A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....06-01-05....Another Finest Play Day

Mama_Bear

[Mama_Bear]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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We're having fun and hope you are!
~ Billie, Mama_Bear, Dutchess, Aquamarine, DollyCali ~

Yes, FRiends, it's another
Finest "Play Day"!

We should be visiting another state today, but the 'Finest Tour Bus' is in the shop for repairs (again!). So, we will be staying home and having a play day instead.

For those of you who have your heart set on traveling, you are welcome to re-visit any or all of our Finest states below..... :-)

05-23-03 Alabama 06-27-03 Maryland 07-11-03 Vermont 07-25-03 Utah 08-05-03 Texas 08-22-03 Nevada 08-26-03 Wash DC 09-05-03 Tennessee 09-17-03 Florida 09-19-03 Minnesota 10-03-03 New Mexico 10-14-03 Georgia 10-17-03 Louisiana 10-22-03 Michigan 11-04-03 South Dakota 11-14-03 California

01-09-04 South Carolina 02-06-04 West Virginia 02-20-04 Oregon 03-09-04 Pennsylvania 03-30-04 Wyoming 04-13-04 Mississippi 04-27-04 Missouri 05-25-04 Indiana 07-21-04 Virginia 08-18-04 Colorado 09-29-04 Idaho 10-20-04 New Hampshire 12-07-04 Hawaii 02-09-05 Maine 03-09-05 North Carolina 04-13-05 Arizona

...the rest of us will
stay here and









Being 8 Years Old Again

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.

• I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
• I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.
• I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.
• I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.
• I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.
• I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good.
• I want to believe that anything is possible.
• I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
• I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.
• I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.

So, here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, 'cause...

"Tag! You're it!"

And have a wonderful Wednesday!

03-29-05 ~ Hall of Fame #11

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 05-27,28,29,30-05 Remembering Them Then ~ Honoring Them 05-31-05 Military Monday on Tuesday

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[Mama_Bear]

Thanks, everyone, for contributing to our thread today. It was fun being eight again. :-)

[luvie]

(((hugs))) It has been a fun day all around! Thanks for helping to make it so!

[AFPhys]

G'nite... I'm signing off now, too.

[WVNan]

Good night MB.

[WVNan]

Goodnight AFP

[Socratic]

Goodnight, all.

[DollyCali]

guess Mama is tucking us in.. night everyone!

[LadyX]

Okay --it's now WEDNESDAY, and I'm finally catching up..:))
Kinda confusing to have a 4-day weekend, Military Monday on Tuesday, and now a Play Day when I didn't get to play until this evening..:))

First, I have to take exception to one of the items on the list for 8-year olds:

All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset."

In fact, I turned 8 5 months after Pearl Harbor, and we were anything but blissfully unaware, all of America and our citizens and their families immersed in World War II.

We children bought war stamps for our war bond books;

collected scrap paper and metal to be recycled for the war effort;

our parents used ration stamps for rationed needed-for-the-troops for essential goods (coffee; sugar; shoes; butter; etc.);

we wrote "censored" mail to friends and loved ones in the military;

we fully participated by being the one to fill the bathtub with water and turning out all lights in the house, flashlights at the ready, in Blackout Drills, with wardens on every block in cities;

were up to date on the war with newspapers, magazines, radio reports and Foxtone films at the Saturday matinees --

We children played "WAR" in the empty lots, digging foxholes against the comping Germans/Japanese --
and learned to identify most of their aircraft, should we see them in our skies --
not unlikely in Miami (I then lived in Coral Gables, a suburb) where German subs were seen right in Biscayne Bay - my own father saw one surface briefly there.

This is why I am so adamant about *not shielding* the children of today from 9/11 and the War on Terror; etc. --

It is a *GOOD THING* for them to work out possible scenarios and how they would honorably respond to any threat to their environment -- to develop *LIFELONG COPING SKILLS* that will do them in good stead!!

(Not to mention turning their blood into ribbons of red, white and blue..:))

[Billie]

Twarnt easu Ms Billie. Twarnt easy. Focus, focus, focus.LOL! It really had me stumped - couldn't believe it - like, what WERE they talking about?! So glad to read there were others that took a few tries to 'get it', too! WHEW! Thanks a lot for challenging our minds, Dolly! LOL!

[Billie]

Red is my favorite color. Most of my cars have been red, I wear it quite a bit & decorate with it. At mom's place here things are not "me".. maybe again someday.

Dolly, you are so much on my mind right now. Hope you know that. (((((((((Dolly and "Mom")))))))))))

[Billie]

I finally *looked* at it a little differently and scored 100%!

Billie, that sentence is a sermon. So often when we are in a situation where we can see no way out, we need to get still and look at the situation a little differently and we will see the way out. That is what the Holy Spirit does for us. Let's us see things differently.

I LOVE this response to my post. ((((((((((Nan))))))))))

[WVNan]

Hey girl. I just slipped back over to see if anyone was here. I thought everyone had gone to bed. Yeah, I loved that sentence. You gave me a great idea for a sermon.

[Billie]

You gave me a great idea for a sermon.

Am so glad - never dreamed of it that way, but it's true. I'm off to bed now, too. Don't stop in very often this late. :) Nite! Hi and g'nite, Maggie!

[WVNan]

Goodnight Billie. Glad I got to say hi.

[LadyX]

Just circled back and see NAN WAS HERE!!

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Lots of hugs for Billie, too - good night..:))

[dutchess]

It's a new day...please join us for another "tell it like it is" JohnHuang2 essay HERE