MOTHER’S DAY 2009

Last week when I passed the Mother’s Day cards at the grocery store, I paused for a minute with a pang of sadness and walked on. My Mother had died in February and so I would not be celebrating Mother’s Day anymore. And not until a few days later when a neighbor asked what I would be doing on Mother’s Day, did it hit me that of course I would celebrate Mother’s Day. After all, I have two children and two grandchildren.

As my grandsons have a busy Sunday playing in their teams’ Lacrosse games, we couldn’t get together. Instead, we went out for dinner last night. And since my son lives in Chicago, I won’t get to see him, but I hope he will call me. However, if I don’t hear from him by 7:00, I will call him instead. “Rick,” I will say, “How are you doing. I am just calling so that you can wish me Happy Mother’s Day ;-) “. As they say if the mountain won’t come to you, then you should go to the mountain.

By Hannah --www.FunnyPhotosContest.com a photo contest for cute or funny photos and photo captions.

FACEBOOK

It seems like all of a sudden, FaceBook.com has become a national craze. Hundreds of thousands of people are setting up FaceBook accounts and inviting everyone they know to become a “friend”. I created my own FaceBook account about three years ago, when I thought it might provide a good avenue for advertising my website, www.FunnyPhotosContest.com. Unfortunately, it didn’t and so I have rarely looked at the site since.

However, in the past several weeks, I have received numerous emails from my children, high school friends, and college friends inviting me to “be their friend”. This peeked my curiosity and so once again, I checked it out. Although, I will probably not spend much time sending messages or writing on a friend’s wall, I thoroughly enjoy reading my children’s profiles. I’m learning things about them I might otherwise never have found out. I wonder if they have heard the experts warnings to young people, “Don’t put anything on the web that you wouldn’t want your Mother to see !!!!”

FIFTY YEARS AGO

This past summer I celebrated another milestone in my life – my 50-year high school class reunion. As I looked around the room I felt sad for those classmates who had died, but at the same time happy for those of us who could still enjoy this wonderful celebration. We laughed, we joked, we reminisced, and we talked about our lives.

I talked about my new hobby, www.FunnyPhotosContest.com
for cute or funny photos and photo captions, and others talked about their travels around the world, their recent careers, and their successes, etc. etc. Of course, we talked about our grandchildren. And to my surprise, one of my classmates, Tom, not only had two grandchildren the same ages as mine, but our four grandchildren lived in the same nearby small town.

Lo and behold the next day when I talked to my grandsons they confirmed that they knew my classmate’s grandchildren very well. In addition, the four children live within a block of each other!!!