Hello to all of you!
Just wanted to wish all of the Mothers out here a wonderful day! (yes
this IS genealogy right!?)
I leave you with these thoughts.....sent to me by a friend.....
WET OATMEAL KISSES
The baby is teething.
The children are fighting.
Your husband called and said, "Eat dinner without me."
One of these days you'll explode and shout to the kids, "Why don't you
just
grow up and act your age!"
And they will.
Or,"You guys get outside and find yourselves something to do--And don't
slam
the door!"
And they don't.
You'll straighten their bedrooms until it's all neat and tidy, toys
aredisplayed on the shelf, hangers in the closet, animals caged. You'll
yell,
"Now I want it to stay this way!"
And it will.
You will prepare a perfect dinner with a salad that hasn't had all the
olives
picked out and a cake with no finger traces in the icing and you'll say
"Now
this is a meal for company."
And you will eat it alone.
You'll yell, "I want complete privacy on the phone. No screaming, Do you
hear
me?" And no one will answer.
No more plastic tablecloths stained with spaghetti.
No more dandelion bouquets.
No more iron-on patches.
No more wet, knotted shoelaces, muddy boots or rubber bands for
ponytails.
Imagine--a lipstick with a point, no babysitters for New Years Eve,
washing
clothes only once a week
No PTA meetings or silly school plays where your child is a tree
No car pools, blaring stereos or forgotten lunch money.
No more Christmas presents made of library paste and toothpicks
No wet oatmeal kisses
No more tooth fairy
No more giggles in the dark, scraped knees to kiss or sticky fingers to
clean.
Only a voice asking, "Why don't you grow up?"
And the silence echoes: "I did".
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Rita