The following are different answers given by young school-age
children to the given questions:

Why did God make mothers?

1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Think about it, it was the best way to get more people.
3. Mostly to clean the house and cook.
4. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?

1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. He made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other Mom?

1. We're related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your Mom?

1. My Mom has always been my Mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

Why did your Mom marry your dad?

1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mom didn't have her thinking cap on.

What makes a real woman?

1. It means you have to be really bossy without looking bossy.

Who's the boss at your house?

1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goofball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between moms and dads?

1. Moms work at work and work at home, and dads just got to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller and stronger, but moms have all the real power cause that's
who you gotta ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.

What does your Mom do in her spare time?

1. Mothers don't do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What's the difference between moms and grandmas?

1. About 30 years.
2. You can always count on grandmothers for candy.

Describe the world's greatest Mom?

1. She would make broccoli taste like ice cream!
2. The greatest Mom in the world wouldn't make me kiss my fat aunts!
3. She'd always be smiling and keep her opinions to herself.

Is anything about your Mom perfect?

1. Her teeth are perfect, but she bought them from the dentist.
2. Her casserole recipes. But we hate them.
3. Just her children.

If you could change one thing about your Mom, what would it be?

1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
2. I'd make my Mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it
and not me.

I've learned....
That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
I've learned....
That we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
I've learned....
That money doesn't buy class.
I've learned....
That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
I've learned...
That under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
I've learned....
That the Lord didn't do it all in one day. What makes me think I can?
I've learned....
That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
I've learned....
That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person
continue to hurt you.
I've learned...
That love, not time, heals all wounds.
I've learned...
That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people
smarter than I am.
I've learned....
That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
I've learned....
That there's nothing sweeter than sleeping with your babies and feeling their breath
on your cheeks.
I've learned...
That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
I've learned....
That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
I've learned...
That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
I've learned....
That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
I've learned...
That I wish I could have told those I cared about that I love them one more
time before they passed away.
I've learned....
That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may
have to eat them.
I've learned....
That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
I've learned....
That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him
in some other way.
I've learned....
That being kind is more important than being right.
I've learned....
That I can't choose how I feel, but I can choose what I do about it.
I've learned....
That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs
a friend to act goofy with.
I've learned....
That when your newly born child holds your little finger in his little fist,
that you're hooked for life.
I've learned....
That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and
growth occurs while you're climbing it.
I've learned ...
That it is best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it is requested
and when it is a life threatening situation.
I've learned....
That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.

Even God enjoys a good laugh!

There were 3 good arguments that Jesus was Black:
1. He called everyone "brother".
2. He liked Gospel
3. He couldn't get a fair trial.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Jewish:
1. He went into His Father's business.
2. He lived at home until he was 33.
3. He was sure his Mother was a virgin and his mother was sure he was God.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Italian:
1. He talked with his hands.
2. He had wine with every meal.
3. He used olive oil.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was a Californian:
1. He never cut his hair.
2. He walked around barefoot all the time.
3. He started a new religion.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Irish:
1. He never got married.
2. He was always telling stories.
3. He loved green pastures.

But the most compelling evidence of all - 3 proofs that Jesus was a woman:
1. He fed a crowd at a moment's notice when there was no food.
2. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just didn't get it
3. And even when he was dead, He had to get up because there was more work to do.

Amen!!!

FACTS:

1. If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.

2. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

3. Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.

6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

8. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.

10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.

11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

12. A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.

15. No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

16. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.

19. Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.

20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.

21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.

24. Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.

25. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

my baby has been, lol... here is proof:
(photo taken during the summer of 2005, after coming back home from the pool).

FuNnY, sO fUnNy!!!

• Who Talks Too Much?
  A husband, proving to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study which indicated
  that men use on the average only 15,000 words a day, whereas women use 30,000 words a day.
  She thought about this for a while and then told her husband that women use twice as many words
  as men because they have to repeat everything they say.
  Looking stunned, he said, "What?
  
• Wise Words:
  
  Smart boss + smart employee = profit
  Smart boss + dumb employee = production
  Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
  Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
  
  A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
  A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
  
  A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
  A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
  
  A successful man is one who makes more money that his wife can spend.
  A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
  
  To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
  To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot & not try to understand her at all.
  
  Married men lived longer than single man, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
  Any married man should forget his mistakes, there's no use in two people remembering the same thing.
  
  Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
  Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
  
  A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
  A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
  
  A woman has the last word in any argument.
  Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
  

VALUES

To realize the value of ten years:
Ask a newly divorced couple.

To realize the value of four years:
Ask a graduate.

To realize the value of one year:
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.

To realize the value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.

To realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of one minute:
Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one second:
Ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.

To realize the value of a friend:
Lose one.

A REAL FRIEND:

A simple friend has never seen you cry.
A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.

A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names.
A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.

A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.
A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean.

A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.

A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.

A simple friend wonders about your romantic history.
A real friend could blackmail you with it.

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.
A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself.

A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you HAVE an argument.
A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight.

A simple friend expects you to always be there for them.
A real friend expects to always be there for you!

• Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.
  
• Birthdays are good for you; the more you have, the longer you live.
  
• If Walmart is lowering prices every day, how come nothing is free yet?
  
• You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
  
• Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.
  
• We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have
  weird names, and all are different colors.... but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
  
• A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scene on a detour.
  
• Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
  
  Have an awesome day!

"When you believe in something, no proof is neccessary,
when you don't, no proof is sufficient"

A boy was sitting on a park bench with one hand resting on an open Bible.
He was loudly exclaiming his praise to God.

