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Wishing Serena Williams well in whatever she chooses to do in the future.
Serena Williams 🐐
🥇 4x Olympic Gold
🏆 73 Singles Titles
🏆 23 Doubles Titles
🏆 7 Australian Open Titles
🏆 3 French Open Titles
🏆 7 Wimbledon Titles
🏆 6 US Open Titles
Undeniable.
Happy Yom Kippur to those who celebrate!
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Lady Andrea & Kaitlyn.
Happy 6th Anniversary
Love to you both
Vaughan and Jess
To those who celebrate it
Happy Diwali
Diwali is the Indian “festival of lights”—a holiday that celebrates the triumph of good over evil.
This year, Diwali will be celebrated on Monday October 24.
Though technically religious, it’s also become a cultural event that’s celebrated with sweets and special foods.
Happy Halloween Everyone,
Hope its spookyAncient Origins of Halloween
Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred.
On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain (pronounced “sow-win”), when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.
Halloween, contraction of All Hallows’ Eve, a holiday observed on October 31, the evening before All Saints’ (or All Hallows’) Day.
The celebration marks the day before the Western Christian feast of All Saints and initiates the season of Allhallowtide, which lasts three days and concludes with All Souls’ Day.
Here are five common and fun Halloween traditions:
1. Making Jack-o’-Lanterns. During the Halloween season, you’ll see Jack-o’-Lanterns on almost every front porch.
Jack O Lantern Pumpkins are the traditional Halloween style round shaped pumpkins with bright orange outer flesh that is perfect for carving out spooky faces and popping a tea-light in,
2. Wearing spooky costumes.
3. Trick-or-treating.
4. Visiting haunted houses.
5. Telling scary stories.Blessed Samhain to all.
May the Goddess and the Old ones come close, may the ancestors watch over you, and may your time this Samhain be blessed with spirits of family recently and long past. Blessed Be.
For those who celebrate it…
Thanksgiving Letter From Grandma!
Dear Family…….Living is still important to me.
If being in my Last Will and Testament is important to you, then you might consider being with me for my favorite holiday. Dinner is at 2:00. Not 2:15. Not 2:05. Two. 2:00! Arrive late and you get what’s left over.
Last year, that moron Marshall fried a turkey in one of those contraptions and practically burned the deck off the house. This year, the only peanut oil used to make the meal will be from the secret scoop of peanut butter I add to the carrot soup.
Jonathan, your last new wife was an idiot. You don’t arrive at someone’s house on Thanksgiving needing to use the oven and the stove. Honest to God, I thought you might have learned after two wives – date them longer and save us all the agony of another divorce.
Now, the house rules are slightly different This year because I have decided that 47% of you don’t know how to take care of nice things. Paper plates and red Solo cups might be bad for the environment, but I’ll be gone soon and that will be your problem to deal with.
House Rules:
1. The University of Texas no longer plays Texas A&M. The television stays off during the meal.
2. The “no cans for kids” rule still exists. We are using 2 liter bottles because your children still open a third can before finishing the first two. Parents can fill a child’s cup when it is empty. All of the cups have names on them and I’ll be paying close attention to refills.
3. Chloe, last year we were at Trudy’s house and I looked the other way when your Jell-O salad showed up. This year, if Jell-O salad comes in the front door it will go right back out the back door with the garbage. Save yourself some time, honey. You’ve never been a good cook and you shouldn’t bring something that wiggles more than you. Buy something from the bakery.
4. Grandmothers give grandchildren cookies and candy. That is a fact of life. Your children can eat healthy at your home. At my home, they can eat whatever they like as long as they finish it.
5. I cook with bacon and bacon grease. That’s nothing new. Your being a vegetarian doesn’t change the fact that stuffing without bacon is like egg salad without eggs. Even the green bean casserole has a little bacon grease in it. That’s why it tastes so good. Not eating bacon is just not natural. And as far as being healthy… look at me. I’ve outlived almost everyone I know.
6. Salad at Thanksgiving is a waste of space.
7. I do not like cell phones. Leave them in the car.
8. I do not like video cameras. There will be 32 people here. I am sure you can capture lots of memories without the camera pointed at me.
9. Being a mother means you have to actually pay attention to the kids. I have nice things and I don’t put them away just because company is coming over. Mary, watch your kids and I’ll watch my things.
10. Rhonda, a cat that requires a shot twice a day is a cat that has lived too many lives. I think staying home to care for the cat is your way of letting me know that I have lived too many lives too. I can live with that. Can you?
11. Words mean things. I say what I mean. Let me repeat: You don’t need to bring anything means you don’t need to bring anything. And if I did tell you to bring something, bring it in the quantity I said. Really, this doesn’t have to be difficult.
12. Domino’s and cards are better than anything that requires a battery or an on/off switch. That was true when you were kids and it’s true now that you have kids.
13. Showing up for Thanksgiving guarantees presents at Christmas. Not showing up guarantees a card that may or may not be signed.Love You, Grandma
To those who celebrate:
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