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1. Is the book of 2 Samuel in the Old or New Testament or neither?2. From 1 Corinthians 16, on which day did Paul tell believers to putaside money for their offerings? First, Third, Fifth, Sabbath3. Which book (KJV) begins, "Blessed is the man that walketh not inthe counsel of the ungodly"? Judges, Ruth, Ezra, Psalms4. What was Matthew's occupation before becoming a disciple?Tentmaker, Tax collector, Fisherman, Shepherd5. In Esther 2, who foiled a plot to assassinate King Ahasuerus? Neco,Amaziah, Mordecai, Joshua6. What did Ruth and Boaz name their son? Obed, Hushai, Abner, Jehu

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2. Squeeze white household glue into a small bowland dilute with a few drops of water. Brush a light coatof the glue mixture on the outside of ajuice glass. In an overlapping pat-tern, apply the tissue shapesover the glue. Smooth outeach piece with your fingersas you go along.

3. When the outside of the glass iscovered, apply another coating or two of the glue mix-ture over all of the tissue paper. Let dry for severalhours.When dry, the tissue paper will look bright andcolorful once again.Set a votive candle inside and gift wrap it with love forMom on Mother's Day.

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4 3/4 cups (24 ounces) diced cooked potatoes8 ounces extra-lean ground sirloin beef or turkey breast3/4 cup chopped onion1 (8-ounce) can tomato sauce1 (15-ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained2 teaspoons chili seasoning1 tablespoon Splenda Granular1 (8-ounce) can kidney beans, rinsed and drained1 cup cubed Velveeta Light processed cheese

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spray, brown meat and onion. Stir in tomato sauce,undrained tomatoes, chili seasoning and Splenda. Addkidney beans and Velveeta cheese. Mix well to combine.Continue cooking until cheese melts and potatoes arebrowned, stirring both often. For each serving, place 2/3cup potatoes on a serving plate and spoon about 3/4 cupchili mixture over top. Serves 6.

• Each serving equals: 268 calories, 4g fat, 18g protein,40g carbs, 683mg sodium, 166mg calcium, 6g fiber;Diabetic Exchanges: 2 Meat, 2 Starch/Carbs, 1 1/2Vegetable; Carb Choices: 2 1/2.

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�You may recall the character of Tarzan from movies and cartoons as somewhat lacking in language skills -- "Me Tarzan, you Jane."In the novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, however, Tarzan was quite a linguist, speaking French, Latin, English, German, Dutch,Portuguese, several dialects of Arabic and ancient Mayan.

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Joey Logano is struggling as a rookie in theSprint Cup Series, which really shouldn'tcome as too much of a surprise, sinceLogano is all of 18 years old.Ever since Mark Martin began ravingabout this kid who is destined to winchampionships -- Logano was 13 or so atthe time -- Logano has been widelyregarded as a star of the future. He had towait for his 18th birthday -- he'll turn 19on May 24, by the way -- to race in theNationwide Series for the first time. Hewon his third race, at Kentucky Speedway.Logano became the first driver to win morethan once at the age of 18 with his Pepsi300 victory at Nashville Superspeedway.In his rookie Sprint Cup season, though,the Middletown, Conn., native hasstruggled. He ranks 35th in the pointstandings.

Asked how much the Nashville victory meant, Loganosaid, "More than you think, that's for sure. It's been a longtime coming since Kentucky last year, and we should havewon a lot more. To get this is what this whole teamneeded."

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• In 1908, U.S. Senator Elmer Burkett proposed a NationalMother’s Day. The proposal was defeated, but by 1909, nearlyall the states held Mother’s Day services.• In 1949, Woodrow Wilson declared the second Sunday in Mayas Mother’s Day.• Elizabeth Ann Buttle gave birth to her son Joseph 41 yearsand 185 days after she gave birth to her daughter Belinda in1956. This is the longest interval between births by one womanin recorded history.SALUTE TO MOM! (continued):• Jenna Cotton has three children born on the same date: Ayden10/02/03, Logan 10/02/06 and Kayla 10/02/07. What are theodds? 7.5 in every one million births.• “I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and dutybut as a profession that was fully as interesting and challengingas any honorable profession in the world and one that demandedthe best that I could bring to it.” – Rose Kennedy• Another film titled Mother (1996) stars Albert Brooks andDebbie Reynolds. Reynolds’ role of Mother was originally of-fered to both Doris Day and Nancy Reagan.• Omkari Panwar of India is the oldest recorded woman to givebirth. She was estimated to be about seventy years old when shegave birth to her twins– it was an estimate due to the fact thatshe does not have a birth certificate. She conceived through invitro fertilization and delivered the children in 2008.• Although it is currently unverified, a Polish record shows Mar-garet Krasiwa (1655-1763) married for the third time at ageninety-four and had three children in that marriage.• In Yugoslovia, Children’s Day is celebrated three days beforeChristmas. Mother’s Day is the following Sunday and Father’sDay is the Sunday after that.• Rosinete Palmeira Serrao volunteered to be the surrogatemother for her daughter, Claudia de Brito, who could not have

