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• DOUBLE MEANING: Celebrate Easter and Spring
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 4/24/11

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Easter is a Christian holiday that like most is mixed with ‘pagan’ ritual and celebration.  Pagan rituals were adapted around important Christian celebrations. Even the word Easter comes from the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, “Eostre.”  Today, Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter, but most Americans also celebrate the spirit of spring and renewal. The holiday also...

• PASS IT DOWN: The Jewish Holiday Of Passover
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 4/18/11

In case you didn't know, Passover is one of the most important of all Jewish holidays.  Why?  This Jewish holy day honors the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt after they were freed from slavery.  Hooray!  The Old Testament says that God was to exact a tenth plague upon the land by killing everyone's first born sons, but GOD told the Jewish people that in order to save their first born son...

• LUCK TO THE IRISH: St. Patrick's Day
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 3/16/11

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It's St. Patrick's Day and President Obama met with new Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, at the White House.  The two discussed the United States' assistance in Ireland's economic recovery, after the country reported its highest jobless rate in 17 years.  Kenny said, "Ireland's open for business and will continue to be open for business to the United States."  So, we wish our Irish pals lots...

• LOVE CONQUERS ALL: The History of St. Valentine's Day
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 2/14/11

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We love love.  We love Valentine’s Day.  But who is this Valentine person and how’d he get a day?  The story, MAMAs, is one for the ages…tell your KID-Os.

In Rome 270 A.D., the Emperor Claudius II, outlawed marriage.  Yes, outlawed it- because he was having trouble getting married men to go off to war because they didn’t want to leave their families (duh?!).   The rebel Christian bishop,...

• “Redefining Romance”: Opinionated MAMA’s Perspective on VALENTINE’S DAY
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 2/14/11

Love is in the air.  Hearts and roses.  Hugs and kisses.  Love.  Love.  Sweet love. We dream about it, write poems about it, watch movies about it, listen to sappy songs about it.  It makes us laugh, it makes us cry, it makes us do crazy things. Love, sweet love. 

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage.  Then, what?  Hearts and flowers go out the window. ...