So many of Doak Descendants are Earning the Title of Mother

We just got back from a 2 week stay with our daughter in Aptos, California. I felt like our daughter Kirsten as well as her married sisters and sister-in-laws are running a marathon. To watch and hear all they do to earn the title "Mother" is literally exhausting. If you look at the links on the AADoak Blog you will see the big job that so many of his descendants are undertaking in working to raise their families and to teach them and to keep a semblance of peace and harmony in their homes. It is inspiring to watch them work so hard to be a credit to their family name. It was interesting that one evening after a long day for Kirsten, a Cameron -Meacham cousin sent this article which I read to her and the next morning my brother Doug Meacham sent the almost exact test to earning the title Mother. All I can say is - keep in the race and do your best and you will all earn the title.

THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES
Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks . Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes . There is no fast food . Each man must take care of his 3 kids, keep his assigned house clean , correct all homework, and complete science projects, cook , do laundry , and pay a list of 'pretend' bills with not enough money. In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week . Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time
--no emailing. Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment , a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment . He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Urgent Care. He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a social function . Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house , planting flowers outside and keeping it presentable at all times . The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done . The men must shave their legs , wear makeup daily , adorn themselves with jewelry, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes , keep fingernails polished and eyebrows groomed . During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties.
They must attend weekly school meetings, church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting . They will need to read a book to the kids each night and in the morning , feed them , dress them , brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:00 am . A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information : each child's birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size and doctor's name. Also the child's weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child's favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up. The kids vote them off the island based on performance. The last man wins only if... he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice. If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25 years, eventually earning the right to be called Mother ! After you get done laughing, send this to as many females as you think will get a kick out of it and as many men as you think can handle it. Just don't send it back to me.... I'm going to bed .