Mom’s Dictionary
AMNESIA: The condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to make love again. DUMBWAITER: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert. FAMILY PLANNING: The art of spacing your...
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A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing....
View ArticleMother’s Thoughts, A
As my children were getting older and seemed not to need me as much as before, I was reflecting on their life and came up with this poem: They’ve grown up so fast Lord These children you’ve put in my...
View ArticleSo True…
AMNESIA: Condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to make love again. DUMBWAITER: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert. FAMILY PLANNING: The art of spacing your...
View ArticleHow To Know Whether or Not You Are Ready to Have a Baby
Mess Test: Smear peanut butter on the sofa and curtains. Now rub your hands in the wet flowerbed and rub on the walls. Cover the stains with crayons. Place a fish stick behind the couch and leave it...
View ArticleMountain, The
There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one day, and as part of their plundering of...
View ArticleUdder Mom
Our family is a case of “his, mine and ours”. It is the second time around for both of us, and we each brought one child into the marriage, plus have two that are “ours”. Although my husband and I...
View ArticleGardenia, The
Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, one white gardenia was delivered anonymously to me at my house. There was never a card or note, and calls to the florist were in vain, because the...
View ArticleLimits of Love, The
After the divorce, her teenage daughter became increasingly rebellious. It culminated late one night when the police called to tell her that she had to come to the police station to pick up her...
View ArticleWubber Wooban
She was almost three years old. She had long ringlets the exact color of honey, a cute little dimple in her cheek, and she was my baby sister. Her name was Angela, but my mom only named her that so she...
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