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.
10 comments
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!
I once found myself yelling, “Nobody leaves this house without pants!”
Somehow that’s still my favorite.
oh that is just beautiful…
what a cutie patootie!
“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.
Oh my Lord! I am laughing my head off!
Rachelle
I once found myself yelling, “Don’t you pee in your hair!”
Sweetheart, puppies don’t really need to be cleaned with Windex.
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”
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
Oh my lord, those are so funny!
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