SALUTE TO MOM! children. Rosinete gave birth to her own grandchildren on Sep-tember 20, 2007.• Liza Minelli and Lorna Luft both come by their talent honestlyas the daughters of Judy Garland - but did you know that Garlandwas the daughter of the vaudevillians Frank and Ethel Gumm?SALUTE TO MOM! (continued):• Bast is a goddess of Egypt and is called the “mother of allcats.”• First Mom Michelle Obama won hearts back in the sum-mer of 2008 by telling supporters she only spent two days aweek on the campaign trail and made sure to be home by the endof the second day to be with her kids.• "God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."- Jewish Proverb• The Greek myth for the origins of the seasons all started withthe sorrow of a mother. Peresephone, the daughter of Demeterand Zeus, was kidnapped by Hades and taken to his kingdom inthe underworld. After many difficulties, Persephone was onlyforced to stay with Hades for one season of the year and it is saidthat Demeter, the goddess of grain and fertility, makes this sea-son the most barren and desolate of all the seasons as a sign ofher mourning the time her daughter is away.• The Egyptian goddess Isis is one of the earliest known cele-brated mother figures. She was the wife of Osiris and the motherof Horus, the first ruler of a unified Egpyt. She was worshippedas the mother of all Pharaohs.• Mother’s Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in May inSouth Africa and the last Sunday in May in Sweden.• Feodor Vassilyev was a Russian peasant who was marriedtwice. What is most remarkable about him was that his first wifeset the record for most children born of a single mother. Accord-ing to the Guiness book of World Records, Feodor’s wife gavebirth twenty-seven times and sixty-seven of her sixty-nine chil-dren survived infancy. How is this possible? Feodor’s wife borehim sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets ofquadruplets!

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Mother's Day

Ihave 16 years of experience as a mom, so you can understandwhy I thought, "easy A," when I signed up to take a college-level child-development class.

It didn't take me long to realize that experience doesn't make you anexpert, according to my textbook. My haughty parental confidencewas shredded by the time I finished the class. I went in thinking I hadthe parenting skills of "Supernanny" and came out feeling like JoanCrawford as portrayed in "Mommy Dearest.""We're going to have to start over," I told my husband. "We're doingthis all wrong."But how do you start over from the beginning? How do you rewind tothe moment your children were placed in your arms at the hospitalthrough the stages of weaning, walking, talking, potty training,sending off to school?"Don't tell the kids; they'll never know the difference," he said."Besides, they're almost raised."I left class each day with pangs of guilt for putting them in front of"Sesame Street" before their eyes could focus, not nursing them untilthey were old enough to play organized sports, making them sleep intheir own beds at night, which according to research, if we wouldhave had a "family bed" our kids would have been better sleepers at

an earlier age. (Moms don't get much deep sleep, but the children do.Side note: During the first year after having a baby, new mommies loseapproximately 700 hours of sleep, according to Louann Brizendine,M.D., author of "The Female Brain.") I think it's more like 7,000 hoursof sleep, but I'm no expert.Obviously, it's too late to correct my mistakes. My kids actually caughton a long time ago to my mothering bloopers. "We're not being raisedright," a line from the movie "Carolina" that my kids like to repeat toeach other when they disagree with my parenting skills.They figured out my flaws together one afternoon when they weresmall and discovered me hiding from them. We weren't playing a gameof hide-and-seek, although I was seeking a moment of solitude in mycloset with my blanket and pillow after a particularly hard day ofon-the-job parenting."Are moms supposed to hide from their children?" my daughter asked.Probably not, but Bill Cosby put it this way, "Look at anything thatgives birth: eventually it will run and hide. After a while even a motherelephant will run away from its child and hide. And when you considerhow hard it is for a mother elephant to hide, you can appreciate thedepth of her motivation."Most of us weren't raised by child-development experts, and most of uswill never qualify as one. We're too busy in the trenches, gainingexperience that doesn't necessarily make us experts in the end, butcertainly gives us a front-row seat to how difficult and important the jobis. And let's be honest, it doesn't take a child-development class to bringon the mother guilt.

It simply takes childbirth.

Happy Mother's Day.

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