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25 REASONS I OWE MY MOTHER
 
1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
'If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished
cleaning.'

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
'You better pray that will come out of the carpet.'
 
3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
'If you don't wise up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next
week!'
 
4. My mother taught me LOGIC.'Because I said so, that's why.'
 
5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
'If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going
shopping with me.'
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6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT..
'Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident.'
 
7. My mother taught me IRONY
'Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about.'
 
8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
'Shut your mouth and eat your dinner.'
 
9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
'Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!'
 
10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
You'll sit there until those vegetables are gone.'
 
 11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
 'This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.'
 
12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
'If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!'
 
13 My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
'I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.'
 
14.My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
'Stop acting like your father!'
 
15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
'There are millions of less fortunate children in this world
who don't have wonderful parents like you do.'
 
16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
'Just wait until we get home.'
 
17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
'You are going to get it when you get home!'
 
18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
'If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to stick that way.'
 
19. My mother taught me ESP..
'Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?'
 
20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
'When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me.'
 
21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
'If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up.'
 
22.My mother taught me GENETICS.'You're just like your father.'
 
23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
'Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a stable?'
 
24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
'When you get to be my age, you'll understand.'
 
25. And my favorite:
My mother taught me about JUSTICE
'One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you.........

 


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gerard colleary
05/13/2012 7:49pm

Because she is my mother

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05/14/2012 1:17am

unbelieveable, did you watch me grow up

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Trisha
05/13/2012 7:50pm

The Best Thing A Man Can do for HIs Children is to Truly Love Their Mother

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Dave bishop
05/13/2012 7:59pm

Look at me when I am talking to you
"Don't you look at me that way"

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05/13/2012 8:05pm

As I lost my Father when I was 2 I owe my upbringing to my Mother. She never showed fear of anything that I can remember. But two things she taught us besides doing Gods will was to Honor thy Mother and Father 2nd only to God and be Prideful in all we do. I have tried to live my life knowing they are watching and take great Pride in showing them their Son works to make them Proud in every way. As a Husband, Father and Grandfather I take pride in all I do because of them and for that I Honor their exsistance. Mother left us in 2005 but I know she is Proud of me and my Father is Proud of the job she did raising us without him.

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Cindy Luce
05/13/2012 8:08pm

My mother taught me about cleanliness. "If you don't knock that off, I'm gonna put something on you that Ajax can't take off!"

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05/13/2012 8:11pm

How rich can a man be, if he has a child without a mother

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Georgia
05/13/2012 8:44pm

And my favorite, "Pretty is as pretty does." of I heard this once I heard it 1,000 times!

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05/13/2012 9:10pm

Thank you for the 25 reasons above,theytook me back and helped me to rember my mom, thank you god bless you ,im 59 yers old and still miss my mom,When are we gona get to here OKIE, tell us weved R VED??soon i pray...

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LovelyMe
05/13/2012 11:53pm

Wow, all these comments, bring back so, so many memories, especially the one: "I bought you into this world,i will take you out"! Wow I miss my parents so much and I'm only 45, my parents left me 6 yrs ago!

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good care giver
05/14/2012 12:14am

Thank you Mother, for your example of loving your family, in want and in plenty. I miss you.

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UNEEK
05/14/2012 1:36am

Dearest Mom,
If the best of intentions would have gotten me anywhere, I would be in the Guinness Book of Records, I would be a successful country music singer, I would be rich and famous, I would have stuck with a diet and lost the weight, I would always be early or at least on time for all appointments, I would have been better at a lot of things, including maybe a daughter and I would have written this letter a long time ago.

You may have told me more than once and thought it many times to yourself; but I remember very well about a year ago, in my office you telling me that I was too sensitive.

You might think that since we do have our different opinions about a lot of things, that I would want to argue with you but I have a surprise for you. I will agree that I am very sensitive and it has made for a lot of extreme, unforgettable pain in my life.

As an adult now, I feel it is a choice how and where I wear my heart. I choose and do not apologize for being sensitive and I thank you for teaching me this as a child. I would like to tell a little story and explain. Thank you for your patience and kindness here as I continue.

I remember very well as a child many times that you would cry when my daddy talked to you. I remember some of the conversations but more I remember seeing and feeling your sadness.

Were you being "too" sensitive ? Were you being weak? No, I do not think so. I do not know why that it seems most of society equates being sensitive with being also weak. I guess I "could choose" to go along with them but I choose not.
You taught me something else too mom. You taught me "Strength".

I feel it takes "strength" to be certain and stand on your guard, and it takes lots of "courage" to have doubt and let down your guard. –-- To risk being wrong and attacked.

It takes a lot of "strength" to conquer and overcome but it takes "courage" to surrender. --- To risk being humiliated, and taken advantage of.

It takes a lot of "strength" to endure pain & abuses, and hide them. It takes even more "courage" to show the pain, deal with, and stop the abuse. ---- To be looked upon as weak and too sensitive.

It takes "strength" to stand alone, and real "courage" to lean on someone. ---To risk being insecure and dependent.

It takes "strength" to survive and it takes "courage" to live. --- To risk being labeled selfish.

It takes "strength" to love { for not all are so easily lovable } and it takes "courage" to be loved. --- To risk being rejected.

As a child, my understanding was that to be strong and tough you could not be weak and sensitive. I feel that in reality life has taught me that it really takes one to be the other.

It takes a lot of strength to "be" sensitive. I "feel" even though there are high consequences to being tough, feeling hard, feeling resentment and anger , they are "easier" for some.

The thought and reasoning may come from "if we are tough and hard — we won’t "feel" pain, so therefore we will not be weak and too sensitive.

I have seen you over the years struggle and fight to be strong — so not to feel the agony of pain and sadness. When the heart is seemingly in the right place and only wants to be free of the pain; life seems so unfair at times.

For now and for a very long time you still feel the pain. The sad part for me is not being able to take the pain away and thinking that you may feel you just were not "strong" enough. You weren’t tough enough.

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05/14/2012 10:56am

Who had an encyclopedic memory of yours like and dislikes but then shared your "naked baby on the rug pictures" when you were over ten?
Who had a purse so full for every possible need, who cried with you when you were hurt - then (until you started saying aw, ma,stop) kissed it to make it better?
Who was so proud of everything you made or did-but then even for straight A's encouraged you to challenge yourself to do better and more - "don't they give A+ too?"
Who counseled as you grew," if your not sure it's right or wrong-just imagine I'm watching, and I know you'll do the best thing?"
Who knew that for each day she spent being with you, it brought ever closer that day when you would soar all on your own; yet keeps a light in a special corner of her heart that shines for you alone.. As if to say this is for you my child you are always welcome home?
Mom ---that's who

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Rubyred
05/14/2012 8:29pm

Remember:
After getting what you thought was the beating of your life and you crying uncontrollably and your mom would yell out "If you don't stop that crying, I'm going to give you something to cry about."
You're thinking "I thought you just did."

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