A Wonderful Video and Related Posts of the Week

If you've never seen the video which is embedded below, you're in for a treat. A double treat in fact. If you have seen it before, then you'll be anxious to see one of the Posts of the Week below because it features the same two characters, Mickey and Patsy played by Ray Edelstein and Andrew Johns, respectively. Ray happens to be married to bloggie pal Daryl of Out and About in New York City which is where video #2 is currently being hosted. Grab yourself a cup of tea or coffee and sit back to enjoy these guys. They're top-notch!

Without further delay, here are this week's Posts of the Week:

The icon to the left here is yours for the taking if your blog post has been named as a Post of the Week - either as top post or as a runner up, today or in past weeks. I've decided to start mixing up the colours each week. Take whichever one appeals to you. You'll find others in past posts.

This week's top post goes to:

Child, Stay Close To Us
by Sandy
at Writing in Faith

Other wonderful posts in no particular order are:

Mr. Schulz
by Lime
at House of Lime

Hummingbird Update
by Betty
at Bossy Betty

Mother's Day
by TechnoBabe
at TechnoBabe's Adventures

Military Spouse Appreciation Day
by Kevin
at Blunoz Random Ramblings

Dicing with Death
by Maggie May
at Nuts in May

View from the Bridge of Sighs
by Indrani
at I Share

Dumb Bunnies
by Karen
at Karen R. Evans

The Man With the Silver Cane
by LadyFi
at Quirky Quest With Lady Fi

and of course, as promised, The Further Adventures of Mickey and Patsy ..

The Titwillow Affair
by Ray and Andrew
at Out and About in New York City

Please drop by their blogs for a visit and leave a kind comment if you have the time. Also, please feel free to add your own choices (for any blog except this one) for a specific blog post in the comments section below, where others can see them.

Thank you.

A Lucky Mom

I'm a lucky mom. I've got two loving, intelligent, funny sons and both of them happen to be home with me for Mother's Day for the first time in four years. Jeffrey will have to head back to RMC in Kingston later today but he had an unexpected leave to come home this weekend, and so he did. I'm going to sit back and enjoy my time with my boys. I hope you enjoy the Mother's Day flowers in the photos below.

Happy Mother's Day!

"Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together." ~ Pearl S. Buck





"You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes." ~ Walter M. Schirra Sr.





"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." ~Rajneesh





"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not." ~ James Joyce





"Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes





"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."
~ Thomas C. Haliburton





"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." ~Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis





"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





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





"My son, when you were born, you brought me happiness, as you grew, you made me laugh and brought me joy, now you are a man, and you make me proud!" ~ Catherine Pulsifer