Remembering Veterans on Memorial Day

 

Raise the Stars & Stripes one more time!

Memorial Day is steeped in tradition. One popular but humorous social tradition, is that the wearing of white clothing is now acceptable. Strange custom but a modern tradition, nonetheless. Many families spend the holiday gathering together to enjoy the start of the summer season with picnics and plenty of outdoor activities. The most important of all, is the visitation of fallen soldiers graves and honoring them with flowers and kind memories.

The original holiday started out as “Decoration Day.” The practice of placing flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers extends to most cultures around the world. Here in America, the earliest observances of that long-standing tradition stems from the Civil War, where some say the custom began officially in early 1860′s. It wasn’t until after World War II that the holiday took on new meaning for the modern generation.

 

Today, we honor our soldiers with parades and barbeques, as Memorial Day is used at the “unofficial” start to summer. One key observance is the placing of the wreath on the Tomb of the Unknowns by the current President of the United States, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Veterans and their families celebrate in their own ways, because for some the memories of conflict are a private matter.

Since, we do have a Navy Veteran on staff, we respect and value the men and women who have served and are currently serving in the United States Military Forces. We choose to honor them with tastefully designed Military-themed Christmas Greeting Cards, Note Cards and Address Labels. When you choose Stonehouse Collection for your Greeting Card needs, your support of America’s military personnel is full-circle.

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Facebook status quotes for New Years:

New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~ Mark Twain

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. ~ P. J. O’Rourke

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other. ~ Anonymous

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions! ~ Joey Adams

 

Facebook status quotes for the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr:

 

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr

 

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr

 

Facebook status quotes for Groundhog’s Day

 

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ~ Bill Vaughn

 

Winter is nature’s way of saying, “Up yours.”  ~ Robert Byrne

 

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”  ~ Robin Williams

 

Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.  ~ Kin Hubbard

 

Facebook status quotes for Valentines Day:

 

Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day! ~ Jay Leno

 

I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. 

~ Author Unknown

 

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? ~ Lily Tomlin

 

Forget love; I’d rather fall in chocolate. ~ Anonymous

Facebook status quotes for President’s Day/ Washington’s Birthday:

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal. ~ Richard Nixon

 

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.~ Andrew Johnson

Being president is like running a cemetery: you’ve got a lot of people under you and nobody’s listening. ~ Bill Clinton

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. ~ Thomas Jefferson

 

Facebook status quotes for St. Patrick’s Day:

St. Patrick – one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish. ~ Charles M. Madigan

St. Patrick’s Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey. ~ Margot Leitman

In Heaven there is no beer; that’s why we drink it here! ~ Irish proverb

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. ~ Oscar Wilde

 

Facebook status quotes for Spring Equinox:

 

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. ~ Emily Dickinson

 

An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~ Susan J. Bissonette

 

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~ Doug Larson

 

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. ~ Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

 

Facebook status quotes for April Fools Day:

 

Isn’t it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool’s Day and ends with cries of “May Day!! ~ Author Unknown

 

Even the gods love jokes. ~ Plato

 

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected ~ Will Rogers

 

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.  ~ Abraham Lincoln

 

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~ Japanese Proverb

 

Facebook status quotes for Easter:

 

I lied on my Weight Watchers list.  I put down that I had 3 eggs… but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.  ~Caroline Rhea

 

Good Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Easter. Bad Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Xmas.
~ Jack Handy

 

Easter is the only time of the year when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket. ~ Author Unknown

 

Don’t you hate when people only go to church on Easter Sunday dressing like peacocks taking up all the good seats. ~ Author Unknown

 

 Facebook status quotes for Friday the 13^th:

 

It’s Friday the 13th. This simply means that most of my children will blame witchcraft for their regular stupidity. ~ Author Unknown

 

It’s Friday the 13th. Just warning you all before you make any weekend arrangements for wood cabins by the lake. ~ Author Unknown

 

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light. ~Dorothy Thompson

 

“You’re doomed. You’re all doomed…” ~ quote from the movie “Friday the 13^th”

 

Facebook status quotes for Earth Day:

 

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty, above the asphalt plain.
America, America, Man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, From sea to oily sea.

