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Housework can kill you if done right.

Erma Bombeck

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
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Gift Morning Sad Spiritual Wake Up World
I 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.
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Alive Existence Feeling Laughter Life Listen Myself Place Remember See Thinking Voice
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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Appearance Gift Hide Price Women
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
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
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
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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Clothes Live Luck Myself Society
A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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Body Boundary Community Fun Funny Humor Myself Smile
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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Children Expectation Funny Life Oneself Sarcastic
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
Housework can kill you if done right.
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Funny Kill Work Yourself
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Courage Humor Inspirational Laughter Need Reward Tragedy Yourself
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Food Funny Life
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
I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Discover Myself Science Worry

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