Thirteen Things I swore I would Never Do or Say while I was young BUT DID….
1. “Eat your food, there are starving people in Ethopia”
2. Go to the store looking like a very worn out, no make-up, don’t care what I look like wife.
3. “Just you wait till your Father gets home buddy”
4. “I don’t care what other people are doing, if they are jumping off cliffs would you!”
5. I use to get so upset that my Mom could never find her keys, she would make all of us kids “find her keys”….well guess what, guess who….can’t ever find her keys!
6. Sound like my Mother. I swear I hear her everyday in my house, even though she lives across the US (love you Mom).
7. Not eat dinner at the dinner table but instead in front of the TV. (I swore I would never do that…)
8. Say improper words like “balls of steel”, “bling-bling”, “dude” (remember I have “almost teenage boys, and as I do NOT says these words on regular basis, they have come out of my mouth in a moment of weakness”)
9. Set the toilet seat down. You see I was from a mostly female family, the seat up position was not a problem….UNTIL I GOT MARRIED!
10. Have to go down the street to apologize, because it was MY kid who punched someone. You see I thought I would have raised perfect kids….HA!
11. BECAUSE I TOLD YOU SO, THAT IS WHY!!
12. Ask, “are you sure you are using YOUR toothbrush?”
Last but not least:
13. Explain to three boys what a jock strap is, have to stand in line to buy three jock straps, and then see them “knocking” themselves because they are so excited they finally do have “balls of steel” (sorry if that offend anyone…)
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hahahaaaaaaaaaa! I am sorry I am stilling cracking up about the last one! My nephew did that too!
I am sure I will be just like you… I promised myself I would NEVER say things like “becasue I am your mom and thats why” or “I told you so” but we shall see… I bet they just pop outta my mouth when T gets older! Great post!!!
Wow, I just asked my kids the tooth brush question this morning:)
Ha that is too funny. I say those things and I cringe.
HA HA HA!!!! That’s a funny list! I’m sure you’re still absolutely gorgeous when you go out without make up.
LOL! I think I’ve said or done most of those, too. I have all boys, the youngest just about to become a teen-ager, and buying jock straps with Mom for baseball was…interesting!
MY TT is about favorite CDs.
You are so funny! I don’t have kids yet, but I see myself turning into my mother everyday! AAAHHHHHHH! J/K, she’s a good mom!
as a mother of three boys…I LOVE #13
11. BECAUSE I TOLD YOU SO, THAT IS WHY!!
No Kidding! I swore I would never say that but it came out of my mouth just a few minutes ago.
Great idea for a list!! I don’t know if I will ever say the first one on your list, but I imagene I probably will. I remember hearing it as a kid and it has never made sense to me. If we eat our food or if we throw it in the trash can, there’s not a way on earth that bit of food will make it’s way to Ethiopia. Hehe. I’ll probably end up telling my kids the same thing though.
Ha! This one was fun for me, since I have 3 girls and NO boys. The toilet seat is always a trip around here. After my father and brothers come for a visit, I have to go around and check all the seats, so little princess tushy’s don’t fall in.
LOL! It always comes to this - us sounding just like our mother!!!
I’ve said some of those things too! Fun list.
Isn’t it funny that no matter how hard we try not to, we become our parents!
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Well…isnt some of htat a mom’s job?!? LOL
Too funny. Becoming Mom is the big one for me, especially since my youngest brother is 14 (18 years younger than me) and makes a point of pointing out all the times I sound just like Mom. I always look at him and remind him it was she ho trained me in being a mom, of course I sound just like her.
And every last one of us really does turn into our mother. I’m cracking up, this is so true. Even when I catch myself sounding exactly like my Mom, I just can’t stop myself. And it never occurred to me there could be some tricky moments in being mom to boys. #13 is a riot!
Too funny! I love this list. When I was younger, I swore I would stitch my lips shut if I ever said some of the things she did. Now I’m older, and though I still don’t have my kids yet, I have sounded just like her and that’s fine with me.
I get her now. Thanks so much for commenting on my T13!
How about “When you have kids, I hope they’re just like you.” My mother did and I did.
hahahaha!
Some of those were very funny…
I do many of the same things..
Great TT
My TT is up
Have a wonderful day!
Wait. I never said I wouldn’t do #8, dude.
Try explaining #13 to a 13 y/o girl whose little brother just started football. “What IS that thing, Mom? It looks like some weird thong for guys.”
“Yeah, honey. That’s it.”
love this list, I am laughing out loud
Oh, gosh, you mean I’m going to have to buy my sweet little 2 year old boy a jock strap one day??? Of course, before that day comes, I will have to buy my daughter a training bra. . .