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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - May 10, 2019
May 10, 2019
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Mother's Day is Sunday:
Quotable: "A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." (TENNEVA JORDAN)
--"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium." (MARY KAY BLAKELY)
--"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness." --JESSICA LANGE
--"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." --ROBERT BROWNING
--"A mother's love endures through all." --WASHINGTON IRVING
--"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." --RUDYARD KIPLING
--"If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love." --STEVIE WONDER
--"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." --PRINCESS DIANA
--"All I am I owe to my mother." --GEORGE WASHINGTON
--"Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are." --DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER
--"Sooner or later, we all quote our mothers." --Anonymous
--"A mother understands what a child does not say." --Jewish proverb
--"Moms are like buttons --they hold everything together." --Anonymous
--"A mother's hug lasts long after she lets go." --Anonymous
--"Nothing is really lost until your mom can't find it." --Anonymous
--"Mothers don't sleep. They just worry with their eyes closed." -AnonymousMother's Day Background: Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908 at a church service in Philadelphia, PA. ANNE JARVIS had the service done for her mother, who'd told her when she was much younger that she'd hoped there would be a day to commemorate all mothers --everywhere.
So, two years after her death, Anne and her friends began a national letter-writing campaign to get a holiday honoring mothers, and in 1914 Congress passed legislation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.Where to go on Mother's Day: No matter how pinched the household budget, we're still going to do our best to keep Mom out of the kitchen for Mother's Day. Restaurants still expect it will be the busiest day of the year, according to the National Restaurant Association --about 38 percent of all Americans will dine out that day. In fact, many will dine out twice, celebrating with different people: The NRA reports that 59 percent celebrate at dinner, 51 percent at lunch or brunch, and 22 percent at breakfast.
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