother's Day to you too, Vox! I hope you have a wonderful one.
Here, in the U.S., Mother's Day is in May - this year it falls on the 9th, I believe.
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Mom's
Mar 14, 2010 11:44:13 GMT -6
Post by vox on Mar 14, 2010 11:44:13 GMT -6
Ooops! didn't realise that, but thanks for your reply Phalon!
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Mom's
Mar 14, 2010 12:50:36 GMT -6
Post by Gabrielle On Nutbread on Mar 14, 2010 12:50:36 GMT -6
Gah, nails on chalkboard... Moms with an apostrophe and it doesn't mean something that belongs to a mom. Eh, don't mind me. And, yep, Phalon, I looked it up. Sunday, May 9th is where it falls this year. ....Though, I didn't realize it fell on different dates depending on what country you're in. Guess I learned something today, huh?
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Mom's
Mar 14, 2010 13:10:31 GMT -6
Post by vox on Mar 14, 2010 13:10:31 GMT -6
Yeah Gabrielle, it's funny the things that make you go Aaaargh! isn't it? I still can't get used to the different spellings of words we have between the two countries, like:- Color/Colour, Center/Centre etc.
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Mom's
Mar 14, 2010 13:15:42 GMT -6
Post by Gabrielle On Nutbread on Mar 14, 2010 13:15:42 GMT -6
Yeah, I've also seen people use commas and apostrophes interchangeably, and that's another nails on the chalkboard thing to me. I have a lot of nails on chalkboard reactions to stuff I read, though. I posted a couple of them on the Getting Wordy thread, if you're interested. So don't worry about it. I'll live.
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Mom's
Mar 14, 2010 21:17:20 GMT -6
Post by Phalon on Mar 14, 2010 21:17:20 GMT -6
No worries, Vox. It was nice to come in here this morning and see a Happy Mother's Day message. And even though you celebrated Mother's Day today, you'll get another one come May. This way we get two....and I know you know that us Moms can use all the Happy Mother's Days we can get!
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Mom's
Mar 14, 2010 23:33:42 GMT -6
Post by Mini Mia on Mar 14, 2010 23:33:42 GMT -6
Happy Belated Mother's Day, Vox.
Gabrielle: A lot of holidays are at different times in other countries. Canada has their Thanksgiving on the Second Monday in October. I think it was wise not to have it so close to Christmas.
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Mom's
Mar 15, 2010 0:49:54 GMT -6
Post by vox on Mar 15, 2010 0:49:54 GMT -6
No worries, Vox. It was nice to come in here this morning and see a Happy Mother's Day message. And even though you celebrated Mother's Day today, you'll get another one come May. This way we get two....and I know you know that us Moms can use all the Happy Mother's Days we can get! We certainly can there Phalon! Had a lovely day, my daughter and 2 grandsons came over for the day and cooked us a lovely dinner! It's funny how much hungrier you feel when someone else cooks it for you!
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Mom's
Mar 15, 2010 0:54:45 GMT -6
Post by vox on Mar 15, 2010 0:54:45 GMT -6
Thank you for the belated message Mia.
We don't celebrate thanksgiving over here as you all do (it sounds such a great idea, I wish we did!), we have a day called 'Harvest Festival in September.
just a little snippet of info regarding it:-
Harvest Festival is a celebration of the food grown on the land.
Thanksgiving ceremonies and celebrations for a successful harvest are both worldwide and very ancient. In Britain, we have given thanks for successful harvests since pagan times. We celebrate this day by singing, praying and decorating our churches with baskets of fruit and food in a festival known as 'Harvest Festival', usually during the month of September.
Harvest Festival reminds Christians of all the good things God gives them. This makes them want to share with others who are not so fortunate. In schools and in Churches, people bring food from home to a Harvest Festival Service. After the service, the food that has been put on display is usually made into parcels and given to people in need.
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Mom's
Mar 15, 2010 6:16:25 GMT -6
Post by Phalon on Mar 15, 2010 6:16:25 GMT -6
It sounds like you had a lovely day, Vox...and your Harvest Festival sounds like a lovely celebration too. I love autumn celebrations - anything to do with autumn, really. I think it's one of the reasons Halloween and Thanksgiving are my favorite holidays; they occur during the season I like the best.
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Mom's
Mar 15, 2010 16:43:11 GMT -6
Post by Mini Mia on Mar 15, 2010 16:43:11 GMT -6
My county has a harvest festival every year. Food, bands, all kinds of fun.
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Mom's
Mar 15, 2010 22:52:27 GMT -6
Post by stepper on Mar 15, 2010 22:52:27 GMT -6
First, Happy Belated Mum's Day Vox, and so that this one isn't belated, Happy Grandparent's Day too - when ever that is!
And how important are mom's/mum's? Maybe this is a clue. We all get "those" emails. You know the ones I mean: using the first letter of you last name come up with a word that starts with that letter for each of the following: Color, article of clothing, occupation, etc. Some of them will ask "If you could talk to anyone from the past, who would it be?"
You can almost always identify the people whose parents have passed because they're the ones with the response of "Mom".
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Mom's
May 8, 2010 5:06:34 GMT -6
Post by Phalon on May 8, 2010 5:06:34 GMT -6
It's time, Vox. Happy Mother's Day for the second time around this year. Actually, it's a day early; Mother's Day here is tomorrow - but I'm leaving after work this evening to go visit my Mom for Mother's Day....and her birthday, which falls on Monday.
Happy Mother's Day to all - whether you're Mom or child, new memories or old, hope the day is spent enjoying the present and reminiscing past good times.
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Mom's
May 8, 2010 7:01:53 GMT -6
Post by vox on May 8, 2010 7:01:53 GMT -6
Hope you have a great time Phalon, my Mom's birthday is on Monday 10th too! She is 80 years old. We (the family) held a surprise party for her last weekend. So she will be having a reasonably quiet one on Monday.
