A great Idea

Thanks, Clyde.

When doing your Christmas cards this year, take one card and send it to this address.  If we pass this on and everyone sends one card, think of how many cards these wonderful special people who have sacrificed so much would get.

A Great Idea!!!

When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, please include the following:

          A Recovering American soldier

          c/o Walter Reed Army Medical  Center

          6900 Georgia Avenue,NW

          Washington,D..C. 20307-5001

If you approve of the idea, please pass it on to your e-mail list.

Calvin & Hobbes - Wednesday

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2007/11/14/

Thanksgiving Flash Jigsaw Game

http://www.alighthouse.com/flashgames/novpuzzle.html

Calvin & Hobbes + Bleachers - Tuesday

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2007/11/13/

http://www.gocomics.com/inthebleachers/2007/11/13/

Amazing kid

http://www.sonnyradio.com/kylelograsso.html

Coconut Cake - and others

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/taste/stories/DN-nf_coconutcake_1107liv.State.Edition1.518a713.html

See the link for other cake recipes.

Do You Support Torture?

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/DOJ/story?id=3814076

Why do we confirm Michael Mukasey as Attorney General if he will not call water-boarding torture?

Do we still have morals in this country?

Religious Coalition Urges Clear Rejection of Torture
http://www.ethicsdaily.com/article_detail.cfm?AID=9668

Yet Another Torture Memo Uncovered
http://mainstreambaptist.blogspot.com/2007/11/yet-another-torture-memo-uncovered.html

The presidency is now a criminal conspiracy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21644133/

Calvin & Hobbes - Sunday & Monday

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2007/11/11/

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2007/11/12/

A keeper

Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends lived barely a wave away. I can see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress , lawn mower in one hand, and dish-towel in the other. It was the time for fixing things. A curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress. Things we keep.

It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy. All that re-fixing, eating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more.

But then my mother died, and on that clear summer's night, in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any more.

Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...never to return. So... While we have it... it's best we love it... And care for it.... And fix it when it's broken..... And heal it when it's sick.

This is true... For marriage.... And old cars.... And children with bad report cards..... Dogs and cats with bad hips.... And aging parents.... And grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it. Some things we keep. Like a best friend that moved away or a classmate we grew up with.

There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special.... And so, we keep them close!

Why God Made Moms

WHY GOD MADE MOMS

Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:

Why did God make mothers?

1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.

2. Mostly to clean the house.

3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?

1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.

2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.

3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of ?

1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.

2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?

1. We're related.

2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your mom?

1. My Mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.

2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.

3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?

1. His last name.

2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?

3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your mom marry your dad?

1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.

2. She got too old to do anything else with him.

3. My grandma says that Mom didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?

1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goof ball.

2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.

3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between moms &a

mp; dads?

1. Moms work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.

2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.

3. Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power 'cause that's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.

4. Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mom do in her spare time?

1. Mothers don't do spare time.

2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?

1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.

2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?

1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.

2. I'd make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.

3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.