Happy Mother’s Day to all my fellow moms out there!

As a daughter, we all know that it’s mother’s day everyday. Where would we be without our moms? My mom has always been there for me and the greatest lesson she has taught me is how to love unconditionally. She has certainly been a great example of loving without strings for me and my sisters.

As a mom, I am awed by the enormity of motherhood and how my own mom and other moms before me coped. They are a great testimony to the power of love and how it conquers all.

Looking at my almost grown daughters, I am awed and amazed that I didn’t mess them up so badly. I am humbled and privileged that they were entrusted in my hands. How grand it is to be a part of their lives! To watch them grow and blossom and know that I somehow had a little bit to do getting them to this point, it’s an unbelievable feeling… one that I relish everyday.

None of us are perfect moms. We make mistakes and we have many stumbles along the way, but that is life. We grow right along with our children.

So to all of us who are muddling to motherhood, more power!

Motherhood is not always about giving birth to another being. It is all about loving. If you have ever loved a child, nurtured, guided and influenced a child, whether by intention or not, this tribute is for you too. For where will we moms be without the network of sisters, friends, aunts, grandmas who lend their support through their love?

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, EVERYONE!

With the increase in seemingly inane and unrelated comments that I have been getting on my blogs, I started to wonder if some of these people are getting paid. So I thought I’d look into it and what better place to start your research than Google right? I tell my kids to Google stuff all the time when I I don’t have a ready answer. lol!

Anyway, so I googled “get paid to comment on blogs” and guess what? YES! Yes, people now can earn money by leaving comments on blogs. That explains a lot. It also makes me feel better about deleting comments and blocking IPs.

When I get relevant comments, especially from other bloggers, I try to return the visit and comment on their blogs. To me, that has just been good blogging manners. Lately though, with all these spam comments and scraper blogs popping up all over the place, it’s getting harder to tell the legitimate sites from the bad ones. What’s worse is, they can negatively impact innocuous bloggers like me who are not looking to make a quick buck but have been at this blogging thing just for the sake of getting our thoughts out there in the vast, vacuum of the internet.

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I have a hard time understanding what happened, but if the word MARRIAGE is problematic, then I do not have any issues with renaming it. Call it a partnership, call it a twosome, call it a merger….. whatever. Just give ALL families the same rights and privileges as ‘traditional’ families. Why is that so hard to do? It just seems sensible to me.

Why is it so difficult to get understanding and compassion from the same people who purport to be living by the word of God?

I’m not going into the argument of what God wants and what God meant because I don’t know it just like everyone else and anyone who professes to know is lying to you. But don’t take my word on it.

It was a sad and shameful night in NC last night when Ammendment One to the state’s constitution was passed and catapulted NC among other states who have banned same-sex marriages. North Carolina’s state constitution now specifically defines a marriage to be only between one man and one woman.

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Yesterday was the 5th of May and it started out warm and sunny. My youngest daughter was yearning for some ‘alone’ time with mommy so she was up and dressed early on a Saturday, hoping that her older sister would do her usual sleeping in until afternoon and would not go with us. She did not disappoint.

So the girl and I were off early for our day out. We started out at Target because she wanted to replenish her supply of tights and net stockings. They have them at Target for just $5 each, which was just perfectly in my price range.

After shopping around, we went out to lunch, just the two of us, which is probably her favorite part of the outing, almost on equal par with the foray into Barnes & Noble.

It was late afternoon by the time we got home after additional stops at Walmart and the grocery store. The sky had darkened and was looking ominous as we unloaded the car and by the time we had put away stuff and I got dinner started, it started pouring. Not one of those light spring showers, it was the curtain of water kind of rain, making our plans to grill something in celebration of Cinco de Mayo kind of moot.

So they had their chili dogs cooked stove top and I made a quick vegetable curry out of the eggplants and cauliflower that I was going to grill.

Today, it’s still cloudy and damp outside but we’re hopeful that it will dry up enough that we can continue with our cook out plans.

How’s your weekend going?