For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
ERMA BOMBECKI 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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