"Hallelujah! Hallelujah! God is great!" he yelled without worrying whether
anyone heard him or not.

Shortly after, along came a man who had recently completed some studies at
a local university. Feeling himself very enlightened in the ways of truth
and very eager to show this enlightenment, he asked the boy about the
source of his joy.

"Hey" asked the boy in return with a bright laugh, "Don't you have any
idea what God is able to do? I just read that God opened up the waves of
the Red Sea and led the whole nation of Israel right through the middle."

The enlightened man laughed lightly, sat down next to the boy and
began to try to open his eyes to the "realities" of the miracles of the Bible.

"That can all be very easily explained. Modern scholarship has shown that
the Red Sea in that area was only 10-inches deep at that time. It was no
problem for the Israelites to wade across."

The boy was stumped. His eyes wandered from the man back to the Bible
laying open in his lap. The man, content that he had enlightened a poor,
naive young person to the finer points of scientific insight, turned to go.

Scarcely had he taken two steps when the boy began to rejoice and
praise louder than before. The man turned to ask the reason for this resumed
jubilation.

"Wow!" exclaimed the boy happily, "God is greater than I thought! Not only
did He lead the whole nation of Israel through the Red Sea, He topped it
off by drowning the whole Egyptian army in 10-inches of water!"

SIGNS YOU LIVE IN THE YEAR 2001

1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.

2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

3. You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat.
He emails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"

4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.

5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa,
but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.

6. Your mother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a
screen saver.

7. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.

8. Every commercial on television has a website address at the bottom of the screen.

9. You buy a computer and 6 months later it is out of date and now sells for half
the price you paid.

10. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 50 years
of your life, is cause for panic and you turn around to go get it.

11. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle
and take planning.

12. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.

13. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.

14. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

Cartoonized images of Samuel...

My baby's face up close!!!

FRIENDSHIP

“True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.”
 ~ Dave Tyson Gentry.

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
 ~ John Churton Collins.

“Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.”
 ~ Yasir Arafat.

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it
back to you when you have forgotten the words."
 ~ Unknown.

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go,
we take a little of each other everywhere."
 ~ Tim McGraw

"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."
 ~ Dave Matthews Band.

<"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
 Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
 Walk beside me and be my friend."
 ~ Albert Camus.

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
 ~ Walter Winchell.

2005 electronic Christmas Greeting to family, friends and customers.

These are poems sent by a good friend of mine when Samuel was born... Beautiful!

Para Samuel de tu tia Ivonne... no te olvides que tu mami y tu angel guardian siempre
estan velando por ti. Estos son poemas de Gabriela Mistral, poetiza chilena que fue la primera
escritora latinoamericana ganadora del premio Nobel de Literatura.

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused."

Cute...

• LOVE starts with a SMILE , grows with a KISS , and ends with a TEAR.
• DON'T cry over anyone who won't cry over you.
• Good FRIENDS are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
• You can only go as far as you push.
• ACTIONS speak louder than words.
• The HARDEST thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
• DON'T let the past hold you back, you're missing the good stuff.
• LIFE'S SHORT. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it.
• A BEST FRIEND is like a four leaf clover, HARD TO FIND and LUCKY TO HAVE.
• Some people make the world SPECIAL just by being in it.
• BEST FRIENDS are the siblings God forgot to give us.
• When it HURT S to look back, and you're SCARED to look ahead,
  you can look beside you and your BEST FRIEND will be there.
• TRUE FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS. Friends are FOREVER.
• Good friends are like STARS; You don't always see them,
  but you know they are ALWAYS THERE.
• DON'T frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile.
• What do you do when the only person who can make you stop
  crying is the person who made you cry?
• Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
• Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
• Most people walk in and out of your life, but only FRIENDS
  leave footprints in your heart.

This is when you know that you're driving too fast, really funny! :

HILARIOUS!!!

Here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting
medical studies.

The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.

The French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.

The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.

The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or
Americans.

The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than
the British or Americans.

CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

e·mail to Samuel from a good friend from France:

Bonjour,

je t'écris ce petit mot pour te souhaiter la bienvenue au monde.
Je vais te donner des petits conseils pourl'avenir.

D'abord ne baisse jamais la tête ni les bras, ça veiut dire que tu ne devras jamais avoir honte de ce
que tu es et que tu ne te laisseras jamais abattre par les aléas de la vie.

Ensuite, tu dois respect et obeissance à ta mère. Le respect ne doit pas se limiter à ta mère il dois
s'étendre aux gens en général mais il doit s'arrêter aux gens qui ne te respectent pas.

Enfin, veille sur ta mère et ne la fais pas pleurer, sinon tu auras affaire à moi. Car ta mère est une amie
à moi et elle est très douce et très gentile.

Il est vrai que l'on ne se connait pas, mais j'espère que la vie fera que l'on se croisera un jour. Comme
ondit il n'y a que les montagnes qui ne se croisent pas.

Sur ce je vais te quitter et je te souhaite touit le bonheur du monde; une longue, enrichissante et
agréable vie.

Syaka.

p.s.: Rosa, mes féllicitation pour ce beau bébé. Tu devrais lui faire apprendre le français quand il sera
plus grand. A plus tard.

OK, so... We have taken off our clothes... I got on top of you... how long until we start feeling good? I really don't know, but I am getting a headache! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FuNnY! It really reminds me of my first time, lol!

Cute, just adorable, .................................. ah?
and this is probably how they must feel when we
just kiss them over and over, ho, ho, how funny!

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