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.
ERMA BOMBECKA grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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Children make your life important.
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