FOR ALL THE MOTHERS

To Mothers who have gone on... including mine...
Shared by Treva, Eastern TN
If Roses grow in Heaven,
Lord please pick a bunch for me,
Place them in my Mother's arms
And tell her they're from me.
Tell her I love her and miss her,
And when she turns to smile,
Place a kiss upon her cheek And hold her for awhile.
Because remembering her is easy,
I do it every day,
But there's an ache within my heart
That will never go away....
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Mothers....You Gotta Love
'Em!
Shared by Angelique, TX
One morning I was called to pick up my son at the school nurse's office.
When I walked through the main entrance, I noticed a woman, curlers in
her hair, wearing pajamas.
"Why are you dressed like that?" I asked her.
"I told my son," she explained, "that if he ever did anything to
embarrass me, I would embarrass him back. He was caught cutting school.
So now I've come to spend the day with him!"
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I you Love
Something
Set it free
If it comes back,
it was and always will be yours.
If it never returns,
it was never yours to begin with.
If it just sits in your Living Room,
messes up your Stuff,
eats your Food,
uses your Telephone,
takes your Money,
and it never appeared that you actually set it free in the first place.
You either Married it, or gave Birth to it!
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Grandma's Revenge
When MY three-year-old son opened the birthday gift from his
grandmother, he discovered a water pistol. He squealed with delight and
headed for the nearest sink. I was not so pleased. I turned to Mom and
said, "I'm surprised at you. Don't you remember how we used to drive you
c-r-a-z-y with water guns?"
My Mom smiled and then replied....."I remember."
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Motherese
by Erma Bombeck
Another mothering tool used universally is "motherese." It's a language
unto its own, spoken and passed down from one mother to another. There
are hundreds of phrases, oldies but goodies, that will get a mother
through the first eighteen years of a child's life.
Consider these examples:
This is going to hurt me worse than it hurts you.
I'm doing this because I love you.
Don't talk with food in your mouth. Answer me!
Never mind, I'll do it myself.
I'm not going to speak to you again.
Children should be seen and not heard.
I'll give you something to cry about.
Keep your hands where they're supposed to be.
Why don't you grow up?
When are you going to act your age?
I'll treat you like an adult when you start acting like one.
You'll always be Mama's baby.
I'm going to send all that food you left on your plate to all the
starving Armenians.
Do you want mommy to leave the house and never come back?
You're going to drive me to an early grave.
That's what you get for not listening.
Just wait till you have children of your own!
Wait till your father gets home!
That does it. I'm sending you to your room!
Where did I fail?
What's a mother for but to suffer?
What am I? Your maid?
Fool me once, shame on me--fool me twice, I'll kill you.
If your friend jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?
If you fall off that swing and break a leg, don't come running to me.
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A Recipe for a
Happy Day
This came out of an old community cookbook.
Ingredients
1 cup friendly words
2 heaping cups of understanding
4 heaping teaspoons of time and patience
A pinch of warm personality
A dash of humor
Measure words carefully: add heaping cups of understanding using
generous amounts of time and patience; cook with gas on front burner;
keep temperature low -- DO NOT BOIL. Add a dash of humor and a pinch of
warm personality; season to taste with Spice of Life; serve in
individual molds.
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The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven