More Mom Quotes

My computer seems to be behaving itself this morning, so I'm going to push my luck and do a second post.

It's been a whole month since my last "Mom Quotes" post so I thought I'd do another one.  Actually I've been thinking about making this a monthly thing, so we'll see how that goes.  Without further ado, here are my favourites from the last month:

"Every mother is like Moses; she does not enter the promised land.  She prepares a world she will not see." - Pope Paul VI

"Making a decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." - Elizabeth Stone

"No one in he world can take the place of your mother.  Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right." - Harry Truman

"Mother's arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein." - Victor Hugo

And apparently I pushed my luck too far so back to the iPhone I go.

"There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness." - Andrew Jackson

"My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me I felt that I had something to live for - someone I must not disappoint." - Thomas A. Edison

"So much of what we know of love we learn at home." - Author Unknown

"There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps." - Archibald Thompson

"It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew. If I have amounted to anything, it will be die to her." - Charles Chaplin

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"A mother understands what a child does not say." - Jewish Proverb

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.". - Ambrose Bierce

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fondemories." - Honore De Balzac

"My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it and hospitable accommodation." - Mark Twain

So Excited!

I've been quite excited for a few months now about an event, but I am now super duper excited.  It's actually quite appropriate since it's almost St. Patrick's Day.  Don't worry, I won't keep you in suspense for too long.  My Mom and I are going to see Riverdance on April 16th!  We are definitely going because we got tickets this week (thank you Kizzy for picking them up!).  We were thinking about going last time they were in Lethbridge but then forgot about it.

You might think that this is silly, but I really LOVE Riverdance.  I LOVE Irish Dancing (and bagpipes, but this post is not about bagpipes.  Ok maybe a little, but it's not the focus), and their costumes and I especially LOVE when the whole troupe is out on the stage and they're all dancing in sync.  AHHHHHHH!  I'm getting goosebumbps just thinking about it.

(Reel Around the Sun from Riverdance's website)

I don't know why I love it so much.  Granted, my Great-Grandpa Robinson did come to Raymond from Ireland, but that only makes me 1/8th Irish.  Believe me, although I claim to be "part Irish" quite frequently, I am fully aware that I'm a Mutt since there are also Scottish, English, Norwegian and German genes included in my DNA in varying amounts.  (This is why I'm built "strong like ox.")  But there's something about most things Irish that excites me (and Scottish too since I love bagpipes, (yes Ireland has pipes.  They're not exactly the same as the more famous Scottish ones, but they have pipes nonetheless)... and the kilts.  I mean, really, who doesn't love to see a guy all decked out in a kilt?).  I want to visit Ireland before I die.  I just think it's so beautiful!

Anyways, I'm super ridiculously excited to be going to see Riverdance live and especially that I get to go with my Mom.  Our schedules don't mesh very well, so we don't get to do a lot of things together.  But this is something that we both love and I couldn't be happier that we get to share this experience with each other!

Awol

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. It's not that I have forgotten about my blog, it's actually my compter's fault. For some reason it just randomly stops transmitting a signal to my screen (and usually at the most inconvenient times). I checked out HP's website and was instructed to disable both my screen saver (which was very sad because it's a bunch of our favorite pictures) and my "sleep" mode (at least one of us was getting some sleep). However, neither of these things worked. So this leaves a problem with the software. Let me just say that Vista has been nothing but a pain in my hiney since day 1 (not the post I did by that name, but the first day we got this computer). I'm fairly certain that it's not a virus because I did manage to run a scan once after all these shenanigans started and nothing came up. So this leaves me with the option of "wiping" the computer. I did it a total of 4 times on our old computer. It's really not terribly difficult, just really annoying. Anyways, I just thought I'd let you know why I haven't been posting/leaving comments on your blogs as much lately. It's because I just did this whole post on my iPhone and it's really knd of difficult :). I guess I can at least be grateful that the computer waited until I had a smart phone before it started acting up 'cuz we all know I'd just die without access to Facebook. Hmmmmmm. Maybe the computer's jealous of all the time I spend with the new phone?