Seeing

 

Thought this fit my mood today...

 

"We don't see things as they are.  We see things as we are."

     ~ Anais Nin ~

quotes about dogs

     

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
-Anonymous

    

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. -Ben Williams

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.-Josh Billings

The average dog is nicer than the average person. -Andy Rooney

       

Dogs love their friends & bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love & always have to mix love & hate.

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.-Franklin P. Jones

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras

If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.
-Phil Pastoret

     

and my favorite...

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-Robert A. Heinlein

 

 

Tags: dogs

jokes

 

Forgiveness

 

Toward the end of Sunday service, the Minister asked, “How many of you have forgiven your enemies?”

80% held up their hands.

The Minister then repeated his question.

All responded this time, except one small elderly lady.

 

“Mrs. Jones?” “Are you not willing to forgive your enemies?”

“I don’t have any.” She replied, smiling sweetly.

“Mrs. Jones, that is very unusual. How old are you?”

“Ninety-eight.” she replied.

“Oh Mrs. Jones, would you please come down in front & tell us all how a person can live ninety-eight years & not have an enemy in the world?”

The little sweetheart of a lady tottered down the aisle, faced the congregation, and said: “I outlived the bitches.”

 

 

 LOVE A DRUNK …

A man and his wife are awakened at 3 o’clock in the morning by a loud pounding on the door. The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger, standing in the pouring rain, is asking for a push.

“Not a chance,” says the husband. “It is 3 o’clock in the morning.” He slams the door and returns to bed.

“Who was that?” asked his wife. “Just some drunk guy asking for a push!”

“Did you help him?” she asks. “No. I did not. It is 3 o’clock in the morning and it is pouring rain outside!”

His wife said, “Can’t you remember about three months ago when we broke down and those two guys helped us? You should be ashamed of yourself!”

The man reluctantly gets dressed and goes out into the pouring rain.

He calls out into the dark, “Hello. Are you still there?”

“Yes,” comes back the answer.

“Do you still need a push?” calls out the husband.

“Yes! Please!” comes the reply from the darkness.

“Where are you?” asks the husband.

“Over here on the swing!” replies the drunk

Tags: jokes

Thought this was interesting

 

Have you ever:

Given anyone a bath: yes
Smoked: yes
Bungee jumped: NO WAY
Made yourself throw-up: no
Gone skinny dipping: yes
Eaten a dog: HOPEFULLY NOT (have to agree)
Put your tongue on a frozen pole: no
Loved someone so much it made you cry? yes
Played truth or dare: yes
Been in a physical fight: yes
Been in a police car: yes
Been on a plane: yes
Come close to dying: pretty damn close
swam in the ocean: yes
Fallen asleep in school: yes
Ran away? no (does wanting to count?)
Cried when someone died: yes
Cried in school: yes
Fell off your chair: yes
Sat by the phone all night waiting for someone to call?: yes
Saved AIM conversations: yes
Saved e-mails: yes
Used someone: yes

 

snagged from:  I might have lost my mind, but I'm on the way to finding my soul.

 

 

Paints a different picture of me.......

Tags: questions, flamingos

Happy Fairy

                                    

 

thought... of him

"...See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo.  It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me."

                             ~ Gretchen Kemp ~              

Happy Mother's Day

 

Someone said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you've had a baby...

Somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, "normal" is history.

Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct...

Somebody never took a 3 year old shopping...

Somebody said being a mother is boring...

Somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's permit.

Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child will "turn out good"...

Somebody thinks a child comes with directions & a guarantee.

Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices...

Somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her child hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window.

Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother...

Somebody never helped a fourth grader with her math.

Somebody said you can't love the third child as much as you love the first...

Somebody doesn't have three children.

Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing questions in books...

Somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose or in his ears.

Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor & delivery...

Somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten or on a plane headed for military boot camp.

Somebody said a mother <SPAN id=sp-3 title=" scan" style="BACKGROUND: url(undefinedimages/bg_spellingErr.gif) yellow repeat-x left bottom; PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px; COLOR: #000" _backupTitle="null"> do her job eyes closed & one hand tied behind her back...

Somebody never organized giggling daisies, brownies, juniors, cadets & seniors to sell cookies.

Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married...

Somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heart strings.

Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home...

Somebody never had grandchildren.

Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her...

Somebody isn't a mother.

                                  

Tags: mother's day, mothers, children

Received in an email today......

Mothers This is for the mothers who have sat up all night with sick toddlers in their arms, wiping up barf laced with Oscar Mayer wieners and cherry Kool-Aid saying, "It's okay honey, Mommy's here." Who have sat in rocking chairs for hours on end soothing crying babies who can't be comforted. This is for all the mothers who show up at work with spit-up in their hair and milk stains on their blouses and diapers in their purse. For all the mothers who run carpools and make cookies and sew Halloween costumes. And all the mothers who DON'T. This is for the mothers who gave birth to babies they'll never see. And the mothers who took those babies and gave them homes.

Thought today

"Follow your heart, it knows what to do."

           ~ unknown ~

 

No, it doesn't!!!  It knows what it wants, but not how to do it!  Not only do I need a manual on raising my kids, but I need one for myself!!!

Tags: heart, manual

Kids

 

"If I hadn't had children, I probably would have had more money & material things. I probably would have gone more places, gotten more sleep, pampered myself more. My life would have been much more boring & predictable. As a result of being a parent, I have laughed harder, cried more often. I have worried more & hurried more. I've had less sleep, but somehow I've had more fun. I'ved learned more, grown more. My heart has ached harder & I've loved to a capacity beyond my imagination. I've given more of myself, but I've derived more meaning from life."

         ~ Marianne Neifert, MD ~

Tags: kids, parents

Reflections of Today

"You're not the first person who was ever confused, frightened or even sickened by human behavior ... You'll learn from them, if you want to.  Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn ... from you.  It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement."

      ~ from J.D. Salinger's - The Catcher in the Rye ~

 

I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice.  Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice."

~ Millicent Fenwick, US Diplomat, Congresswoman ~