A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....02-23-05....Another Finest Play Day

Mama_Bear

[Mama_Bear]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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Yes, FRiends, it's another
Finest "Play Day"!

We should be visiting another state today, but the 'Finest Tour Bus' is in the shop for repairs (again!). So, we will be staying home and having a play day instead.

For those of you who have your heart set on traveling, you are welcome to re-visit any or all of our Finest states below..... :-)

05-23-03 Alabama 06-27-03 Maryland 07-11-03 Vermont 07-25-03 Utah 08-05-03 Texas 08-22-03 Nevada 08-26-03 Wash DC 09-05-03 Tennessee 09-17-03 Florida 09-19-03 Minnesota 10-03-03 New Mexico 10-14-03 Georgia 10-17-03 Louisiana 10-22-03 Michigan 11-04-03 South Dakota

11-14-03 California 01-09-04 South Carolina 02-06-04 West Virginia 02-20-04 Oregon 03-09-04 Pennsylvania 03-30-04 Wyoming 04-13-04 Mississippi 04-27-04 Missouri 05-25-04 Indiana 07-21-04 Virginia 08-18-04 Colorado 09-29-04 Idaho 10-20-04 New Hampshire 12-07-04 Hawaii 02-09-05 Maine

...the rest of us will
stay here and









Being 8 Years Old Again

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.

• I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
• I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.
• I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.
• I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.
• I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.
• I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good.
• I want to believe that anything is possible.
• I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
• I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.
• I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.

So, here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, 'cause...

"Tag! You're it!"

and have a wonderful Wednesday!

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[Dubya]

What a nice thread. Thank you.

[Mama_Bear]

My beautiful little girl just turned 8 and I am so proud of her.

Well, she'll fit right in here with our crowd today. No one knows how to play like an eight year old. :-)

She writes to the troops when she can and loves to listen to Sean and Mark Levin..you made me smile and cry at the same time.

Today's post is a silly one and I almost didn't post it, but I didn't have anything else planned for the thread today. Now I am feeling better about it. :-)

Hugs to your eight year old! Sounds like Mama is raising her up to be a proud and patriotic American. We can sure use more of them! :-)

[StarCMC]

You have FReepmail coming

[Mama_Bear]

I will add you and your two cousines to my prayer list. God bless them for their service.

[Mama_Bear]

....you've got mail.

:-) Got it.

[Dubya]

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked,

"Who would like this $20 bill?"

Hands started going up.

He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.

He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill. He then asked, "Who still wants it?"

Still the hands were up in the air.

Well, he replied, "What if I do this?"

And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.

He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"

Still the hands went into the air.

My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson.

No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value.

It was still worth $20.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.

We feel as though we are worthless.

But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who DO LOVE you.

The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know,

but by WHO WE ARE.

You are special- Don't EVER forget it."

If you do not pass this on, you may never know the lives it touches, the hurting hearts it speaks to, or the hope that it can bring.

Count your blessings, not your problems.

And remember: amateurs built the ark .. professionals built the Titanic.

If God brings you to it - He will bring you through it.

[Mama_Bear]

Hi BykrBayb. Hope you and your Navy son are doing well. Is he stationed aboard a ship? :-)

[Mama_Bear]

Thanks for your compliment. We're just having a silly play day today. Nice for a change. :-)

[BykrBayb]

USS Charlotte (SSN 766), ported in Pearl Harbor. Just got back from WestPac a couple weeks ago, and expects to head out "somewhere," "soon."

Ah, the Silent Service. LOL

[Mama_Bear]

Ah, the Silent Service. LOL

Oh, that's right, he went into submarine service. I remember now that you told me that. So, when he leaves, you don't know where he is until he surfaces again? That must be hard.

I went aboard a "Fast Attack" sub when we were in Florida for our son's graduation from boot camp years ago. I have the deepest respect for the men who can serve in such close quarters aboard those things. Gives me the heebee-geebees just thinking about it!

[Gabz]

...being a key board activist is one thing, getting out there and confronting the powers that be is another!

You said a mouthful there.

I was a bit down this morning when I posted to you about people seeming to be so apolitical around here....but perked up mightily after receiving a "newsletter" from the County Republican Women's Committee. It was a recap of the meeting last month, which I had attended after being informed of it and the group by my state Senator's constituent person who I had been haranguing on the phone about some legislation.

In it was a comment about my having attended, with a reference to me as a "long time Delaware Republican activist" who has expressed an interest in joining!!!!

Did me good....it's time for me to again go beyond keyboard and telephone activism.

[Steve Newton]

Oh, Mama Bear you don't want to ask me that. I run a web site for the Soldier Moms. Most of them have active duty kids in Iraq. You would get a bunch. But let me know. If you still want them I will get their approval and send the first names to you. (OPSEC)

God bless ya for your service and your love of God.

Steve Newton

[BykrBayb]

I have the deepest respect for the men who can serve in such close quarters aboard those things. Gives me the heebee-geebees just thinking about it!

If they put me in front of a PC, I could go weeks without noticing the confinement. : )

[Dubya]

We're just having a silly play day today. Nice for a change. :-)

Sounds like a good idea to me.

[luvie]

Hey, Mayor! Sounds like you are doing such a great job up there poking a stick in the ant hill! I hope you are able to pull off some positive results for the peeps in your neighborhood! Just keep stirring the pot and kick the rascals out!

[luvie]

You know, Star--I never have gotten my hero band! I just wonder if they ran out of them before they got to me. I'll bet they were overwhelmed with requests for them, but I still hope it comes (maybe before the one I wanted it for gets back home!)

[Aquamarine]

Have taken care of it.
Thank you.

[luvie]

I think many of those who were 'here' yesterday downloaded at least one or two new fonts. Fun, huh?!

Yes, I am one of those, but I still haven't had the time to find out what I can do with them. I will have to study the thread better to find more info. I guess I am a slow learner! Ha-ha!

[Aquamarine]

Happy Belated Anniversary. Meant to mention it yesterday and forgot.

[Gabz]

That is BEAUTIFUL..........