MOMS

 I'll start with the pandemic:

• Looks like schools will continue to mostly be in-person, meaning that for the rest of the year elementary school students will continue to share the virus and bring it home to family and friends.  Pfizer indicated back in May that their vaccine should be ready for 5-11 ages in September.  However, the Feds said, do more tests, so Pfizer and Moderna might roll out these vaccines sometime in the Fall...which means the number of new cases/day will be with us for much of the rest of the year.
• According to the New York Times this Sunday morning:

With a stockpile of at least 100 million doses at the ready, the first boosters are likely to go to nursing home residents and health care workers, followed by other older people. Officials envision giving people a third dose of the same vaccine that they originally received. How would you like to live in Haiti? Their government was always a bit, if not a lot, screwed up. A 7.0 earthquake on 12January2010 devastated the country. Island shook for 30 seconds. 220,000 died. 300,000 were injured. 1.5 million were displaced.   Then came Hurricane Matthew in October of 2016, a Category 5 at 150 MPH. 200,000 homes were destroyed. 1.4 million needed humanitarian aid. Damage approached $3 billion. There was a cholera outbreak. The government continues to be messed up, and their president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated last month. Their 10 million population of 2010 is now approaching 12 million. Protests have been regular. Gangs are now the controlling influence. Somehow, the pandemic did not affect them much.  However, a new wave hit from June.  Part of the problem was that the government could not organize a vaccination campaign. Then yesterday, a 7.2 quake struck.  This tremor was twice the energy of that 2016 disaster.  I was once in a 7.1 earthquake in Tokyo.  It was scary. Today, Tropical Storm Grace intends to roll over Haiti.

You have problems?  Imagine living in Haiti.

Ever have an affogato?  

An affogato or more traditionally known as "affogato al caffe"^[1] (Italian for "drowned") is an Italian coffee-based dessert. It usually takes the form of a scoop of unflavoured (fior di latte) or vanilla gelatoor ice cream topped or "drowned" with a shot of hot espresso. Some variations also include a shot of amaretto, Bicerin, Kahlua, or other liqueur.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

I'll end with moms:

WHY GOD MADE MOMS

 

Answers given by 2nd grade school children 

to the following questions:

 

Why did God make mothers?

1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.

2. Mostly to clean the house.

3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?

1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.

2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.

3. God made my mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?

1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.

2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?

1. We're related.

2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's mom like me.

What kind of a little girl was your mom?

1. My mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.

2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.

3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?

1. His last name.

2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he do drugs?

3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your mom marry your dad?

1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my mom eats a lot.

2. She got too old to do anything else with him.

3. My grandma says that mom didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?

1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goof ball.

2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.

3. I guess mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between moms and dads?

1. Moms work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.

2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.

3. Dads are taller and stronger, but moms have all the real power cause that's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friends.

4. Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mom do in her spare time?

1. Mothers don't do spare time.

2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?

1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.

2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?

1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.

2. I'd make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it not me.

3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

 

WHEN YOU STOP LAUGHING -- 

SEND IT ON TO OTHER MOTHERS, 

GRANDMOTHERS, AND AUNTS ... 

and anyone else who has anything to do with kids 

or just needs a good laugh!

Hate to be a spoilsport, but methinks some smart aleck adult crafted the above.  Some of those terms are just not how second-graders speak.  Of course, I was 7 years old 74 years ago, so maybe the times have changed.

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