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Things Learned From Mom

I received the following email the night before Mother’s Day from my sister, who started the ball rolling with some nostalgic thoughts to which most can relate:

Happy Mother's Day to y'all!  Let's share our Mom memories...this time in "things Mom taught me".

Then she listed her’s:

1.   Always unplug every electrical appliance/doohickey for the duration of a thunderstorm. 

2.   Scissors, tape, paper towels, and aluminum foil are extravagant luxuries to be hidden from small children.
 
3.   The Sunday comics may also double as gift wrap.

4.   Families should eat dinner together.

5.   Doors & windows should be double and triple-checked to ensure they're locked before leaving the house.

6.   Moms spend much less $$ on groceries if husbands and children do not accompany them to the supermarket.

7.   Hot dogs are made from scrap meat.

8.   Moms really DO have eyes in the back of their heads!

9.   All kids must be born in a barn.

10.  Home-made birthday cakes are the best kind.

11.  It's perfectly okay for girls to climb trees, as long as they don't fall out.

 

Sandy learned:

1. Kids act like they have been raised by a pack of wolves.

2. Their room always looks like a cyclone struck it.

3. Kids can't have seconds of a favorite if they can't eat all of what's already on their plate. Also, their eyes are bigger than their stomach. Early childhood is the first awareness of geography and socio-economic status elsewhere that kids in India are starving.

4. According to Mom, Dad didn't get us practical shoes, so she preferred to accompany us shoe-shopping, (though we preferred to go with Dad because he always let us get the non-sensible  and non-practical shoes that we liked.

5. Dressing warmly is heartily recommended because you're not going to a fashion show.

6. Room-cleaning was great leverage, because you can't go anywhere until you clean your room.  Santa Claus won't even come unless you do this and mothers will call him and advise him on this matter. Mothers are tight with Santa Claus.

7. You can't be expecting to be able to eat dinner if you're disobedient enough to go buy a bunch of candy soon before it, especially if you have been told not to (Mike.)

8. Mothers have low tolerance and appreciation for music that is savored by teens, which usually prompts statements like "Turn that thing down" or "How can you stand that noise?"

9. Kids must change from their good (school) clothes before they go outside and play.

10. There are no hiding places for cookies and similar delectibles that can't be found by determined kids.

11. If all your friends were going to jump in the lake, you shouldn’t want to do it too.  

12. Moms as loving as ours stayed up all night sewing outfits for us for occasions that were important to us, like having new Easter outfits and for other crucial events like homecoming, Halloween or graduations.

 

Sister Nita learned:

1.  Cold water is a great way to stop a tantrum.

2. Kids won't just die if they are forced to get the less expensive, less stylish shoes.

3. It's possible to raise 6 (absolutely perfect) kids and still remain sane.

4. Money really doesn't grow on trees.

5. A pool pass is a really good summer baby sitter.

6. There's still plenty of winter left when you buy the winter coat for January's sale price.

7. Kids WILL grow into those clothes that were too big, thereby extending the wearing life of the clothing.

8. If you save all those almost used bars of soap and put them together, you can make a new bar of soap.

9. Flour and water can be used as a substitute for paste

10. Sometimes the best thing you can do for your kids is not to do (say) anything.

11. Some moms make parenting look easy (not understood until you become a parent

 

Mike learned:

Happy Mothers Day to you all!!!

1.  If your best friend jumped in the lake, clearly you would too.

2.  Some things CAN be hidden where moms can never find them....freezer key, for example.

3.  Pies and people both have 'crust.'

4.  Clothes dried on the line really do smell better.

5.  Clipping coupons is a social activity.

6.  Toothpaste spitting competitions are not an acceptable part of the nighttime ritual.

7.  Having your mouth washed out with soap definitely gets your attention.

8.  Nothing beats a box of Cracker Jack and watching 'The Flying Circus With Don Ameche' on a Friday night.

9.   Handmade costumes are way better than store bought.

10.  Dogs dragging their butt on the carpet is always hilarious, except to Moms.

 

Sherry says: I think you about covered it, except that "Wait ‘til your father gets home" .. was NOT a good thing!

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