Update to this post! My mother just left visiting me yesterday after ten days. This is the second time she has been to my home in Tennessee from her home in Indiana to help care for me following my lumbar spinal fusion surgery. Thanks, Mom!! Who is going to do the dishes?
“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” ~ Erma Bombeck
Shut the door! Were you born in a barn?!
Your face is going to freeze like that.
Some day when you turn around, I’m not going to be here!
You’re going to poke your eye out with that!
Don’t make me come in there…
I brought you into this world and I can take you out.
You’re going to sit there and eat that until you like it!
When I was your age…
Make sure you haven on clean underwear in case you get in an accident!
If everybody jumped off a cliff would you follow them?!
I’ll turn this car around right now!
Because I said so!
If you fall and break your leg, don’t come running to me!
And my all-time favorite: This is going to hurt me more than it is you.
Yeah, right.
Mom-isms, as they are called. I used some of them, admittedly.
Erma Bombeck summed up these Mom-isms perfectly: “Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. ‘Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?’ ‘Don’t you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?’ ‘Wasn’t there any change?’”
We’ve all had it said to us and if we are a mother, we’ve either said them or, trust me, you will.
Growing up we have it all figured out. “When I’m a parent…” We have good intentions anyway. We will NOT be like our mother!
And in no time, once you are a mother, you hear the exact same words coming out of your mouth and it will all come rushing back.
It is a different day though, and so many of them no longer apply! Some things we say today that our mothers could not possibly have said to us…
Cell phone? I’m not buying you a cell phone just because all of your friends have one.
iPad mini’s might be cheaper, let’s look at those.
What is your WIFI password?
No texting and driving!
What is it, as a child or teenager, that makes us think that our mother’s know absolutely nothing and we have the world by the tail? If I could take back all of the hateful things I said to my parents when I was a teenager? You bet I would! I always thought I knew better…until I became a mother myself.
It didn’t take long…as soon as My Three Sons were old enough to “correct”, I could hear my own mother’s voice in my head all of the time. I sounded like her, I acted like her…and now…I even look like her! Thus, the title of my post!
This is my mother’s favorite “throw-back” picture of the two of us. Mine too!
Thankfully, I was blessed with My Three Sons (and now two beautiful DIL’s, two adorable granddaughters and one on the way!) They will not have to worry about looking like their mother.
But trust me; I pray every day that once they are parents they will hear ME come out of their mouth.
That would be a Happy Mother’s Day.
Thank you Cindy. Yes she will!! 🙂
Beautiful family! I used so many of those mom-isms, and I am sure my daughter will one day too. Thanks so much for sharing at Amaze Me Monday!
Blessings,
Cindy
Thank you Mia…I like them 🙂 You are so right!! No perfect parent or children, we learn together. Blessings to you friend!
Thank you Colletta! Love your blog! Thank you for stopping by.
Love that…that you want to be like your mother. Awesome that she was blessed with such a long life. Thankful lectures made me smile! Blessings Jeanine!
Dear Nanette
Oh, you have good looking kids! Oh, parenting becomes much easier when we realize that just as much as the fact that there is no perfect child, there is also no such a thing as a perfect parent.
Blessings xx
Mia
I am so my Mom! Happy Mother’s Day!
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Colletta
The best thing for me would be for someone to say,”you’re just like you Mom”. She was the most contented and grateful person in what ever circumstance she found herself. My Dad went to visit Jesus when he was 47. She lived to 95 and was alone for over 50 years. Did she ever complain, never! What an example she is to all our family. The best are the “thankful lectures ” she would give to all her grand kids. May your day be blessed with those handsome sons. Jeanine in Oregon.
Floyd you are always so generous with your comments. And love your suggestion for “I hope I live long enough to…” Bucket list!! Blessings and thank you. 🙂
You are blessed if you had godly examples Joanne! And I hope you have a wonderful Mother’s Day!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. It is weird isn’t it, when you realize you ARE your mother??! I am sure you have a beautiful family and hope you enjoy this Mother’s Day!
That’s awesome Betty! Like you said, “just because my mother did…” You were blessed with an awesome mother. And I agree with her, put your name in for Wheel of Fortune 😉 love that show too, lol. Have a blessed Mother’s Day friend!
Oh yes, it will change! 🙂 But I would go back and relive those days all over again if I could. The empty nest syndrome is for the birds! Blessings to you and Happy Mother’s Day!
Love this post! I find myself raising my kids in the same way my mom raised us. I’m glad many of the things that my mom taught me has stayed with me. My kids are still too young to think I know nothing but I know that will change pretty soon. Have a great Mother’s Day!
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Candace I had to laugh a little at this post for my daughter just told me she is becoming more like me everyday. She uses some of the same phrase I did when she was growing up. And I used them because my mother did. I love it that we do and am grateful for a sweet hard working mother who kept us together as we grew up. My Dad was a drunk and without my mother influence in my life I am certain my life would have been much harder. I so love her and hate the fact she now is in a nursing home requiring round the clock care, illness, disease, age has taken away all the physical abilities to live alone but her mind is pretty good. She loves Wheel of Fortune and thinks watching it keeps her mind sharp. Since we live in California she is always telling me I need to get on that show so I can win some money. I tell her Mom I am not as smart as you. But she is a true mother, thinks I am awesome and I think she is too.
I remember the first time I heard my mother come out of my mouth — and the first time I heard me come out of my daughter’s mouth. I certainly related to this post. Such handsome sons. I had daughters.
Nanette, I LOVED this post! There is not a single mom who will not be able to see themselves in this post & laugh! And yet, there is so much truth in this post. I am so glad I stopped here from Essential Fri. I am so grateful I am blessed with a godly mom & grandmother before her. I pray my children hear my mom coming out of my mouth as she was so much wiser than I! Have a wonderful Mother’s Day!!!! Blessings!
Wonderful post. Funny and warm. What a gift you’ve been blessed with by your family via the hand of our Father. Another you might add to the mix, “I hope I live long enough to…” fill in the blanks… Happy Mothers Day Nannette! God bless you and yours, sister.