Be good to your mother. You only get one.

Unless you're Heather, who has two mommies.

Happy Mother's Day to all maternal lizardettes.

Your Governor is sad; you used his new bad word.

Happy Mothers Day to all the LGF moms!

Especially you, Mama Winger!

As someone who's mother has passed away- I ask all of you to cherish yours. She is irreplaceable.

re: #2 Occasional Reader

Happy Mother's Day to all maternal lizardettes.

To the moms anong us, I second the best wishes!

Poem from my son Hayden, age 9:

My Mother

Beautiful and sweet like roses.
Fun and friendly,
That's some joy,
I depend on her like a hero,
She is the most important person to me,
Her beautiful blonde hair is like a lion's mane.

Hayden

I must be doing something right. - DT

Love

Yes. Happy Mothers' Day to all you Moms.

Honour and Respect the,. Always.

Mr. DT is shivering in bed with Lymes, poor guy. Already started his antibiotics so he should be on the mend, soon.

Whoops. That'll learn me to preview.

Honour and Respect THEM. Always.

Tribute by Sir Paul McCartney - to Mothers

Lady Madonna

My 4 year old son made me a paper flower today in Sunday School. :) The daughter and I are sick, but pulling ourselves together to eat with the guys; my hubby, 18 yo son and the 4 yo. And it's a beautiful day, sunny and 70s. God is good.

Happy Mother's Day, all you lizard moms.

Wishing all of the lizard moms a wonderderful Mothers Day!

re: #9 Nene1

Hear, hear! Honour and respect the comma!

:P

Prayers for all those in Missouri and Oklahoma.

Happy Mother's Day to all you moms in lizardland!

re: #5 Sharmuta

As someone who's mother has passed away- I ask all of you to cherish yours. She is irreplaceable.

The pain never really leaves, Sharm....you are so right. It is, for me, as a mother and grandmother, a bittersweet day....25 years since I lost mine.

Six years ago August I lost my mom. Sure miss her.

localy we lost a couple 16 year old girls in a car wreck last night
prayers for the moms

Just off the phone with my Mom. Doing fine, just got back from church. She is going out with her red hat ladies this week. Happy Mother's Day to all Lizard Moms! And special kind wishes to the Mom of our esteemed host, Charles.

re: #14 Pvt Bin Jammin

Wishing all of the lizard moms a wonderderful Mothers Day!

You ought to see a therapist about that stututteter.

re: #13 gop_patriot

My 4 year old son made me a paper flower today in Sunday School. :) The daughter and I are sick, but pulling ourselves together to eat with the guys; my hubby, 18 yo son and the 4 yo. And it's a beautiful day, sunny and 70s. God is good.

Happy Mother's Day, all you lizard moms.

God is Good. And happy Mothers Day to all. I love my Mother and my Wife.

Some quotes for Mother’s Day:

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~John Wilmot

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ~Lawrence Housman

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray

I wonder is Michelle Obama was ever really proud of her mother in her adult life?

I'm just sayin'.

re: #18 NY Nana

Happy Mothers Day, Nana.
The torch gets passed on.

re: #24 rightymouse

Great quotes! Thanks! :)

re: #14 Pvt Bin Jammin

Happy Mothers Day PBJ!

re: #18 NY Nana

Happy Mothers Day Nana!

More quotes:

Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
T. DeWitt Talmage

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
Tenneva Jordan

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”~ Mark Twain

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
~ David O. McKay

“Healthy families are our greatest national resource.”
~ Dolores Curran

Any of you male lizards who have brothers might be able to identify with this....

re: #24 rightymouse

Some quotes for Mother’s Day:

ROFLMAO!
Thanks!

re: #27 gop_patriot

Great quotes! Thanks! :)

You're welcome... :)

I'm hungry!

MA! HOW ABOUT SOME MEATLOAF OUT HERE?

