Happiness

Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:

Why did God make mothers?

1. 1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. 2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. 3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?

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

What ingredients are mothers made of ?

1. 1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. 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. 1. We’re related.
2. 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. 1. My Mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. 2. I don’t know because I wasn’t there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. 3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?

1. 1. His last name.
2. 2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?
3. 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. 1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.
2. 2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. 3. My grandma says that Mom didn’t have her thinking cap on.

Who’s the boss at your house?

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

What’s the difference between moms & dads?

1. 1. Moms work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.
2. 2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. 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. 4. Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mom do in her spare time?

1. 1. Mothers don’t do spare time.
2. 2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?

1. 1. On the inside she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. 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. 1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get rid of that.
2. 2. I’d make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
3. 3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

Another reference for Mothers day

Mother’s Day - I guess not all mother’s are the same - a lot depends on their role models. I, for one, had a mother that would give her life for her children. She sacrificed her own happiness many times so that my sister and I could do what made us …

Here are a few tidbits that I have found wandering around my life that I thought you might enjoy.

Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

A sharp tongue can cut my own throat.

If I want my dreams to come true, I mustn’t oversleep.

Of all the things I wear, my expression is the most important.

The best vitamin for making friends….. B1.

The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.

The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.

One thing I can give and still keep…is my word.

I lie the loudest when I lie to myself.

If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished.

One thing I can’t recycle is wasted time.

Ideas won’t work unless ‘ I ‘ do.

My mind is like a parachute…it functions only when open.

The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime! It is never too late to become what I might have been.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right.. Forget about the one’s who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we’ve let them fly away. Sometimes we are so caught up in who’s right and who’s wrong that we forget what’s right and wrong. Sometimes we just don’t realize what real friendship means until it is too late.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.

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“Behind all blame is a false belief that people that make mistakes need to be punished. There is no God in that. God is love grace and mercy, this false belief is a purely human invention.”

A very wise man that I listen to a lot, Wayne Dyer, suggests that to have a happy life, we get out of blame and into purpose.

When I live in blame, I am cultivating resentments. And when I nurture resentments, it is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Having a resentment rents space to this other person or thing in my mind. Space that should be used for happy productive thoughts. I much rather rent the limited space of my mind to pleasant things and not resentments.

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Life is as good as I allow it to be.

I heard an interesting story today.

An old man was walking along the beach. Every few feet he would stop, reach down and pick up a sand dollar.

He would look and it for a bit and then throw it back at to sea.

A young man watched him go thru this process for quite a while. He was curious about these actions.

So, he went up and said to the old man “You cannot possibly make a difference and get all of these sand dollars back to the sea.”

The old man reached down and picked up another. He looked at the sand dollar and then back to the young man. He then said “but I can to this one” and threw it back to the sea.

All that we can hope to do is to make a positive change to one person each day.

Life is as good as I allow it to be.

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