My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
ERMA BOMBECKIt is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Children make your life important.
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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