DONK

I remember that one and if we did something wrong it was wait till your father gets home.

winipb2

My grand mother used to say If wishes was fishes then everyone would have plenty to eat.

just_the_scraps_m'am

"i'll wash your mouth out with soap"
"you're so loud, you'd wake the dead!"
"kids are supposed to be seen & not heard"

Quilt Mom

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

carlasuewho

Uh, some of the things I said to my kids, I wouldn`t DREAM of saying to my grandkids! [IMG]http://i564.photobucket.com/albums/s...tofthekids.gif[/IMG]

For one thing, I learned from my kids that it will be repeated with perfect diction in a crowded airport when a flight`s been missed and the family as a whole is on it`s last nerve.
Disclaimer: Situation is hypothetical.[IMG]http://i564.photobucket.com/albums/s...uewho/thud.gif[/IMG]

just_the_scraps_m'am

the only time i remember mama was laughin' too hard to say anything....we had stopped at a red light and all of us was arguing in the back seat of the station wagon as to who was gettin' the window.....well, didn't dad get out of the car, open the back door, took us all out, & spanked every one of us & put us back in. boy, were we quiet then. what a world!
it's still pretty comical forty some years later....

Marjpf

Then would we only have fish to eat?

bronnyb

Thank you for this thread.
We lost mum in 07 - three weeks before her 57'th anniversary. I'm still coming to terms with that.

I realised I was turning into my Mum when I caught myself saying "What a NICE young man!"

However, the saying that I use all the time is: 'SMILE & POINT YOUR TOES'
I had thought it was a saying for me alone, as I used to go to ballet lessons, and as the oldest and tallest in the class, would either be the first or last on stage.
I take it now to mean: Go on out in the world, day by day and put a pleasant face on it all, leave your problems behind - show the world that you are just as talented/worthy as the rest of them!
It turns out at the funeral, that she used this phrase for my sister too (11years older - must have done ballet too!)

Not a saying but a doing... Mum taught me to bow at the Full Moon 7 times. I drag my youngest son out with me to do this every month - generally in public. We still see this as a Nancy-ism.

thanks
bronny

Jim's Gem

Same here, always heard about those starving children in Africa. I told her we should mail it to them. Smack!!!

"life isn't fair" Heard that all the time. I then would say to my kids, "life isn't fair, never has been never will be" I've heard them repeat that!

Jim's Gem

"O dark Thirty" Is what DH and I always say when it's way too early to get up.