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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.

Erma Bombeck

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Family Fun Herself Mom Relationship Yourself
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Determination Difference Fame Greatness Success
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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Children Food Funny Myself Place Stay
It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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Funny Move Theory Yourself
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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Fate Food Myself Night Oneself Thinking Woman
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Home Ideas Myself See Work
Every puppy should have a boy.
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Animal Boy Company Dog Friendship
Children make your life important.
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Children Important Literature One Liner Worth
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
Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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Endurance Family Friendship Funny Garden Place
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
A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Kindess Night Oneself Parents Price
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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Food Preparation Thankful Time
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Act Children Forgiveness Love

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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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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