~ George Carlin

 

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan

 

There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. ~ Robert Orben

 

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~ Ralph Nader

 

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We’re not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. ~ Dave Foreman

 

Facebook status quotes for Cinco De Mayo:

Most people don’t know that back in 1912, Hellmann’s mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York. The people of Mexico, who were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning. The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo. ~ Author Unknown

 

 

Facebook status quotes for Mother’s Day:

 

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~ Peter De Vries

 

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. ~Lisa Alther

 

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~ Milton Berle

 

I know how to do anything – I’m a Mom.  ~ Roseanne Barr

 

Facebook status quotes for Memorial Day:

 

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

 

Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.  ~ Daniel Webster

 

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

~ headstone inscription in Ireland

 

Facebook status quotes for Father’s Day:

 

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.~ Bill Cosby

 

If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father’s Day. The only Father’s Day tradition in my family is the annual conversation he and I have where I say, “Hey, Dad, what do you want for Father’s Day this year?” and he says, “Nothing.” Then I ask my mom what I should get him and she says, “He likes sandalwood soap, dangly jewelry and Chanel No 5 perfume.” ~ Michael Showalter

 

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. ~ Charles Wadsworth 

 

Facebook status quotes for Graduation:

 

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.~ Mark Twain

 

Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money. ~ Gary Bolding

 

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go ~ Dr. Seuss

 

Graduation speeches were invented largely in the belief that students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.~ Garry Trudeau

Facebook status quotes for 4^th of July:

 

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. ~ Albert Einstein

 

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~ Louis D. Brandeis

 

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. ~ Kahlil Gibran

 

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ~ Albert Camus

 

Facebook status quotes for Labor Day:

 

Labor Day is a glorious holiday, because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds

 

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life’s luggage. ~ Elbert Hubbard

 

 

Facebook status quotes for 911 Remembrance:

 

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic, and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.” ~ Rudolph Giuliani

 

“Lets roll” ~ Todd Beamer, Flight 93, 09-11-2001

 

These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America’s resolve. ~ George W. Bush

 

Chaos had come to our doorstep. As a consequence, we would have to act differently, understand the world differently. ~ Barack Obama

 

Facebook status quotes for Columbus Day:

 

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. ~ Christopher Columbus

 

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.  ~ Bobcat Goldthwaite

 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

~ Marcel Proust

 

Facebook status quotes for Halloween:

Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, “Never take candy from strangers.” And then they dressed me up and said, “Go beg for it.” I didn’t know what to do! I’d knock on people’s doors and go, “Trick or treat. No thank you.” ~ Rita Rudner
Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ~ Steve Almond

 

From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! ~ Scottish proverb

 

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. ~ Jean Baudrillard.

 

Facebook status quotes Dia de los Muertos/ Day of the Dead:

 

God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~ Author Unknown

 

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.  ~ Seneca

 

I knew a man who once said, “death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back.”  ~ quote from the movie Gladiator

 

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~ Robert Ingersoll

 

Facebook status quotes for Veteran’s Day:

As I approach the gates of heaven;
St. Peter I will tell;
One more soldier reporting sir;
I’ve served my time in hell.

~ Mark Anthony Gresswell

 

The story of America’s quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots. ~ Randy Vader

 

We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart. ~ Albert Einstein

 

Facebook status quotes for Thanksgiving:

 

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. ~ Jon Stewart

 

Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America’s obesity statistics. Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car. ~ Stephen Colbert

 

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ~ Johnny Carson

 

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~ Meister Eckhart

 

Facebook status quotes for Black Friday:

“As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.” – Victor Hugo

 

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping. ~ Bo Derek

 

Shopping is a woman thing. It’s a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. ~ Erma Bombeck

 

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~ Dave Barry

Facebook status quotes for Chanukah:

Put on your yarmulke, here comes Hanukkah! So much funukah, to celebrate Hanukkah! Hanukkah is the festival of lights. Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights. ~ Adam Sandler/ The Hanukkah Song

 

Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights.
~ Author Unknown

 

Christmas brings enormous electric bills. Candles are used for Hanukkah. Not only are we spared enormous electric bills, but we get to feel good about not contributing to the energy crisis.

~ Koach.org

 Facebook status quotes for Christmas:

 

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. ~ George Carlin

 

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. ~ Phyllis Diller
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. ~ Garrison Keillor

Easter Traditions from Around the World – Start Your Own!

Not all Easter costumes are alike.

Depending on what area of the country you might be from, there are many different yet traditional ways of celebrating Easter. Some of the family traditions might include things like buying new clothes to wear on Easter. This is similar to the practice of some Asian countries of wearing new clothes at the start of the new year. Our modern Easter celebration here in American, with the Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs, comes from immigrants who brought the custom of coloring Easter Eggs with them. Bright colors were emphasized to invoke the fresh feeling of Spring, which is a time of renewal, growth and family gatherings.

 

Start your own family Holiday tradition with a unique Photo Card, like the The Easter Egg Photo Border Card featured here. Holidays are fantastic times for gathering together with family and friends. Most people will pull out their smartphones to share photos but take it a step further and let people know how everyone is doing with a real ‘status update’ that they can hold and even put on the mantle.

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