This year’s Westminster Flower and Jazz Festival will be held May 7, 2016

This year’s Westminster Flower and Jazz Festival will be held May 7, 2016

The Flower and Jazz Festival is an annual event held in downtown Westminster the Saturday before Mother's Day. Main Street will be filled with craft and commercial vendors, food vendors, and nursery and flower vendors. It is a great event for all the family with special appeal to moms, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, etc.

The City of Westminster Recreation and Parks Department do a great job in putting this annual event together. The event occurs every year in May the Saturday before Mother’s Day in historic downtown Westminster, Carroll County Maryland.

For more information go to www.westminstermd.go Westminster Annual Events: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/search/label/Westminster%20Annual

Westminster Annual Flower and Jazz Festival: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/search/label/Westminster%20Annual%20Flower%20Jazz

Pictures from last years, May 9, 2015 Westminster Flower and Jazz Festival – part 1 and part 2 www.kevindayhoff.org http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/05/may-9-2015-westminster-flower-and-jazz.html

Labels: #Dayhoffphotoblog, Annual Mother's Day, Dayhoff Daily Photoblog, Dayhoff photos, Westminster Annual, Westminster Annual Flower Jazz

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May 9, 2015 Westminster Flower and Jazz Festival

May 9, 2015 Westminster Flower and Jazz Festival

The Flower and Jazz Festival is an annual event held in downtown Westminster the Saturday before Mother's Day. Main Street will be filled with craft and commercial vendors, food vendors, and nursery and flower vendors. It is a great event for all the family with special appeal to moms, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, etc.

The City of Westminster Recreation and Parks Department do a great job in putting this annual event together. The event occurs every year in May the Saturday before Mother’s Day in historic downtown Westminster, Carroll County Maryland.

For more information go to www.westminstermd.go Westminster Annual Events: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/search/label/Westminster%20Annual

Westminster Annual Flower and Jazz Festival: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/search/label/Westminster%20Annual%20Flower%20Jazz

May 9, 2016 Westminster Flower and Jazz Festival www.kevindayhoff.org

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

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Explore Carroll: Dayhoff: Have a terrific Mother's Day, and try to stay out of prison

Explore Carroll: Dayhoff: Have a terrific Mother's Day, and try to stay out of prison

Happy Mother's Day. Our modern day concept of Mother's Day evolved from around 1868, in the aftermath of the Civil War.

It was formally recognized in the United States in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson approved a resolution marking the second Sunday in May as a day of nationwide observance.

Taking mom out to dinner is a great Mother's Day tradition. There are so many great local restaurants in Carroll County. Year's ago, one such restaurant was the old Sauble's Inn. Local historian Mary Ann Ashcraft wrote about this restaurant years ago with some research she had done for the Historical Society of Carroll County... http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion/5409/have-terrific-mothers-day-try-stay-prison/

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20070513 In Honor of Mothers - Happy Mother’s Day

In Honor of Mothers – Happy Mother’s Day

May 13^th, 2007 – Hat tip: Analog

Answers given by elementary school age children:

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 moms like me.

What kind of 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 get drunk on beer?
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 goofball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. 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 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 a friend’s.
4. Moms have magic; they make you fell 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 and not me.
3. I would like for her to red rid of those invisible eyes on her back.

The Mommy Test

I was out walking with my 4 year old daughter. She picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that. “Why?” my daughter asked. “Because it’s been lying outside, you don’t know where it’s been, it’s dirty and probably has germs” I replied. At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked, “Wow! How do you know all this stuff?” “Uh,” …I had to think quickly. “All moms know this stuff. It’s on the Mommy Test. You have to know it, or they don’t let you be a Mommy.” We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information. “Oh …I get it!” she beamed, “So if you don’t pass the test you have to be the daddy.” “Exactly!” I replied back, with a big smile on my face and joy in my heart.

Dear Lord

“Dear Lord,” the preacher began with arms extended and a rapturous look on his upturned face, “without you we are but dust …” He would have continued, but at that moment one very obedient little girl (who was listening carefully) leaned over to her mother and asked quite audibly in her shrill little girl voice, “Mommy, WHAT is butt dust?”

Lou Ann Reid

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20070511 Queen Noor: Let's reclaim Mother's Day for peace

Queen Noor: Let's reclaim Mother's Day for peace

May 11, 2007

By Queen Noor, Special to CNN

Editor's note: Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan is an international humanitarian activist, a leading voice on issues of world peace and justice, and honorary chair of Rediscover Mother's Day, which celebrates the role of women as peacemakers.

AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) -- In 1982, during a period of dangerous stalemate in the Middle East peace process, I gave a speech at Georgetown University about the critical need for a more engaged and balanced role for the United States in the region.

The newspapers the next day covered my handbag, my rings, and my dress. When asked about the substance of my message, one U.S. Senator said, "It's a great public relations weapon to have an attractive queen."

[…]

Mother's Day -- whether it is the U.S. tradition of celebrating mothers on the second Sunday in May, or on the first day of spring, when we observe the holiday in Jordan -- is universally meant to be a tribute to motherhood and the blessings of peace. In fact, in America the holiday was originally called "Mother's Day for Peace." It was proposed over a century ago by Julia Ward Howe, the famous abolitionist and suffragist, after she witnessed first-hand the terrible bloodshed of the Civil War in America and the Franco-Prussian War in Europe. Howe hoped that the powerful maternal desire for security could shape world events, and she called on mothers of the world to unite against war.

Howe's vision and her call to action could not be more relevant today…

[…]

Read the entire article here: Queen Noor: Let's reclaim Mother's Day for peace

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20070511 Quote of the Day and Mother’s Day philosophy

Quote of the day

Friday, May 11, 2007

Today TC shares us a philosophy lesson about Mothers instead of a quote of the day… For a quote of the day; I was listening to WTTR this morning and a listener shared these words of wisdom with the radio audience:

“Trust in God because you don’t know all the answers.”

Today’s e-mail from TC:

I OWE MY MOTHER

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.

“If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.

"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.

"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.

" Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.

"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear,! in case you're in an accident."

7. My mother taught me IRONY.

"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.

"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.

"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.

"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.

"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.

"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.

"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.

"Stop acting like your father!"

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.

"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.

"Just wait until your father gets home."

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.

"You are going to get it when you get home!"

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.

"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way."

19. My mother taught me ESP.

"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.

"When that lawn mower cuts off your feet, don't come running to me."

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.

"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.

"You're just like your father."

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.

"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.

"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

25. And my favorite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE.

"One day! you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you