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Fun & Games
For my Mother
(In Loving Memory)
Mornings in our Garden
as my mother lifts the Soil
The smell of broken earth
and a sense of the past
Rise into the mist
like gauze around her
She plants the noise of birds
the movement of wind
So those she left may return and speak
in familiar words of all she's lost
I touch her moist face and and she turns to me
I lean into her arms
The sound of wings, and of voices
The figures of light and behind us the earth
like an open hand,
I LOVE YOU MOTHER
Copyrighted 1970 by T Gordon
Happy Mother's Day
To all my WOSIB sisters, a Happy Mother's Day to all. Mother's Day has
always been a time to reflect on the years, of growing up without my
Mother. My mother died shortly before I was 6 years old, as an adopted
child, I only had her for 4 years, but the memories that I hold with me
are memories, that I have passed on to my own children, and
grandchildren. As I have grown older, and now have grandchildren, I reflect upon
the 3 children that I have raised. Through all the bad times, and good
times, I hold my children, very dear to my heart, and with
grandchildren, running around, laughing and playing, I thank God, for the 4 years,
that I did have my mother with me. And as the cool May breeze flows,
and the butterflies, dancing around, I smell the lilacs, and lavender
beginning to bloom, and it brings me back 44 years ago, to the Mother's
Day that I said my last good bye. I know now that I have a true Angel
watching over, my children, and grandchildren, and all I can do is
smile, and softly whisper, Thank you Mother, and I love you.
Teena (luvzbluez)
Mother's Day Facts and Trivia
Mothers Day Trivia: Most Surviving Children
Bobbie McCaughey is the mother who holds the record for the most
surviving children from a single birth. She gave birth to the first set of
surviving septuplets - four boys and three girls -on November 19, 1997,
at the University Hospital, Iowa, US. Conceived by in vitro
fertilization, the babies were delivered after 31 weeks by cesarean in the space of
16 minutes. The babies are named Kenneth, Nathaniel, Brandon, Joel,
Kelsey, Natalie and Alexis
Mothers Day Trivia: Highest Recorded Number of Children
The highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother
is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya,
Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth
to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of
quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy.
Mothers Day Trivia: On Women and Motherhood
24.8 is the median age of women when they give birth for the first time
- meaning one-half are above this age and one-half are below. The
median age has risen nearly three years since 1970.
A woman becomes pregnant most easily at the age of eighteen or
nineteen, with little real change until the mid twenties. There is then a slow
decline to age thirty-five, a sharper decline to age forty-five and a
very rapid decline as the women nears menopause.
The odds of a woman delivering twins is 1-in-33. Her odds of having
triplets or other multiple births was approximately 1-in-539.
When the female embryo is only six weeks old, it makes preparations for
her motherhood by developing egg cells for future offspring. (When the
baby girl is born, each of her ovaries carries about a million egg
cells, all that she will ever have).
August is the most popular month in which to have a baby, with more
than 360,000 births taking place that month in 2001.
Mothers Day Trivia: Strange But True about Celebrity Moms and Kids
Katherine Hepburn's father was a surgeon and her mother was a
dedicated suffragette and early crusader for birth control.
Elvis Presley, was a mama's boy. He slept in the same bed with
his mother, Gladys, until he reached puberty. Up until Elvis entered
high school, she walked him back and forth to school every day and made
him take along his own silverware so that he wouldn't catch germs from
the other kids. Gladys forbade young Elvis from going swimming or doing
anything that might put him in danger. The two of them also conversed in
a strange baby talk that only they could understand.
Many of the sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on the popular
television show, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, were actually knitted by his real
mother.
Eric Clapton was born to an unwed mother and to shield him from
the shame, Eric grew up believing that his grandparents were his
parents and his mother was his sister.
A BIG Thank you goes out to Cathiezoo2 she is our winner
in last month's flower and egg search contest. Cathie, if you will
drop me a line, I will personalize one of the egg's for you. Thanks again
for participating.
In Honor of Mother's Day, here is a little quiz.
Can you tell me who the famous mother is for each one of these famous
daughters? Just send me your answers, and look for the winning entry
next month in the Fun and Games Section.
Carrie Fisher
Erin Hamilton
Jamie Lee Curtis
Joely Fisher
Laura Dern
Lorna Luft
Mariska Harqitay
Melanie Griffith
Kate Hudson
Gwyneth Paltrow
Have fun, and we will see you next Month!!
Luvzbluez
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