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I guess the idea never went across the 'Pond' when the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth, because their Mother Parish was back in england.... getting back for a day's shindig would have been a bit of a challenge....!



Good idea! let me know on what you decide - if it's still to come, I'll send you a non-card!! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

good luck with persuading the neighbours...!!

Hee hee hee....you're so funny! You're right, it would be a challenge to get back across the pond if you're a pilgrim. Thankfully, nowadays we have airplanes and long-distance telephone, so I do hear of people making calls and visits across the world to see their family. I'll never forget the time my brother- and sister-in-law came to visit from Germany...but that's another story. The point is, at least they could use a plane; they didn't have to sail and get scurvy and stuff. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

A non-card...ha ha ha....what exactly is a non-card? I'm imagining a very plain piece of paper that says, "THIS IS NOT A CARD. Happy Unbirthday." I think I will try that one on some of my friends just to see their reaction!

Again - I won't address your snipes or now, your second attempted personal attack on me!!

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I think anyone who sticks to their guns against popular public opinion is to be commended... It's hard to stick to your principles when everybody is attempting to sway you in an opposite direction....people capitulate to please others, and just for the quiet life... and spend to the end of their days regretting it...

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The only time to relinquish your principles is when 'you' yourself prove to yourself they are wrong...Nobody else should ever do that to you, or assume they have that right.

"In matters of Taste, swim with the current: In matters of Principle - stand like a Rock."

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I just hate that Mother's Day is a Hallmark holiday. Gag me.

In church on Sunday they were handing out flowers to the mothers. Well, it progressed from "everyone who wants to take a flower to your mother, do so" to "okay kids, make sure every woman in the congregation has a flower." I couldn't help it--I grumbled "way to assume every woman is a mother." Not that I was entirely complaining, exactly--I was stuck back in the choir loft behind the orchestra, and having climbed back there from my spot in the front of the orchestra so I could sing, I wasn't crawling back out to get my mom a flower. So having one delivered to me was sort of nice. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I guess it was just that it felt sort of like they were assuming all of the women in the congregation either was a mother who perhaps didn't have her kids there to bring her a flower, or were Future Mommies of America(tm). That may not have been the intention--at least part of it, for example, I'm sure was just that they had a lot of extra flowers--but still.

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