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SALUTE TO MOM! (continued): • Mother’s Day is ofﬁcially celebrated on May 10th in India. • Mother (1926) is a ﬁlm about a woman’s struggle during the Russian revolution. • A mother is someone who studies moths. It is pronounced moth-er. • Jayne Bleackly gave birth to her daughter Annie (3/20/00) 208 days after giving birth to her son, Joseph (9/3/99). This is the shortest interval between births for one mother on record. • Rhea is the mother of most Greek deities, including Zues. • A celebration of mothers was practiced in early Europe on the fourth Sunday in Lent. On this day, Christians celebrated the church they were baptized in as their “mother church.” In the 1600s, this celebration was expanded to include all mothers and was called Mothering Day. • Mothering Day was brought to America with the Pilgrims. • The American celebration of Mother’s Day began with Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation. She called for an international Mother’s Day to celebrate peace and motherhood. Howe was the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. • In 1908, U.S. Senator Elmer Burkett proposed a National Mother’s Day. The proposal was defeated, but by 1909, nearly all the states held Mother’s Day services. • In 1949, Woodrow Wilson declared the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. • Elizabeth Ann Buttle gave birth to her son Joseph 41 years and 185 days after she gave birth to her daughter Belinda in 1956. This is the longest interval between births by one woman in recorded history. • Jenna Cotton has three children born on the same date: Ayden 10/02/03, Logan 10/02/06 and Kayla 10/02/07. What are the odds? 7.5 in every

one million births. • “I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.” – Rose Kennedy • Another film titled Mother (1996) stars Albert Brooks and Debbie Reynolds. Reynolds’ role of Mother was originally offered to both Doris Day and Nancy Reagan. • Omkari Panwar of India is the oldest recorded woman to give birth. She was estimated to be about seventy years old when she gave birth to her twins– it was an estimate due to the fact that she does not have a birth certificate. She conceived through in vitro fertilization and delivered the children in 2008. • Although it is currently unverified, a Polish record shows Margaret Krasiwa (1655-1763) married for the third time at age ninety-four and had three children in that marriage. • In Yugoslovia, Children’s Day is celebrated three days before Christmas. Mother’s Day is the following Sunday and Father’s Day is the Sunday after that. • Rosinete Palmeira Serrao volunteered to be the surrogate mother for her daughter, Claudia de Brito, who could not have children. Rosinete gave birth to her own grandchildren on September 20, 2007. • Liza Minelli and Lorna Luft both come by their talent honestly as the daughters of Judy Garland but did you know that Garland was the daughter of the vaudevillians Frank and Ethel Gumm? • Bast is a goddess of Egypt and is called the “mother of all cats.” • First Mom Michelle Obama won hearts back in the summer of 2008 by telling supporters she only spent two days a week on the campaign trail and made sure to be home by the end of the second day to be with her kids.

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SALUTE TO MOM! (continued): • “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” - Jewish Proverb • The Greek myth for the origins of the seasons all started with the sorrow of a mother. Peresephone, the daughter of Demeter and Zeus, was kidnapped by Hades and taken to his kingdom in the underworld. After many difficulties, Persephone was only forced to stay with Hades for one season of the year and it is said that Demeter, the goddess of grain and fertility, makes this season the most barren and desolate of all the seasons as a sign of her mourning the time her daughter is away. • The Egyptian goddess Isis is one of the earliest known celebrated mother figures. She was the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus, the first ruler of a unified Egpyt. She was worshipped as the mother of all Pharaohs. • Mother’s Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in May in South Africa and the last Sunday in May in Sweden. • Feodor Vassilyev was a Russian peasant who was married twice. What is most remarkable about him was that his first wife set the record for most children born of a single mother. According to the Guiness book of World Records, Feodor’s wife gave birth twenty-seven times and sixty-seven of her sixty-nine children survived infancy. How is this possible? Feodor’s wife bore him sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets! The End

Dear Dave, In your plan, you talk about Baby Step 3 as saving enough to have three to six months of expenses in your emergency fund. My husband and I were wondering how you can determine whether you need to be on the low end or high end of that range? Amanda Dear Amanda, Lots of times in a marriage you’ll have a situation where one person wants to save more, while the other is excited to move on toward investing. Technically, neither is wrong, so the emergency fund really deals with someone’s own personal level of peace. Remember Murphy’s Law, and how it says that says if something can go wrong it will go wrong? Your emergency fund is Murphy Repellant. Some people just want to make sure he doesn’t knock on the door, while others want to make sure he stays in the next county! There are always practical considerations you can use to determine the amount of your emergency fund. If you both have very stable jobs, you’ll probably be okay saving up three or four months of expenses. But if just one of you works outside the home, or if one is self-employed or on commission, leaning toward the six month side is probably a good idea. Plus, you can always compromise. Start out with three months, but add a little every once in a while until you reach a point where you’re both comfortable! - Dave

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(keeping the money from the scumbag) Dear Dave, My nephew was recently left a large sum of money from a life insurance policy after his mother died. She did not have a will. His father, who has been out of the picture for some time, is about to be granted custody, and he’s been asking lots of suspicious questions about the money. We don’t trust his motives. How can we help make sure the money is protected? Anonymous Dear Anonymous, You need to talk to a lawyer, and take this matter to probate court immediately. Tell the judge about the situation and your concerns. Ask him to put your nephew’s money into a trust through a bank or other third party. Otherwise, as his guardian, there’s a good chance the father will be granted control of the money. I’m not big on bank trust departments, but I am big on keeping scumbags from taking money away from kids! - Dave * For more great ﬁnancial advice, please visit www.davesays.org.

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