I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
ERMA BOMBECKI just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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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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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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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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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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