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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.

Erma Bombeck

If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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Chance God Growth Life Magic Moments Myself Pregnant
Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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Care Home Myself Theory Work Yourself
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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Children Family Funny Mom Myself Safety
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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Alive Existence Feeling Laughter Life Listen Myself Place Remember See Thinking Voice
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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Funny Move Theory Yourself
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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Humor Planning Surprise Wonderful
If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Inspirational Laughter Yourself
Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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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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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Family Judgement Mom Understand
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Give Up Guilty
My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Funny Kill Work Yourself
A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.

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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.

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