Oh, right, Ma's in another State... dang.

re: #20 hayseed

That is heartbreaking. Will be praying for their families. :(

re: #18 NY Nana

Life is fleeting. Love and be loved while life allows. I'm glad my mother did- for here I am.

Many, many years ago I was born on a Mother's day.
Every now and then my birthday is also on one.....but not this year.

re: #36 mean Gene

Many, many years ago I was born on a Mother's day.
Every now and then my birthday is also on one.....but not this year.

My twin boys as well, May 10.

re: #31 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You're welcome too. :)

re: #20 hayseed

localy we lost a couple 16 year old girls in a car wreck last night
prayers for the moms

Oh, dear. :(

Can't imagine what it would be like to lose a child. Don't want to know either. You'd have to lock me up in a padded cell.

Me: "Mom, what does blood taste like?"

Mom: "Shut up kid and eat yer soup before it clots"

/ahhh mom...

re: #30 NY Nana

Any of you male lizards who have brothers might be able to identify with this....

HAHAHAHAHA! I'd forgotten about that one. Hilarious! :)

re: #5 Sharmuta

As someone who's mother has passed away- I ask all of you to cherish yours. She is irreplaceable.

Likewise.

Mom logic: "If you break your leg falling out of that tree, don't come running to me for sympathy."
Mom's 'Circle of Life" philosophy: "I brought you into this world, and if you keep doing that I will take you out of it!"
Maternal senses: "I heard that look."

re: #39 rightymouse

Oh, dear. :(

Can't imagine what it would be like to lose a child. Don't want to know either. You'd have to lock me up in a padded cell.

my mom lost 2 daughters...she really never did recover. she is now re-united in heaven with my sisters.

re: #44 hayseed

(((hayseed))) I can't even imagine.

re: #21 rawmuse
"And special kind wishes to the Mom of our esteemed host, Charles."
AMEN.

I am lucky enough to still have a mom, a MIL (yes! We're close!), and be a mom. This is a special day for me.

But I never forget the moms like those Hayseed (#20) references. The moms of the troops who have died. The moms who are struggling with their children through deadly disease. The ones who have lost their kids to abduction or abuse.

I'm so thankful for what I have and what I haven't lost. Prayers for the moms who might look upon this day with pain or bitterness. May they find peace.

re: #42 ted

My sympathies ted, and to Nana and all the motherless Lizards.

Which Lizard moms have spawned the most offspring? I'll nominate myself at 9 (& 20 grandlizards)

Dedicated to Lizard moms everywhere!

Death of a Nation

The last few days have been a brutal lesson in the limits of soft power. The overthrow of the legitimate government of Lebanon, coupled with Iran's refusal to negotiate on its nuclear program conclusively demonstrate the price of appeasing totalitarian dictators. The best way to communicate with such peopeople, is to shove a gun in their face.

The Iranians and Syrians bought off the leadership of the Lebanese Armed Forces; the elected government of Lebanon were operating in a vacuum and did not even know it. The failure of the United States and Western powers not to stand by a sister democracy is a shameful abdication of our moral responsibility to the international community.

Having just elected themselves masters of Lebanon at gunpoint, Iran and Syria will impose their will into every corner of the country. They can drive away the Christians and Druze people in a matter of weeks. Within a few months, they can alter the demographic picture of Lebanon sufficiently claim political majority over the nation. If people don't show up to vote, even though under threat to one's very life, you get the last and only election necessary to determine Lebanon's future forever.

Give the Hezbollah credit for very quick bold actions to create an entire new reality in the Middle East. Even the Israelis were caught flat-footed and they pride themselves on knowing what is going on. We are witnessing the birth of the new rogue nation. The idea of Hezbollah sitting as a equal nation in the General assembly of the United Nations ought to sicken anyone who loves freedom and truth as foundational principles of human poltiical organization even more than the current liars, crooks and ne,er do wells.

Absent drastic measures, Hezbollah will consolidate control and become what even Al Qaeda never had in Afghanistan prior to 2001: a terror organization with its own state. Osama had to pay to stay and ask permission, Hezbollah has carte blache.

