My Mama Always Said........................
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My mom was well-known (and mocked, but also loved) by my group of friends for her oh-so-helpful suggestion/cure-all:
"Well, have some toast then."
We were hungry? Eat toast.
We had an upset stomach? Toast would help settle it.
We had a headache? Try a little toast and a glass of water before taking something.
We needed quick breakfast because we were running late for school? Well, make some toast and eat it as you walk.
We needed snacks for having friends over? I don't know, Cristen, there's plenty of bread for toast...oh, and there's cheese.
We ate toast with dinner. For breakfast. For snacks. When we were sick. When we weren't sick. When we were bored. When we were sad. Once, my mom fixed me some toast when I came home late at night from the carnival, after throwing up on one of the rides.
I used to say to her that I could walk into the house with an arm missing and bleeding profusely and she'd probably tell me to have a piece of toast. She said, "That, and not to bleed all over the carpet."
She told me a while back that she ran into one of my old friends, and the girl asked her, "Have you solved the world's problems with toast yet?"
"Well, have some toast then."
We were hungry? Eat toast.
We had an upset stomach? Toast would help settle it.
We had a headache? Try a little toast and a glass of water before taking something.
We needed quick breakfast because we were running late for school? Well, make some toast and eat it as you walk.
We needed snacks for having friends over? I don't know, Cristen, there's plenty of bread for toast...oh, and there's cheese.
We ate toast with dinner. For breakfast. For snacks. When we were sick. When we weren't sick. When we were bored. When we were sad. Once, my mom fixed me some toast when I came home late at night from the carnival, after throwing up on one of the rides.
I used to say to her that I could walk into the house with an arm missing and bleeding profusely and she'd probably tell me to have a piece of toast. She said, "That, and not to bleed all over the carpet."
She told me a while back that she ran into one of my old friends, and the girl asked her, "Have you solved the world's problems with toast yet?"
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I remember her words, about neighbors she warned me never to eat to others' house unless it is special day and the whole home knows about the occasion.
About marriage, she said don't marry while you are younger like I did, but live your life to the fullest and get married start at age 30. At the time I never liked her ideas but as I grow up I find that she was right and I admire her words.
forever she is my best friend I remember we talked a lot when she was alive it is so sad she left while I was teen. Now that I am feeling lonely because if she was still alive I would have been so happy.
Cheers to all mothers, they deserve love, respect and caring.
About marriage, she said don't marry while you are younger like I did, but live your life to the fullest and get married start at age 30. At the time I never liked her ideas but as I grow up I find that she was right and I admire her words.
forever she is my best friend I remember we talked a lot when she was alive it is so sad she left while I was teen. Now that I am feeling lonely because if she was still alive I would have been so happy.
Cheers to all mothers, they deserve love, respect and caring.
M
We used to have a two story house and the stairs were outside exposed to the rain. It seemed like whenever it was raining, my mom would want to move furniture up and down those stairs! she would say "can you help me move this furniture" and i would say "but it's raining" and she would say "c'mon please".
Then one day i was driving home with a friend in the car, it was raining, so i jokingly said to my friend, "oh its raining, so mom will want us to help her move furniture up and down the stairs". we pulled in the driveway, got out, mom comes running over and said "oh great your here, you can help me move this furniture up the stairs". We both cracked up laughing and my mom did not understand what was funny!
And no - my mom did not actually wait for rain to move furniture, the rain waited for her to want to move furniture!!! that is the only plausible explanation i can think of?? lol
Then one day i was driving home with a friend in the car, it was raining, so i jokingly said to my friend, "oh its raining, so mom will want us to help her move furniture up and down the stairs". we pulled in the driveway, got out, mom comes running over and said "oh great your here, you can help me move this furniture up the stairs". We both cracked up laughing and my mom did not understand what was funny!
And no - my mom did not actually wait for rain to move furniture, the rain waited for her to want to move furniture!!! that is the only plausible explanation i can think of?? lol
"Don't you ever put marbles in your mouth again!!!"
