POPpers are back from POP 9/29-10/6 and made GREAT friends!Chat until next trip!! Part 2
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julsmom
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ANTSS!!!!!!!!! I JUST GOT MY PACKAGE! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!! I CANNOT SAY IT IN A WAY THAT TRULY EXPRESSES HOW THANKFUL I AM. You are so great. Have a very merry christmas. I am going to miss all of you so much, but I will be thinking of you. Hugs and kisses! Merry Christmas!
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Cat: Before we get logged off or kicked off, great, now I am sad, I am gonna miss talking to you! You are awesome. Merry Christmas. I hope your family has fun and I hope you get all you wished for and more. I will hear from you monday or tuesday. MERRY CHRISTMAS CAT!!!!! 
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I grew up in the 60's/70's with practical parents. A mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original recycle queen, before they had a Name for it... A father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones.
Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends lived barely a wave away. I can see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress, lawn mower in one hand, and dish-towel in the other. It was the time for fixing things. A curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress Things we keep.
It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy. All that re-fixing, eating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more.
But then my mother died, and on that clear summer's night, in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any more.
Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...never to return. So... while we have it.. it's best we love it... and care for it... and fix it when it's broken.... and heal it when it's sick.
This is true... for marriage.... and old cars... and children with bad report cards..... dogs and cats with bad hips.... and aging parents.... and grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it. Some things we keep. Like a best friend that moved away or a classmate we grew up with.
There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special.... and so, we keep them close!
I received this from someone who thinks I am a 'keeper', so I've sent it to the people I think of in the same way... Now it's your turn to send this to those people that are "keepers" in your life. Send it back to the person that sent it to you if they too are a keeper. Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
Keep them close
I grew up in the 60's/70's with practical parents. A mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original recycle queen, before they had a Name for it... A father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones.
Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends lived barely a wave away. I can see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress, lawn mower in one hand, and dish-towel in the other. It was the time for fixing things. A curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress Things we keep.
It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy. All that re-fixing, eating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more.
But then my mother died, and on that clear summer's night, in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any more.
Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...never to return. So... while we have it.. it's best we love it... and care for it... and fix it when it's broken.... and heal it when it's sick.
This is true... for marriage.... and old cars... and children with bad report cards..... dogs and cats with bad hips.... and aging parents.... and grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it. Some things we keep. Like a best friend that moved away or a classmate we grew up with.
There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special.... and so, we keep them close!
I received this from someone who thinks I am a 'keeper', so I've sent it to the people I think of in the same way... Now it's your turn to send this to those people that are "keepers" in your life. Send it back to the person that sent it to you if they too are a keeper. Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
Keep them close
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julsmom said:Cat: Before we get logged off or kicked off, great, now I am sad, I am gonna miss talking to you! You are awesome. Merry Christmas. I hope your family has fun and I hope you get all you wished for and more. I will hear from you monday or tuesday. MERRY CHRISTMAS CAT!!!!!
cat must be rushing to get out of the office too!!
cat!!!
ANTSS2001
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julsmom said:I feel like the one drunk guy in the group of drunk guys that's saying "I love you guys man!"
I trully know what you mean.... just bummed out since I will be off this weekend... no family no niece or nephew and no Dis
julsmom
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Antss: That story is so nice.
Cat: I hope you didn't leave! I wanted to wish you Merry Christmas! I thought you'd be here with me til they turned us off! I wanted to email you a "Merry Christmas" but you don't have the option under your name!
Cat: I hope you didn't leave! I wanted to wish you Merry Christmas! I thought you'd be here with me til they turned us off! I wanted to email you a "Merry Christmas" but you don't have the option under your name!
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