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MAY 10, 2019, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3 Invisalign & Traditional Braces FOR A FREE CONSULT CALL 503.362.0500 Customized Financing orthodontics mor children, adolescents & adults www.haveagreatsmile.com Truly Amazing Smiles SCHOOLHOUSE SQUARE 5099 RIVER ROAD N, KEIZER Honoring some amazing moms The second Sunday in May is known as Mother’s Day. It is a day that is set aside to honor mothers. Throughout history there have been outstanding achievements made by women who, in addition to being a wife and mother, impacted the world. Nancy Edison the morning before we went to school,” her daughter, illegally sold. She fi led a complaint in court and won Emma Walton Hamilton, told Today. They also write her son’s freedom. the book series The Very Fair Princess together. Mother Teresa In 1950, Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu created the Lou Xiaoying The 1970s were a Missionaries of Charity. She said it was to care for, hard time for China, “the hungry, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, true, so sure of me; and I felt I had especially the the lepers, all those people something to live for, someone I poorer rural who feel unwanted, unloved, must not disappoint,” said Thomas areas. Lou Xiaoying uncared Alva Edison. He was the youngest supported herself society. People that have of seven children and suff ered from by picking through become a burden to the a learning disability. In the 1800s, the things other people had thrown out. One of society and are shunned by there was not a lot of information the things that she always took in was babies. The everyone. Though she was about learning disabilities or how to help people Cultural Revolution and China’s one-child policy a nun and did not have any who had them. Instead of giving up hope that her lead to parents abandon unwanted babies. “These children of her own; the maternal message of love son would ever be able to learn, Nancy Edison took children need love and care. They are all precious and care that was spread throughout her life and matters into her own hands. She home-schooled human lives,” she said. She recused or adopted 30 organizations gained her the nickname, “Mother the young boy who would later go on to invent life babies in addition to having a daughter of her own. Teresa” changing inventions, like the light bulb. Sojourner Truth “My mother was the making of me. She was so for more for throughout What makes a mother a mother? Unconditional In the 1800s, Sojourner Truth support like Edison, dedication to carving out time time may have been the only black like Andrews, selfl essness like Xiaoying, bravery like consuming job; it’s often sporadic and woman to sue a white man and Sojourner, and love like Mother Teresa. Without crazy. That did not stop Julie Andrews win. Truth and her daughter fl ed moms we would not have light; both literally and from being a hands on mom, “always slavery in 1826. After her escape, fi guratively. Thank a mom this Mother’s Day for there making eggs at fi ve o’clock in she heard that her son had been everything that they do. Julie Andrews Being an actress is a Give your mom a love-fi lled family tree Mother’s Day gifts were always the hardest to pick out for my sister and I. What do you get someone who deserves • Nintendo, the video game maker, only made playing cards when it fi rst started. • Shakespeare made up more than 400 words in his plays. Some of them we still use regularly, like “dawn,” “glow,” and “unreal.” • Armadillos give birth in litters of four, either all boys or all girls. There’s never a mix. • The fi rst moving picture was created to settle a bet over whether all four of a horse’s hooves left the ground at the same time. Pink or red construction paper Kid friendly scissors (or a non-mom adult to help cut things out) the world when all you can aff ord is a Glue scented candle? The answer we came up Colored pencils with was a handmade crafts. Trace your hand from just below Because it’s a gift for your mom, it the wrist on brown construction paper. needs to be something she does not need Carefully cut it out and glue it onto the to help you with. A simple craft idea is a blue paper. Cut a strip of the green paper tree made of hearts; “everyday the love I and glue it along the bottom to be grass. have for you grows,” or another growing Cut the red or pink paper into about one pun. and a half inch strips. Fold them into a What you’ll need: heart and glue the ends together. When Brown construction paper they’ve dried glue them onto the brown Blue construction paper tree. After you’ve fi lled your tree with as Green construction paper many hearts as you want you can use the colored pencils to decorate. Add a sun, blades of grass, inspirational quote about moms, a stick fi gure family, anything you think the perfect present needs. All content by LAUREN MURPHY of No Adults Allowed
