Out of the mouths of babes: Our family story in memes

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Out of the mouths of babes

I miss these sweet (and sometimes hilarious!) conversations

Thanks to Facebook for being my platform to memorialize these moments. Although I have to admit that, about half of the time, when Facebook shows me a Memory…I don’t know what the heck I was talking about!

Said by a wailing child because Mean Mommy wouldn’t take everybody to Knowledge Tree after school.

I don’t remember what my husband said to make me cry. Nothing bad; he’s the ultimate good guy. But I was running on no sleep and tears came as easily as breathing. But when my daughter saw my tears, she got in my husband’s face, told him off, then came back to me with this gem.

Poor guy wasn’t allowed to take his socks off from about ages 4-10.

At 17, she’s still the observant one of the family.

I’m not into fat-shaming, but I am into reality. One day these kids who are a bit overweight but have always been told they’re perfect are going to go to high school. As soon as they have their first run-in with the Mean Girls, they going to come home, hunt their well-meaning mamas down, and yell, “LIAR!” It’s great to work toward the ideal, but you don’t get there by ignoring the real.

I promise there are more, but they typically involve pee-pees, nothin’s (the opposite of pee-pees) and bottoms, and my teens might smother me in my sleep.

Out of the mouths of teens and tweens

When does it stop? When they’re 30? Or when they become parents?

The ones they wish they could just take back…

You know you’re an older mom when…

I worked as a Graceland tour guide all through high school and college. I guess my Elvis obsession must have rubbed off on them.

I’m going with the latter.

Hey, Cyndi was cool!

And just because it happens so rarely…

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What about you?

My kids can’t be the only ones who said adorable, hilarious things when they were little. What are the stories you’ll be telling at rehearsal dinners and family reunions? Comment away!

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As an added bonus, here’s a picture of the knuckleheads responsible for all of this frivolity and wisdom. And it’s so old you’d never be able to pick them out of a crowd, so I don’t have to worry about their teen egos.

But only if you know somebody who will love it!