A day in the life of President Bush (4/2/05): photos

WhiteHouse.gov; Yahoo News Photos ^ | 4/2/05

[MJY1288]

Gnite DrDeb, Sleep well,

P.S. A good shot of Brandy will make you sleep well :-))

[ohioWfan]

I guess the wind that blew through here (and finally stopped mid day today), got to you too.

It brought down some more of the branches that were still suspended after our ice storm. Now we only have a few hundred to cut down with a chainsaw..........

[ohioWfan]

It's been my husband's excuse for nearly 30 years. ;o)

Take care, Deb! Plenty of fluids and lots of rest...

[ohioWfan]

Oh, Congratulations, Michael on turning 7! Such a great age!

You're such a good Grandpa, Mike! :o)

[MJY1288]

I'm a lucky Grandpa, In babysit both of my grandsons last night and had a blast with them downloading kids games to my laptop from Cartoon network.com. Michael, who I nick named "Munchie" and Zachary had a blast. In fact, the first thing Michael asked me today at the Nature Center was.... "Pop pop, did you bring your laptop?" :-)

We feel so incredibly blessed to be young enough to play an active roll in their lives. Most grandparents can't go out and play sports with their grandchildren because of their age. I take those two boys outdoors every opportunity I can, in fact, we are going camping in mid May in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Those grandkids make me feel young again :-) I cherish every moment I spend with them :-)

[Kate of Spice Island]

[ohioWfan]

You ARE young, Mike. ;o) At least compared to me!

And I have no sign of grandchildren in the next few years.

But that's OK. I'm a patient person. :o)

[CaliforniaRichGRL]

Anyone here know anything about Doris Day or anything about her life? I heard something about her when she was younger...her being raped and I was wondering if it was true.

[MJY1288]

OWF, I remember like yesterday when our daughter told us she was pregnant. My first thought was she would have to drop out of College, and her Husband was in the Marines not making much money. My wife and I both reacted negatively at first, then it struck us that we would be Grandparents and suddenly our whole attitude changed.

Within 5 minutes, the shock and horror of our little girl being pregnant, turned into an all out celebration that found us making all kinds of plan s for that glorious day when our little girl became a Mommy. There is no greater joy

I was there when Michael was born and I was a nervous wreck, he was born at Bethesda Naval Hospitol on March 25th, 1998, I was a very proud, newly minted, Grand Dad that day :-)

[MEG33]

Thank you, Wolfstar..

[trisham]

Thanks for the pictures. I always enjoy this thread.

[GretchenM]

Congratulations on your new job. Sounds like it was made to order.

[snugs]

Hello Gretchen how are you feeling today?

[GretchenM]

Hi snugs! I am doing better today -- I was taking an OTC cold med that I discovered was giving me terrible migraines so I stopped that. This isn't the worst cold I've ever had, which is nice.

And you?

[snugs]

I am fine just about to get dinner and settle down for the evening.

[hoosierkitties]

This is great!! Thanks, Kate. Wouldn't you just love to see this as you were driving along?!

[Kate of Spice Island]

I did and we stopped...got more where that one came from...

[TruthNtegrity]

For Catholics and other Christian denominations, there is no reason to mourn this death. There is reason, instead to celebrate life. Although we mark the passing of Pope John Paul II, let this Dose be a celebration of Spring and of life.

Amen, Wolfstar.

Thanks for the weekend Dose. We appreciate your weekend work!!! I'm still praying for your employment situation. Any news? I'm sorry that I don't have the time to read a Dose that goes above 50 posts (and don't they all? We have a wonderful, friendly, group of people here) between my back and the demands on my time, so would you mind catching me uptodate? FReepmail would be fine - and thanks in advance. Everytime I was on the brink of being laid off, or was laid off, I found a position that enhanced my resume by requiring different skills along with my current set, always paid more and usually had some kind of adjunct "benefit" - like travelling to the Pentagon to work, for one, or living and working in Hawaii, Spain and England - for others.

Having had such "beneficial" experiences, I'm praying that the same thing happens for you - that out of adversity, comes diversity and increased benefits, of whatever kind.

You hang in there - we are praying for you and employment, and even for your living situation, and God has big ears and an even bigger heart!

[TruthNtegrity]

Thats good. I would hate to see tax-dollars wasted on parenting children.

Just for the record, these childen have a parent in jail. The parent in jail may be their ONLY parent, meaning they are in the CPS system.

Also please notice that this is a Charter school.

The program that the President is making people aware of through his visit, is supported entirely by charities, among them "Prison Fellowship Ministries", a charity near and dear to the President's heart, but his Christmas visits to parties held for the children of prisoners is barred from the Press. He doesn't want the pictures of the children who have parents in jail to be slathered all across the media - er ah, printed in the press. He also doesn't want any notoreity that he attended these functions. Does that sound like some previous President's we could name?

But the President has attended the DC parties held for children of prisoners ever since his arrival in DC but you've never seen any pictures of him with those children, have you?

Fear not - your tax dollars are not being used in this case.

There are others, but I don't know about them.

Unless you've ever been a mentor to these children, or taught them, I guess you just can't have any appreciation for the wonderful children they are, who have had a parent make a wrongful decision, but should the children be punished because of that?

Don't answer. I can't stick around as I have appts. I need to get to. But I couldn't help but notice the derogatory tone in your post.

I haven't pinged the people I did to "gang up on you" but rather to, perhaps, enlarge the picture of what Prison Fellowship Ministries does, and for example, how successful the jails they run are in terms of the low rate of recidivism. Or how successful they are in making the children of prisoners feel valued and cherished, as all children should.

I now bid you "Goodbye". I have to leave.