Thanks Zeffy. I always have my father & his brothers & brothers-in-law, the whole generation really, on my mind at this time of year & again on Veteran's Day, Pearl Harbor Day... Daddy was in the US Army, serving at Anzio & North Africa. He never talked seriously about it, always made jokes about laying telephone line & his buddies playing jokes on each other. I never even knew he was at Anzio until I got a copy of his records, too late, long after he was gone.

I hope that no matter how little or old your children are, that you know they are a gift of God. As old as I am, I have seen many children go through so many stages....and in the end...it is still someones child and should be loved. Because without them...we would not celebrate mother's day :-) Lucy To all non mom's goes a big hug also.

Thank you Jeff - this is so true! Thanks for posting. Frances

The next piece of good news is that a vet would be willing to treat the dog's injuries and base their fees on just covering expenses. That's how I got my best ever cat of all time. My d-i-l's grandmother was at her church helping other homemakers to prepare a meal for a church function and a tiny tabby kitten came to the back door insistently and demanded in. They only had a dish of oatmeal handy and fed it to the waif. The story got passed along to me third-hand. I was wanting a kitten and said I'd be interested in adopting it. By the time I got the call the kitten was already in route to the animal shelter. I got in my car and drove there immediately and was present when it arrived. I was told I'd have to wait for it to go through intake. I was there again the day it went up for adoption. When I went back to the cages where they had multiple kittens in each cage, the tech kept trying to give me the fancy ones as the little silver short haired tabby kept being overlooked. I pointed out which one I wanted, and the tech was flabberghasted I'd choose 'that one'. She ended up being an oriental mix and one of the most beautiful cats ever and she knew somehow I had waited patiently for her and repaid me with such love and loyalty for the next sixteen years. She was at my side constantly, and slept on my chest at night, and rode around on my shoulders in the day, and curled up to me when I sat. She even lay on my computer desk when I was online. My most wonderful cat ever....and she came from a church.