The only thing the US and the West can do is issue an ultimatum demanding an immediate return to the previous status quo in Lebanon and the unconditional implementation of UNSC 1559 and 1701. The first resolution required Syria to get out of Lebanon and the second called for banning shipments of weaponry to anyone other than the legitimate government of Lebanon. Both of these resolutions have been brazenly breached by Iran and Syria through their proxy, Hezbollah. The demand should have short time table and the threat of force behind it.

The takeover of Lebanon is a slap in the face of the international community by Iran and Syria. Endless entreaties for them to conform to international norms, much less give up their nuclear weapons program, not just fell on deaf ears, but were seen as weakness inviting attack. These animals went right for freedom's throat. You will not see a multicultural parliamentary democracy come out of this week's events: no, the Lebanese are now subjects of an Islamist police state. Freedom in Lebanon is dead.

From Israel's perspective, the prospect of a Hezbollah government in Lebanon is far worse a headache than the Hamas disaster in Gaza. Unlike the small and easy to cut off territory of Gaza, Lebanon is a large country with many ports and, heaven help us all, an international Airport. Beginning immediately, there are no controls whatsoever on what can and will be brought in to Lebanon by Hezbollah and its sponsors. Given Hezbollah's control of Lebanon entails unacceptable risk to Israel's national security.

A democratic nation died in a matter of hours. It's death was nothing less an act of war. It's death is certain to lead to yet a bigger war. If you ever wondered what would happen if a group of criminal barbarian, terrorists an psychopaths ever seized control over an entire country, you're about to find out.

re: #36 mean Gene

Many, many years ago I was born on a Mother's day.
Every now and then my birthday is also on one.....but not this year.

Me too! Mine is the 12th.

re: #44 hayseed

my mom lost 2 daughters...she really never did recover. she is now re-united in heaven with my sisters.

Och...tears for you...

re: #22 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You ought to see a therapist about that stututteter.

P-P-P-PIMF. LOL

Happy Mom's day to all moms. Mom is the toughest job of all.

re: #49 Alouette

Does closeness in age count? :) --of my 7, they were all born within 7 1/2 years.......and the 6th was born when the oldest was still a month away from entering kindergarten..... :)
They're starting to give me grandchildren now.....the middle one will have their 5th child in Dec. (their oldest just turned 6); the middle daughter just gave birth to her 2nd, in March (eldest turned 2 in Jan.); and one of the twins had their first child at Thanksgiving..... :) I am rich.

Mom passed at 46 years, Dad 2 years later at 50 years.

re: #56 usmc1968

Hi there!

Happy Mom's Day to all Lizard Mom's!

I wholeheartedly concur with Sharm and others - If your Ma is still with you, cherish her like there's no tomorrow. I lost mine last year around this time, and it's left a huge void in my life that's hard to fill. A bitter-sweet day, for Cartman. Otherwise, I'm at peace knowing that she's blissful and whole, and that I have so many great memories to hold on to. Until we meet again, Ma!

re: #56 usmc1968

Hi.

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

(One has to be old enough to remember Jack Benny to get this one in print -- i.e., not in-person/visual.)

How many mothers does it take to change a light bulb?

... None ...

The teller assumes J.B.'s put-upon martyrdom pose, sighs and intones:

... "I'll just sit in the dark."

re: #26 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Happy Mothers Day, Nana.
The torch gets passed on.

Thank you...It does indeed get passed on, and it rests very nicely in the hands of my daughter, who has a 19 month old son!

We have been put into isolation by the family...NY Grampa and I have a virus who's medical name is 'party pooperus nastium'™

Waaaah.

re: #56 usmc1968

Nice to see you.

They were so young! My mom was sixty four when she passed away. Dad made it to 79. There is rarely a day that goes by that I don't think of them

re: #28 DesertSage

Thanks, Sage!

A favorite Mothers Day song from the disco days.

