Sunday, May 14, 2006

Why God Made Mom's


(from left to right: Me, Cathie, Mom, Janet [other SIL] and Bebo)
(photo below: Mom and Howard)
(photo after that: Granny Bebo)
(photo at end: MyMaternal Grandmother)


Answers given by elementary school age children to the following questions...

Why did God make mothers?
1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other Mom?
1. We're related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your Mom?
1. My Mom has always been my Mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did Mom need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your Mom marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mom didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?
1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goof ball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between moms and dads?
1. Moms work at work & work at home, & dads just go to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power 'cause that's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.
4. Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your Mom do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don't do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your Mom perfect?
1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd dye it, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your Mom, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
2. I'd make my Mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on her back.

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THE MOMMY TEST
I was out walking with my 4 year old daughter. She picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that.
"Why?" my daughter asked.
"Because it's been laying outside, you don't know where it's been, it's dirty and probably has germs" I replied.
At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked, "Wow! How do you know all this stuff?"
"Uh," ...I was thinking quickly, "All moms know this stuff. It's on the Mommy Test. You have to know it, or they don't let you be a Mommy."
We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information.
"OH...I get it!" she beamed, "So if you don't pass the test you have to be the daddy."
"Exactly" I replied back with a big smile on my face and joy in my heart.
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"Dear Lord," the preacher began with arms extended and a rapturous look on his upturned face, "without you we are but dust..."
He would have continued, but at that moment one very obedient little girl (who was listening carefully) leaned over to her mother and asked quite audibly in her shrill little girl voice, "Mommy, WHAT is butt dust?"
Church was pretty much over at that point...

Happy Mother's Day everyone. (Thank you for sending this to me Glenice)

18 comments:

Diane said...

Wow, pics of Eve and Bebo. Blimey.

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers over there. Ours is in March, which means my mom feels a bit left out when my brother's card doesn't come from Canada until May. But, hey. She gets 2 mother's days. :o)

Bailey Stewart said...

Yeah, pics of Eve and Bebo. These were taken around 1995, but hey, it's newer than the baby pic. *gg*

Anonymous said...

I love these! I can just imagine my grandkids giving these answers.
:)
Thanks for posting my favorite Granny Bebo picture!

Bailey Stewart said...

That's my favorite Granny Bebo picture too.

Toni Anderson said...

Awhhh! Lovely. I'm especially fond of the butt dust comment.

Bailey Stewart said...

Are you familiar with dust butts Toni? LOL

Anonymous said...

I love these pictures :) I know I have seen them before but they are so wonderful! Bebo is so happy with all her grandbabies :)

I am one lucky Mom! I get to be tied to the computer all morning helping a client :( but that is OK really :) we went out to dinner Friday and went to Lowes and got my gift :) my 2nd favorite store :) I got a beautiful water fountain that is up and running in my rose garden this morning!!! Such a wonderful sound...running water :) It is right outside my office window so now not only do I see my roses I see the water fountain :)

I love those stories! And of course brought tears to my eyes!

Oh and my son made me scrambled eggs this morning for breakfast...he can be such a good kid when he wants to be :)

Bailey Stewart said...

Good for him! And your daughter?

Love the idea of the fountain. Our roses have bloomed and gone.

Sorry about the client - maybe it won't take much of the day and you can enjoy the rest with the kids.

Anonymous said...

ROFL!!! Those are great! Love the pictures, too! :)

Bailey Stewart said...

Thanks Tori. These are the women of my family who were/are the most influential in my life. I loved my father's mother, but she didn't have as much of an impact as my mother's mom.

Anonymous said...

Oh she would be still in bed!!! teenagers :)

Our roses bloom all summer...well that is if I get them dead headed! But they love our hot dry summers here :)

Bailey Stewart said...

Oh, we're supposed to do something with them? Maybe that's why they bloom in the Spring and not again for the rest of the year. LOL

Maybe she'll make you lunch?

Okay - gotta get the dust off this butt and get packing.

Brandy said...

Yeah, pictures. You all look so happy. Happy Mother's day. Love these, especially the mommy test!!

Bailey Stewart said...

I thought the mommy test was quite accurate. Happy Mother's Day Brandy.

Bailey Stewart said...

Peggy - we can be, when we're talking to each other. LOL

Michele said...

Love the humor.
Fun post.

:-)

Meretta said...

Lovely posts on your mom and Mother's Day, Eve. And I love your family photographs!

Bailey Stewart said...

Thank you Michele and Meretta.