Daily prompt: Out of reach

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dogs, pets, postaday2013, responsibility

Was there a toy or thing you always wanted as a child, during the holidays or on your birthday, but never received? Tell us about it.

My sister and I for quite a while, when we were little, used to habitually beg our mother for a puppy on bended knee. We would promise our mother that she wouldn’t even know that the puppy was there, that we would do absolutely everything, and please, please, please can we have a cute little baby puppy? You are the meanest Maman in the world is what our poor mother had to endure for quite some time.

She was so lucky that Mommy dogs weren’t in the habit of having their litters outside in backyards accessible to little girls like my sister and myself because that would have been an atrocious headache for our mother. The reason that I said this is because Mommy cats are more apt to have litters outside and my sister and I stumbled upon a litter of kittens and guess what happened? The Mommy cat was away and my sister and I purloined a kitten and smuggled it into our bedroom for keeping. That lasted all of an hour, our mother finally heard the mews coming from the kittens box and we had to bring the kitten back. We did it with heavy hearts and tear filled eyes. It was a sad day in our little lives, sniff, sniff.

Being an adult, I commend and applaud my mother’s resolve. It was admirable. I say this with the utmost respect as a parent. She did the theoretical puppy in question a huge favor saying no because unless everyone is 100% on board for a puppy, a puppy shouldn’t be gotten. I say this as a dog lover. Puppies are a lot of work, trust me.

My civic duty done

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campaigns, civic duty, elections, postaday2012, responsibility

Today being the first Tuesday of November means that it is election day. I was joined by the baby boy and we exercised our civic duty by voting not only for the next President but also for congressional members and four ballot questions; two of which were simply referendums. The four questions were quite serious. The two that would become law were; one involving physician assisted suicide for the terminally ill, and the other question was for legalizing medical marijuana. The other two questions that were meant to take the pulse of the electorate were just as serious; one was voting for a constitutional amendment that would explicitly state that corporations are not people and they do not have the right to free speech as do actual people and the second question was asking us, the electorate, if we wanted the wealthy to be taxed a bit more, cut defense spending so that we can preserve Medicare, social security and invest in education and infrastructure.

My baby boy and I both voted in sync, we found out when we left after comparing notes. We were both happy to be voting for our President, who we both admire very much. A Romney presidency is just too scary to contemplate because of his serious belief in supply-side economics, cut taxes and supposedly that will grow an economy. Unfortunately for us, we tried that during the long Bush years and it does not work. He also wants to cut and gut all social insurance programs and anything that is not military. Effectively I am left to think that he wants a military state and that is it.

No thank you, the baby boy and I put our two cents in and I hope that we are happy with the outcome tomorrow.