Izzy was in a Hallmark movie also

• Don't Forget to Watch Grey's Anatomy Tonight!!!! - BigFan
  • GREAT GREAT SHOW! I still think Ellen Pompeo - CatNap
    • I agree - Absolute best show on TV!! nm - GreenEyes
    • I'm thinking about getting the DVD, too. sm - sd
  • For all the fans, very interesting insight from the writer of the show. - Romey
  • The last 2 shows were fabulous. Can't wait to see next week's! - jml
  • It's a great show.. to the posters below who don't like it... - better to see it from the beginning...
  • do you guys think merideth and - dcc
    • answer inside - me
    • After seeing the previews from next week, it sure looks - me
  • Never have seen it. - nm
  • I MISSED IT-CAN YOU FILL ME IN? - Me
  • They lost me. That bomb scenario was just too stupid. nm - MT
    • I'm with you. Jumped the shark! (nt) - Such a silly show. Truly ridiculous.
    • to each their own I guess - Romey
      • What didn't make sense to me is the first - MT
  • I missed it. Poop. Oh well. - nm
  • It was so good. I was thinking they were going to continue it - Oh man
    • i remember izzy from roswell, it was a - dcc
      • Izzy was in a Hallmark movie also - Love Comes Softly sm
    • Boy oh boy, wow is all I can say - Romey
      • i'm glad they gave george that role last - dcc
        • Yea, I can't remember the show that I used - me
          • THAT is where I had seen him before! - Ahah!!

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First, thank you to everyone for your thoughts on my kids. I am feeling pretty down today. I think it's compounded by the fact that I really feel the only person in my life who has really thought that I was just the greatest was my dad, and I lost him back in October. I sure miss having someone around who just in his own quiet way lets you know that you are loved.

So, anyway, I thought about the Hallmark holiday comment below, and while you would probably think Mother's Day was one of those (I guess I did), it actually is not. I thought what I found on the holiday was interesting so thought I'd share it with you.

Origin of Mother's Day

In the times of the ancient Greeks, Rhea, the Mother of the Gods, was honored with a special festival. In seventeenth century England, "Mothering Sunday," celebrated on the fourth Sunday in Lent, honored England's mothers.

Jumping across the ocean, the first observation of a Mother's Day in the United States took place in 1872 when Julia Ward Howe, social reformer and poet who penned the words to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," suggested a day to honor mothers. This day, which she felt should be dedicated to peace, was celebrated by gatherings that she organized and held in Boston. This tradition spread, and was later organized in other areas of the country as well.

In 1907, Anna Jarvis took Howe's idea a step further and began to campaign for a nationally recognized Mother's Day. In the late nineteenth century, Jarvis's own mother had tried to establish "Mother's Friendship Days" as a way to heal the scars of the Civil War. Persuading her mother's church in Grafton, to celebrate Mother's Day on the anniversary of Jarvis's mother's death - the second Sunday in May - our Mother's Day holiday as it is now celebrated was born. Jarvis also began the tradition of wearing a carnation in honor or memory of our mothers - a coloured carnation if your mother is still living, a white one if she is deceased.

Jarvis's push to make Mother's Day a national event involved letter writing to ministers, politicians and businessmen. By 1911, Mother's Day was being celebrated in almost every state in the country. On 9th of May 1914, President Woodrow Wilson made the official proclamation that Mother's Day would be a national holiday to be celebrated annually on the second Sunday in May.

Mother's Day is still celebrated around the world at various times throughout the year. There are some countries, such as Finland, Denmark and Australia that do observe the holiday on the second Sunday in May. 

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I never saw his other 2 movies, but I am so glad he is making this, and I hope everyone will watch it. 

He mentioned on Oprah that health insurance companies are required by law to turn a profit (for the benefit of their stock holders), and in order to turn a big profit they feel they need to deny care to patients that need it.  The laws obviously need to be changed, and healthcare needs to be a right, not an outrageously expensive privilege!

It's located in a small town called Skowhegan and it's open during the summer.

No more speakers in the window. The sound comes through your radio. Make sure your car battery is good. No need to hide in the back as they charge by the car, regardless of how many people are in it.

share with me the good movies you have seen in the past year (I like to get PayPerView and have picked some STRANGE stuff lately!!!)

Thanks!!!!

Hopefully somebody out there can help me out on this one.  I watched this moving about 4 or 5 years ago, I believe it was even a Sundance Film Festival Movie, but not sure.  It is about 2 families, 1 Irish Catholic family with several kids and one particular curious 10 year old boy and Jewish family with only 1 child who is 10 and the 2 boys become friends.  The whole point of the movie is their different religions and the 2 boys trying to figure out if their religions are so different why is the outcome for both getting to heaven.  The 2 boys end up doing all kinds of "challenges" and what not through the movie to ensure their place in heaven while also trying to sort out why their families are so different and against them playing with each other.  In the end, I believe the Jewish boy ends up getting sick and dying and the 2 families end up being brought together by this and also brought together by the donation of the Jewish parish to the eldest boy in the Catholic family so he can go to college (which of course the Catholic father is against at first because of pride). 

I think that is how the movie goes but I only saw it once.  The reason I want to show my kids is because they are 9 and 10 and all of a sudden becoming facinated with why people have different religions and beliefs and how some of their piers "don't like some kids" because of their religion, etc.  This movie was a good example of how we are all the same no matter what we believe and I want my girls to know that and to know that they should not judge somebody by their beliefs and I want them to know that we ALL can teach each other something new no matter what our backgrounds are or how we were raised or even how old we are.  Can somebody help me with this movie title?  It would be greatly appreciated. 

"O' Brother where Art Thou?"  There were so many great quotes in that movie it just ain't funny!

"The preacher says all my sins is warshed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo." --Delmar