That may sound like a joke, but my mother actually said that to me right after she quite possibly saved my life when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I was playing with marbles and I put one in my mouth, and somehow it rolled to the back of my throat and became lodged there, to the point that I could barely breath, and couldn't talk at all. So I started freaking out and ran to my mother and she said "What's the matter?" and all I could do was frantically point into my mouth, and so she instinctively reached into my mouth, felt the marble and yanked it out immediately, and I could start breathing again.
I don't know if it would have been possible for me to actually have died that way if my mother wasn't there, but it definitely gave me the impression at that time that my mother was "my hero." It is also one of my earliest memories as a child (it was so traumatizing that I remember every detail of it to this day).
Here is a photo of my mother and I taken close to the same time as the above event.
Thank you Mom for giving me life (and for saving it too!!!).
That may sound like a joke, but my mother actually said that to me right after she quite possibly saved my life when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I was playing with marbles and I put one in my mouth, and somehow it rolled to the back of my throat and became lodged there, to the point that I could barely breath, and couldn't talk at all. So I started freaking out and ran to my mother and she said "What's the matter?" and all I could do was frantically point into my mouth, and so she instinctively reached into my mouth, felt the marble and yanked it out immediately, and I could start breathing again.
I don't know if it would have been possible for me to actually have died that way if my mother wasn't there, but it definitely gave me the impression at that time that my mother was "my hero." It is also one of my earliest memories as a child (it was so traumatizing that I remember every detail of it to this day).
Here is a photo of my mother and I taken close to the same time as the above event.
Thank you Mom for giving me life (and for saving it too!!!).
M
Well.... not only did i play with fire, i played with petrol!! .... i was about 8 years old i guess.... i was trying to light a fire, thought i might throw some petrol from a jar on the fire - the fire bellowed up to the jar! i got a huge surprise and dropped the jar, (didn't get burnt) needless to say, the shock from that, i never played with fire and petrol again!! hahaha
What my mom would have said if she had seen me do that??? but, growing up on a farm in the 'outback' of Australia, i got in to all kinds of mischief that would make any mom faint!! ah, my childhood growing up there was legendary
What my mom would have said if she had seen me do that??? but, growing up on a farm in the 'outback' of Australia, i got in to all kinds of mischief that would make any mom faint!! ah, my childhood growing up there was legendary
As I was reading Descyple's story about his Mom saving him I remembered two times I almost gave my poor Mom a heart attack.
When I was 12 my family went to Chicago. We were walking over a draw bridge and a boat was coming, the pole like they use when a train is coming and they want you to stop, came down, I wasn't paying attention and it almost got me right in the head, she pulled me out of the way just in time.
When I was 25 she and I were walking into a store, just as we were about to cross the parking lot to get into the store, I was talking to her and not paying attention, she pulled me out of the way of an on coming car. She then said, girl you really need to start paying attention.
Other things she said, please stop bringing home stray's, boy's and animals.
Once about a boyfriend I had, there's something about him I don't trust, never trust a man who wear's to much brown. She was right by the way, he wasn't very nice.
Once when I asked where babies come from? She replied, don't they teach you that in school?
Christmas and Easter when I would wake up at 3 am from excitement she either say, Go wait for Santa Claus, or go wait for the Easter bunny. I always did.
When I was 12 my family went to Chicago. We were walking over a draw bridge and a boat was coming, the pole like they use when a train is coming and they want you to stop, came down, I wasn't paying attention and it almost got me right in the head, she pulled me out of the way just in time.
When I was 25 she and I were walking into a store, just as we were about to cross the parking lot to get into the store, I was talking to her and not paying attention, she pulled me out of the way of an on coming car. She then said, girl you really need to start paying attention.
Other things she said, please stop bringing home stray's, boy's and animals.
Once about a boyfriend I had, there's something about him I don't trust, never trust a man who wear's to much brown. She was right by the way, he wasn't very nice.
Once when I asked where babies come from? She replied, don't they teach you that in school?
Christmas and Easter when I would wake up at 3 am from excitement she either say, Go wait for Santa Claus, or go wait for the Easter bunny. I always did.
