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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.

Erma Bombeck

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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Bed Boredom Family Mom Myself
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Communication Inspirational Life Listening Suffering
Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Children Encouragement Independence Lose
I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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Funny Give Up Myself See Sex Trust Woman
I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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Fate Food Myself Night Oneself Thinking Woman
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
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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Children Courage Funny Inspirational Moments Parents White
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Home Result Stop Work
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Food Improvement Time
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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Children Food Funny Myself Place Stay
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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Evening Failure Feeling Goodness Misery Sun
Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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Live Play Religious See Travel Understand Yourself
Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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Care Deep Emotion Funny Hard Love Pride Quiet Reality Yourself
A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Family Fun Herself Mom Relationship Yourself
Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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Age Eye Kind Memories Old Perspective Thinking
Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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God Help Herself Life Maguc Pregnant Time Woman

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