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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

Erma Bombeck

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Family Judgement Mom Understand
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
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
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
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
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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Funny Give Up Myself See Sex Trust Woman
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Children Courage Funny Inspirational Moments Parents White
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Courage Dream Kindness Yourself
Housework can kill you if done right.
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Funny Kill Work Yourself
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Food Improvement Time
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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Body Born Children Deep Mom Pregnant
Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Act Children Forgiveness Love
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
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Home Result Stop Work
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
Cats invented self-esteem.
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Animal Cat Invention Worth

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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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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