Happy Friday!  We are at the midway point of June, the official start of summer is upon us.   June is always fun and exciting.  But did you know about all the National Days in June?  In case you have missed them, here are just some of the exciting things to celebrate  this month.  By the way, today is National Fudge Day – Enjoy!

June 1 – National Heimlich Maneuver Day – celebrate by giving abdominal thrusts to complete strangers.  Kind of sorry I missed this on.

June 2 – National Rotisserie Chicken Day – you knew that sooner or later this day had to come around.

June 3 – National Repeat Day – you can say that again.

June 3 – National Repeat Day – you can say that again.

June 5 – National Gingerbread Day – perhaps you are supposed to eat that gingerbread house that has been “aging” since Christmas?

June 6 – National Yo-Yo Day – An opportunity to lift your spirits if you have been feeling down and vise versa and versa vice.

June 7 – National VCR Day – celebrate the 80’s for two, four, or six hours.

June 14 – National Pop Goes the Weasel Day – …..wait for it….wait for it….

June 17 – National Eat Your Vegetables Day – bet the kids are really excited about this one!

June 20 – National Ice Cream Soda Day – perhaps this offer is only available to those who observed National Eat Your Vegetables Day?

June 21 – Go Skateboarding Day – which in the future might be known as National Go to the Emergency Room Day. 

June 25 – National Leon Day – I started to get excited about this one thinking this is as close as I would get to National Leonard Day, but alas Leon is Noel spelled backwards and June 25 marks the six month point until Christmas and this is a big day for crafters for this reason.  I wonder who I need to contact about a National Leonard Day?

Thought for the Week

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll

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Happy Friday the 13th!  Now that winter is behind us and Memorial Day is just around the corner, perhaps it is time to start planning for vacation travel.  Unfortunately, despite your best planning, sometimes, your choice of lodging does not always work out as well as planned.  If you pull up to your destination for the evening and have second thoughts, here are some signs to help you decide if you have picked a bad motel.

Enjoy!

1. The parking lot is gravel.
2. Sign out front proudly proclaims that the motel has air conditioning and a color TV.
3. At check-in you are informed that all “non-infested” rooms have been taken.
4. George Washington really did sleep there.
5. Complimentary newspaper in the lobby has headline “Nixon Resigns.”
6. Coffee syrup is available twenty-four hours a day.
7. The mint on the pillow runs away when the light is turned on.
8. The pictures on the walls are strategically placed over bullet holes.
9. You have to wait until the guy next door is done with the towel so you can use it.
10. There’s a chalk outline on the floor and part of the room is blocked off with yellow tape.
11. Wakeup call is provided by police helicopters.
12. Occasionally the lights dim, and a man’s muffled screams can be heard in the distance.
13. The pool doubles as a wet lands wildlife habitat.
14. Hotel clerk has an eerie resemblance to Norman Bates.

Thought for the Week

And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel:  it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.  ~Dave Barry

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Happy Friday!  This weekend brings us that day when we celebrate Mothers.  There are many things that Mom told us when we were little.  Here are a few of her “greatest hits.”

Enjoy!

There are two options for dinner  – take it or leave it.

Do you want me to give you something to cry about?

Don’t you get smart with me.

What part of “no” do you not understand?

I don’t care who started it.  You stop it now!

“I don’t know” is not an answer.

You WILL eat it and you WILL like it!

You will have fun even if it kills you!

I brought you into this world and I can take you out.

Do I look like a maid?

Is it my job to pick up after you?

A little birdy told me that….

A little soap and water never killed anybody.

Answer me when I ask you a question!

Are you going out dressed like that?

Bored! How can you be bored? I was never bored at your age.

Don’t make me come in there!

Don’t use that tone with me!

Don’t you have anything better to do?

Go to your room and don’t come out until you can behave.

I’ll treat you like an adult when you start acting like one.

I’m down to my last nerve.

Do you think your socks are going to pick themselves up?

Don’t go out with a wet head, you’ll catch cold.

Don’t pick that scab, it’ll get infected.

How do you know you don’t like it if you haven’t tasted it?

If you’re too sick to go to school, you’re too sick to play outside.

Put that down! You don’t know where it’s been!

Someone is going to end up crying.

When you have your own house then you can make the rules!

You can’t find it? Well, if you’d put things where they belonged, you wouldn’t have this problem.

You don’t always get what you want. It’s a hard lesson, but you might as well learn it now.

Don’t EVER let me catch you doing that again!

You could grow potatoes in those ears!

You will ALWAYS be my baby.

You’re going to put your eye out with that thing!

Your father is going to hear about this when HE gets home!

Thought for the Week

A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Author Unknown

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