We wish you all A Happy Mother's Day across the water!
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Mom's
May 8, 2010 20:23:36 GMT -6
Post by Mini Mia on May 8, 2010 20:23:36 GMT -6
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Mom's
Jun 1, 2010 19:14:36 GMT -6
Post by Mini Mia on Jun 1, 2010 19:14:36 GMT -6
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Mom's
Apr 3, 2011 22:18:55 GMT -6
Post by Mini Mia on Apr 3, 2011 22:18:55 GMT -6
Happy Mum's Day to those in the UK!
(I saw a thread on another board. Don't know the exact day though. Today? Yesterday? )
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Mom's
Apr 5, 2011 5:46:43 GMT -6
Post by Phalon on Apr 5, 2011 5:46:43 GMT -6
Oh! Did I miss it?
Happy Mother's Day, Vox, and all the other Moms in the Motherland, (that's why they call it that, isn't it?).
Hope you enjoy/enjoyed your day.
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Mom's
Apr 5, 2011 10:36:31 GMT -6
Post by vox on Apr 5, 2011 10:36:31 GMT -6
Thanks to Phalon and all you ladies over the water, our Mother's Day was Sunday 3rd! Had a good day (gardening) it was great to be outside again!
Hope you All had a good Mother's Day too!
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Mom's
Apr 6, 2011 5:43:23 GMT -6
Post by Phalon on Apr 6, 2011 5:43:23 GMT -6
Glad you had a good one, Vox! A day of gardening sounds grand.
Our Mother's Day isn't until the first Sunday in May; I think it's the 8th. Maybe by then, it'll be warm enough here for me to spend the day in my gardens too - I haven't done a thing out there yet.
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Mom's
Apr 29, 2011 14:54:04 GMT -6
Post by vox on Apr 29, 2011 14:54:04 GMT -6
I certainly hope it is a good day for you Phalon! How are you all over there?, been watching the news about your awful weather I do hope everyone is okay?
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Mom's
Apr 29, 2011 17:00:49 GMT -6
Post by Mini Mia on Apr 29, 2011 17:00:49 GMT -6
I've been fortunate where I am. We're high enough not to have to worry about flooding, and we tend to be spared by the winds and tornadoes. We think it has to do with being close to the river. (We think the tornadoes jump the river and stay up until they get past us before setting down.) We've lost lights a few times though. 3 & 5 hour outages. A childhood friend of my dad and his brothers lost his garage, and at least one vehicle was in it at the time. (My sister & brother-in-law reported the news after driving about to see how our community fared.)
One night as I was helping Mom get hooked up to her machine, my niece and her family dropped in to take cover in the basement. (Basement = dug out hole under house dad made to put the homemade woodstove he crafted.) Well, my niece and her two little ones hid in the basement. Her hubby went from room to room looking out windows to see what he could see. The wind got really scary at one point, making a noise you don't normally hear & making Mom's back wall rattle loudly, and there's a thin mailbox numbers sign stuck in a neighbor's tree trunk like someone used it for an axe. But we and our homes made it through. As I headed back up the steps, my niece asked if I was going to stay down there with them, and I said I was going to go back to stay with Mom ... if she was going to get blown away, so was I. She's had to weather all the bad storms stuck in her bedroom connected to her machine. I told her we should probably all pool in together and get a storm shelter with electricity, and just hook her up in there every night no matter what the weather and she wouldn't have to ever worry about a sudden storm blowing her away.
The guys on the news say that May is when the highest number of tornadoes hit, so if April broke its record number of hits, I'd hate to think what May's going to bring. The record hits for May is over 500-and-something. (Too lazy to do a 2-minute drill at the moment.) Maybe May will break the record in least amount of hits.
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Mom's
May 1, 2011 6:34:01 GMT -6
Post by Phalon on May 1, 2011 6:34:01 GMT -6
We get the same thing from Lake Michigan, Joxie. Even though the weather brews over the lake, it'll jump the shoreline, and hit hardest a couple miles inland. The same thing with winter storms until the shoreline freezes....and then it's the reverse; it's us that gets dumped upon in the form of snow. Luckily, the shoreline waters have long since thawed by the time tornado season hits.
Glad to hear the worst of it has missed you. It's been mostly thunderstorms, constant rain and low temperatures here.
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Mom's
May 2, 2011 21:44:05 GMT -6
Post by Mini Mia on May 2, 2011 21:44:05 GMT -6
It could be just a matter of time. Every winter there would be ice storms that would take out the electricity for weeks, but it never hit here. And then the ice storm of 2009 took us out. So, there could be a tornado in our future. I really hope not though.
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Mom's
May 7, 2011 16:50:29 GMT -6
Post by Mini Mia on May 7, 2011 16:50:29 GMT -6
I don’t want to be late, so for all who celebrate this Sunday, and for those who already have, and for those who will later…..
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Mom's
May 7, 2011 16:52:16 GMT -6
Post by Mini Mia on May 7, 2011 16:52:16 GMT -6
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Mom's
May 7, 2011 22:15:59 GMT -6
Post by katina2nd on May 7, 2011 22:15:59 GMT -6
Happy Mothers Day to all the Moms here, and all Moms in general for that matter.
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Mom's
May 7, 2011 23:43:46 GMT -6
Post by Phalon on May 7, 2011 23:43:46 GMT -6
Big Mom's Day hugs to all the mothers, and to everyone in general, for that matter.
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Mom's
May 8, 2011 22:35:28 GMT -6
Post by Siren on May 8, 2011 22:35:28 GMT -6
And to you, Gams. Hope it was time well spent with Hubs and the girls.
Good seeing you, Kat!
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