You realize that if you haven't talked with your mom yet today, she's either periodically looking over at the phone or standing with her hands on her hips while tapping the floor with one foot.

Stop reading this and go call her. It just takes a couple minutes. You don't have to say anything. She will do all the talking. After you say goodbye, she will immediately call her friends and sisters and tell them what a great kid you are (the veracity of which is irrelevant). Do it for your mom. You'll be glad that you did.

re: #56 usmc1968

Update, please? You don't know HOW we've missed you!

Be good to your mother. You only get one.

— Stinky Beaumont

Amen!

My mom died last December and it was quite hard on me.

I sat on the bed where she died and lived on the past few years...I was crying...

Yep, we got only one mom....

re: #56 usmc1968 Hey Marine - good to see you out here; very sorry to hear about your Mom and your Dad's passing.

re: #55 Ma Sands

Does closeness in age count? :) --of my 7, they were all born within 7 1/2 years.......and the 6th was born when the oldest was still a month away from entering kindergarten..... :)
They're starting to give me grandchildren now.....the middle one will have their 5th child in Dec. (their oldest just turned 6); the middle daughter just gave birth to her 2nd, in March (eldest turned 2 in Jan.); and one of the twins had their first child at Thanksgiving..... :) I am rich.

No other hobbies in your family?

re: #61 NY Nana

LOL!

My mom passed away 17 years ago. I just called my daughter to wish her a HMD.

re: #63 NY Nana
Happy Mothers Day, Nana. I've been thinking of you.

I have a bug of some type also. Planning a trip on Thursday to my sister's place but if I'm not well I can't expose them to anything as my BIL has COPD. :(

re: #49 Alouette

Which Lizard moms have spawned the most offspring? I'll nominate myself at 9 (& 20 grandlizards)

You win! Mazel tov!

{ { {Psaturn} } }

re: #56 usmc1968

Just curious ... what does the "1968" stand for?

re: #28 DesertSage
Thank you, Sage.

re: #65 rwmofo

You realize that if you haven't talked with your mom yet today, she's either periodically looking over at the phone or standing with her hands on her hips while tapping the floor with one foot.

Stop reading this and go call her. It just takes a couple minutes. You don't have to say anything. She will do all the talking. After you say goodbye, she will immediately call her friends and sisters and tell them what a great kid you are (the veracity of which is irrelevant). Do it for your mom. You'll be glad that you did.

Unless she has Alzheimer's and does not know who you are, is afraid to talk on the phone and if she even would get n the phone the call would confuse and upset her - we are not all in the same situation

re: #69 debutaunt

You wouldn't believe how rich and varied are the accomplishments of each member of my family..... :) I am still learning worlds from them! :) --they all take after their Grandfather, my Dad, who was an inveterate starter of newspapers to break up monopolies, lower taxes, fight "the killing of babies in the first stages of life"..... :)

re: #66 Ma Sands

I'm persuaded to believe that I'll make it, if not in this world then certainly in the next.

"Faith, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"

re: #74 pre-Boomer Marine brat He served in Vietnam in 1968. His avatar is the Silver Star.

re: #79 realwest

He served in Vietnam in 1968. His avatar is the Silver Star.

Thanks.

re: #74 pre-Boomer Marine brat

That's when I was in Vietnam. Got there January 10th 5 days after my 18th birthday. Went in at 17.

re: #77 Ma Sands

You wouldn't believe how rich and varied are the accomplishments of each member of my family..... :) I am still learning worlds from them! :) --they all take after their Grandfather, my Dad, who was an inveterate starter of newspapers to break up monopolies, lower taxes, fight "the killing of babies in the first stages of life"..... :)

Life is absolutely grand!

re: #79 realwest

Hey RW! Wish your mother a Happy Mothers Day and give her a big hug for me...OK.

re: #76 LindaMarie
{Linda Marie}

So sorry to hear that. One of my dear friends has alzheimers, though luckily she still knows me.

re: #56 usmc1968

I am dancing! And singing in my heart. :) What a lovely Mother's Day gift, to see you here! :)

re: #83 DesertSage absolutely will do my friend!
And thank you.

re: #70 pre-Boomer Marine brat

LOL!

