My mom always said "it doesn't hurt to want" when I wanted something she didn't think I needed.
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I asked if we could just send mine to those poor children... :roll:
Yep!!! Got smacked up side the head too!!! :lol::lol:

my mom, whom I hated when I was 13 to 18 and then loved as if there were tomorrow after that. And then one day, there was no tomorrow. April 25 th, today would have been my parents 68 wedding aniversery. She left us for a much loftier place on April 27 th, 1989. She was the wsame age I am now. I cry even all this time that has passed. Dad decided that he was not staying here without so he passed away about 10 years later. But my parents, especialy my mom, were all Polish and I loved every minute of it. The grand children, my son and daughter would roar with laughter when they would pinch their fingers in a door and "mom-mom" would kiss them, dirt and all and asked them.. Ahhh did you hurt your little nunners".. She and her 3 sisters had words for various parts of the body that the CIA would never know what they meant. Everytime I hit my finger and catch them in something, I get this big smile as I remember her kissing my little "nunners" to make them better. Wow, thank you to whome ever came up with this today. You made me smile and I so needed it. Thank you, thank you, thank you,

Blue (but not sad)

We always say:

"Want in one hand..."

"Life *is* unfair."

"You're only special to your loved ones (if you're lucky); don't expect the rest of the world to bow down before you."

"Enough warmth."

I'll never forget this - when I was in first grade (64 years ago!), all our bedrooms were on the second floor. I was downstairs in the kitchen with mom getting ready for breakfast before going to school. Well, daddy was getting ready for work upstairs. My baby sister was sleeping upstairs. Mom told me to go tell daddy breakfast was ready so I went to the bottom of the stairs and hollered, "Daddy, breakfast is ready". Mom said, "Can't you yell any louder?" So---I REALLY screamed, "Daddy, breakfast is ready". Mom came running in and slapped me a good one. Took me a LONG time to figure out what I did wrong!

My Mom always said "If you are going to do anything at all, do it with all you have & try to do it your best." I used that so much with my kids. Unfortunately they even applied it to screwing up. LOL But they were pretty good kids.

The only other thing I remember Mom saying that I used a lot was "Get on with life."

My FIL used to say if you can't do it right don't do it all. My FIL took one of DHs younger brothers to school and dropped him off. He decided he didn't want to be there so he walked home. When Mom(MIL) found him at home she asked him what was wrong. He said well Dad says if you can't do it right don't do it at all and I can't do my math right so I didn't do it at all and I came home! LOL He didn't get away with it but he tried!! LOL

As a teenager, I would comment on some magazine model or movie star, and wish to look more like them.

My Mama used to say," Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly runs clear through to the bone!"
I thought she was nuts at the time, but seeing what examples so many of them have been for young girls, I later saw just what she meant.

FIL used to tell the grands, if you don't stop crying I will give you something to cry about or sometimes he would open his hand and say ,cry me a hand full of tears. I hadn't thought of these in years. One of my Dads favorite saying that I remember was, They just haven't found their "nitch" in life yet but they will soon.
My kids enjoy talking about things that they remember having heard during their childhood from their Grand parents the "good old days" as they say.They were raised on a farm with their GP near by so they were with them alot and really miss having them around. All 4 of them live near the farm, 2 have homes on the farm.

Mom my was a 'fixer upper' and when she was 'fixin' things she could never remember the name of the tool or where it was in the house when she told me, "Go get the thinamabob on the whatchamagigger" I am finding I say stuff like that more and more....