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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

Erma Bombeck

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
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
If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Inspirational Laughter Yourself
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Clothes Growth Parents Yourself
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Death Doctor Funny Humor Inspirational Plant
The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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Animal Food Funny Lion Wrong
Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Children Funny Parents Reward Survive
Success is outliving your failures.
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Failure Growth Inspirational Live One Liner Success
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
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
Cats invented self-esteem.
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Animal Cat Invention Worth
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Food Funny Humor Moments Woman
When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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Beginning Children Room 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
Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Children Clean Funny Home Mom
When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Appearance Home Humor Time Travel Yourself

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