I know aunties aren’t supposed to have favorites, but come on…
Lukie grills his millionth s’more over the backyard fire pit last summer.
I’m in Texas for a few days visiting my sister’s family before we make the big move to Denmark. This is one of her middle children, Lukie of the Four Years. I got to say, he’s got a little piece of my heart.
For a long time Becky had all boys, which resulted in one of my favorite mothering lines ever:
“Boys! Stop spitting on the carpet! (pause) I just had it cleaned!”
It was the pause that did me in–as though if it hadn’t just been cleaned, well, she just would have let it slide.
Another motherhood quip I love came while I was talking to Jen on the phone:
“Mada! Stop hanging shovels in the neighbor’s tree!”
This was during the ‘we live dangerously era’ when Jen’s kids would regularly build towers taller than their heads out of any available sharp or heavy object.
Or how about this one, coined just this past weekend at the cousin-fest:
“Boys! Give Catie and Gillian a weapon…everyone gets a weapon.”
I don’t know…kids, they do things to ya.
What’s your favorite parenting one liner?
Me and my Lukie.
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November 13th, 2007 at 9:27 am
It would have to be ’stop chasing your brother with the carving knife / pair of scissors’ I find that I say that far too often!
November 13th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I once found myself yelling, “Nobody leaves this house without pants!”
Somehow that’s still my favorite.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
oh that is just beautiful…
what a cutie patootie!
November 13th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
“Mommy, I have a good idea. Let’s have a baby brother, leave him at the hospital until he’s four, and then bring him home and play with him. ” Oops! that’s a kid one-liner, not a mother one. Sorry, still funny.
November 14th, 2007 at 8:33 am
Oh my Lord! I am laughing my head off!
Rachelle
November 14th, 2007 at 9:04 am
I once found myself yelling, “Don’t you pee in your hair!”
November 14th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Sweetheart, puppies don’t really need to be cleaned with Windex.
November 15th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Oh, I just remembered my best and favorite Mama line of all:
“When they play the music, it means the Good Humor truck is all out of ice cream”
November 16th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Claire,
LOL! We had a similar technique…for the first four or five years we’d convinced our daughter that is was “the free music truck.” As in: “Isn’t that so nice how the free music truck comes by to give us a song right at bed time?”
R
March 18th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Oh my lord, those are so funny!
March 26th, 2008 at 3:44 am
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