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Miss my mom.
Very funny. And true.
OUCH!… you got me…36 years since I lost my Mom at 48 years and 8 months…..
STILL HAVE MY MOM, TOUGHEST GODDAMNED LADY EVER!! AM WITH HER FOR THE WEEK IN PACIFIC PALISADES CA, TAKING THE ABUSE AND DESERVING ALL OF IT!! I WOULD BE PROUD WERE I ONE TENTH WORTHWHILE!!
RIP DAD, MOM IS STILL A PAIN, DOING THE BEST I CAN!! LOVE YOU BOTH, ALWAYS AND FOREVER!!
It depends on what kind of an asshole you were when growing up as a kid. Some moms work harder than others for sure. They are forced to work harder if they give a tin-shit about their kid.. My mom didn’t have to work hard at being a mom; it just came natural to her. I have never met a better mom than mine, and that is the fact, Jack. if my mom went head to head against, say, Mother Theresa, my mom would win 20-0.
I watched my wife give birth to my two kids. I wouldn’t volunteer to do that.
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Send your Mom some flowers
You’re the reason she pees when she coughs!
Now that I know what Bill Burr thinks of PDT I don’t care for him, but he is right on this. Some of the shit I’ve done for a paycheck would cause employers to be facing charges nowadays. If a mom gets to stay at home and provide a safe place for the children she has a great and rewarding role (I’m not say it’s a piece of cake) to play. It’s because I really did risk my neck mrs6pak was able to stay home. And I couldn’t be happier for it. Toughest job in the world? No.
What could be more important than bringing another human into existence and loving/guiding him/her?
In addition to the usual Mom things, my Mom led me to God. She gave me the greatest gifts ever and I’m not talking about items. Her love and wisdom were steady and strong.
I didn’t even realize it was her that led me to Him until I was an adult and contemplated why I already knew the stories of the Bible when I was studying it for the first time. ‘Why do I know this story? How is it I know the moral of it already?’
As a child, Dad filled my world intellectually. But he died when I was 13 and it was Mom that guided me with advice on how to deal with life’s problems. I just didn’t know it was based on God’s Word until later.
Looking back as the youngest and now the only one left of my original nuclear family, I am only sure of my Sister and myself being with God in eternity. Neither parent mentioned Jesus and odds are, my Brother still denied Him by the time he died.
Mom is always with me. Her lessons and love are the voice I hear when I ask myself ‘What is the right thing to do here?’.
I miss you, but I’m carrying on your love.
Great thread…old style Mom’s did threading, stitch and needlepoint style. Singer sewing machines??
Mom will be gone three years in a week…was 94. Seen in all.
@3:09 in the BB was most prescient.
Great point / counter point.
Happy Mother’s Day we ALL had/have or are one, a mother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er19SQWk3Z8
Miss you.
Thank our Moms for teaching us the fundamentals in life:
TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE: “If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”
RELIGION: “You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”
TIME TRAVEL: “If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”
LOGIC: ” Because I said so, that’s why.”
MORE LOGIC: “If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”
FORESIGHT: “Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”
IRONY: “Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.”
OSMOSIS: “Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”
CONTORTIONISM: “Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”
STAMINA: “You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”
WEATHER: “This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.”
HYPOCRISY: “If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!”
CIRCLE OF LIFE: “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.”
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: “Stop acting like your father!”
ENVY: “There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do.”
ANTICIPATION: “Just wait until we get home.”
RECEIVING: “You are going to get it when you get home!”
MEDICAL SCIENCE: “If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way.”
ESP: “Put your sweater on; don’t you think I know when you are cold?”
HUMOR: “When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don’t come running to me.”
Money Management: When the Ice Cream truck is playing music it means they’re out of ice cream.
HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT: “If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.”
GENETICS: “You’re just like your father.”
ROOTS: “Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?”
WISDOM: “When you get to be my age, you’ll understand.”
And my personal favorite:
JUSTICE: “One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you.”
Having just lost my Mom, I am in tears. Not of sadness, although I do miss her, but joy. Being with her when she left us was the most precious moment of my life that I will treasure. I watched her leave this world to join her Jesus and family and dear friends that she had lost. She traded her worn out body for the joy of Heaven and I am so happy for her.
She and Dad made me who I am. Their love and sacrifice will now live on in me and I will honor that as their legacy.
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. You now have the best gift ever. I love you.
My mom passed away last May 19th, she was a month short of 93. I miss her a lot even though she was crazier than hell because of dementia her last couple of yrs. She and my dad were married 65+yrs. before he died in Feb. 2018 from COPD. I spent most of that last yr. taking care of both of them as a semi permanent care giver and it was probably the most difficult but rewarding thing I ever did for them. Thanks mom, you did a great job with the 4 of us boys who all turned into good men. And thanks for taking care of dad for 65 yrs. as well as us, you did very well.
No matter how much you may be tempted to believe you brought yourself up, understand that for the first 8-10 years of your life your mother really did have the power to end your future. I am forever grateful that my mom had the love and energy to not only take care of my basic physical needs, but she tended to my insatiable curiosity about the world around me and encouraged me beyond measure. This, with five other children clamoring for the same attention. Were things perfect? Absolutely not. And that’s a good thing, too.