My mom passed away 17 years ago. I just called my daughter to wish her a HMD.

My Mum died 15 days before my Dad 25 years ago in March...I am an 'only'...so many memories today, so many. I really miss having the kids and grandkids here today, but also have been getting and making phone calls...and the 5 year old granddaughter did exactly what the 8 year old did when she called the other day..said 'Hello, Grampa! Can I please speak to Nana?' when she heard me. *sigh* Laryngitis will do that! ;)

Here is is Mother's Day, and NY Grampa gets the gift! I can't really talk, but am at least just past the Kermit the Frog stage.

Does Alouette get a medal, BTW?

re: #76 LindaMarie

I'm sorry to hear that. My mom has been gone a few years and I was just reminding the small percentage of people who don't realize how important it is to their moms just to give them a call - while they still can.

re: #85 Ma Sands

I thank you from my heart.

re: #81 usmc1968

That's when I was in Vietnam. Got there January 10th 5 days after my 18th birthday. Went in at 17.

Thanks. I had a hunch it had to do with Vietnam.

I was Navy, '62-'66, Tonkin Gulf.

Dad was Old Corps, joined in '39, retired in '65.

I have a question, was I created or did I evolve?

/ducks and runs real fast.

re: #90 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Go Navy, I love you guys.

re: #88 rwmofo

its OK or as OK as it can be. I am rather tired and cranky, none of which is your fault, so I apologize for my abrupt response

re: #87 NY Nana

Laryngitis

Let's hope you quit all this frogging around real soon!

re: #94 pre-Boomer Marine brat Oh, that was sooooo bad! LOL!

Good afternoon Real

re: #92 usmc1968

Go Navy, I love you guys.

I wanted to learn a trade in the service. Dad, who received one of the first 50 (meritorious) promotions to E-8 when they created it, told me not to join the Corps. Said if I had a degree in medicine and they needed cooks this week, I'd be made a cook.

A guy I went to high school with was the top kick at the Beruit barracks. I think about that, and my choice of service, at times.

re: #58 Cartman

That's a beautiful sentiment. I lost my grandfather this time last year- my mother's father. After the funeral- they both spoke to me and told me it would be okay. They were very happy to be with each other again, so yes- until we meet again, {Mom}.

re: #95 realwest

Oh, that was sooooo bad! LOL!

Nana's been so afflicted because she's a conformist ... she toad the line.

re: #5 Sharmuta

May she rest in peace. God bless her soul

re: #97 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Your Dad was correct. Navy Coremen looked after us. What a wonderful and BRAVE bunch of men.

re: #96 BBev Hey hi there my friend! I thought you'd ducked and ran for cover! LOL!
Hope you're burns are healing ok and, iirc, someone owes me an e-mail?! When you get the chance!

re: #102 realwest

I'll go check. The burns are doing well but I hate the stuff I have to put on the.

re: #71 Pvt Bin Jammin

Happy Mother's Day to you! I have been in a funk...a friend since we were 11 (nearly 60 years) and her husband came over for a week from London, and stayed with their daughter, who has been assigned here by her bank, and they came here Wed. afternoon, and we were remembering so many things..we are like family, and when they left that night, my husband drove them to the local train station...I sat here weeping, as I realize that it is probably the last time we will see each other. Their daughter called earlier to wish me a happy Mother's Day, and when I told her? Her Mum was weeping on the train. Our kids are very close in age, and are all friend. Her Mum called us her twins seperated by an ocean at birth...we are 3 weeks apart in age.

The daughter will be here next Sunday for our belated double birthday party for NY Grampa and the now 8 year old granddaughter, and Mother's Day.

Feel better! We did not pick the right time to be sick, did we?

Without the family here, it is a very bittersweet day...

