A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
ERMA BOMBECKMy kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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Children make your life important.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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