{{{ Pvt Bin Jammin }}}

re: #101 usmc1968
I'm still praying for you and hope my prayers are answered.
Be as kind to yourself as you can be.

Happy Mother's Day to my fellow lizard moms, and to all the moms of lizards. Twenty-one years ago on Mother's Day, I brought home my first child. She and her brother and sister are the best kids a mom could ask for. I am truly blessed.

re: #101 usmc1968

Yes, I can understand a grunt's perspective on corpsmen. (No put-down intended in that term. A Marine rifleman is ... well, there is no better.)

re: #94 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Let's hope you quit all this frogging around real soon!

Gribbit!

re: #100 abu lahab

Thank you- that's very kind of you, and I appreciate it much.

re: #108 NY Nana

Gribbit!

LOVE IT!
(especially as a huge fan of the Muppets!)

Well it's been grand as usual all y'all - but I have to go start fixing dinner for my Mom!
I hope you all have a great day and that I get the chance to see you down the road.

re: #91 BBev

I have a question, was I created or did I evolve?

Only The Shadow knows!

To all of you Spartan Lizard Mothers.
"Only Spartan Lizard Mothers birth , real hatch lings."

re: #110 pre-Boomer Marine brat

LOVE IT!
(especially as a huge fan of the Muppets!)

So do I, as it broke me up, and the best part is that I watched The Muppets with my 4, and now do with my 3 grandkids.

Here's a Mother's Day prayer that all the OK and MO lizards are well and safe at home, and another that those who have been harmed in the storms will receive swift help, care and comfort from those around them.

re: #115 cookielady

Are YOU alright? That river swelling much?

re: #114 NY Nana

So do I, as it broke me up, and the best part is that I watched The Muppets with my 4, and now do with my 3 grandkids.

OH! OUCH! My sides hurt!
I never saw that one! CLASSIC!
Henson and company handled it with a subtlety just right for Borge.

re: #116 Ma Sands

We are all well here. Ol' Mizery is high, but not out too far. All the tributaries are building steam, however, so we are watching closely. Now, my house is high on the hills of the town, so if it gets here, we'd better be building new arks, LOL!

Rain, rain, go away... the drought is long gone and we'd like to play!

May God bless you richly today and every day, dear Ma!

Happy Mothers Day
A young boy said to his mother, 'How old were you when I was born?' His mother replied, '23.' 'Wow, that's a lot of time we missed spending together.'

re: #118 cookielady

Ah. Thanks! Good to know you are on a hill. I will rest easy now...........knowing that in trouble, the unfortunate can climb the hill and take refuge with you and eat COOKIES to their hearts' healing..... :)

When we were kids, my sister used to look at me and ask
"I wonder what your biological parents are doing now?"

re: #30 NY Nana

I just posted that. Sorry I didn't notice it has already been there.

re: #104 NY Nana
{Nana} Thank you. I had a telephone call so just saw your post, sorry. So glad you got to see your friend. I'll bet you will see her again after all.

No we sure didn't pick the right time to be sick, that's for sure. Our daughter is coming to see me anyway and bringing me a cold fighting kit. We were suppossed to go to the Farmers Market in Los Angeles but unless the sun comes out pretty soon I doubt if I will want to go. We'll see. I really don't feel too bad but I've definately come down with something.

It's kinda funny, the things you remember on Mother's Day. As I was making breakfast for my guests this morning, enveloped with the delicious and savory smells of eggy casseroles and crisp bacon and sweet cinnamon bread, I suddenly flashed back to one Mother's Day morning when I strove mightily to provide breakfast in bed for my own mom. Let me tell you, the smells (and the sights) were very different then! Looking back, I wonder how my mother could smile and thank me and actually even eat some of that ick-on-a-plate, all the while knowing she would have to clean up at least some of the mess I had made in my efforts. She was always compassionate enough to be effusive in her compliments and sneaky about disposal.

Mothers. The good ones are treasures.