More Things My Mother Taught me….

1. My mother taught me stamina: ‘You’ll sit there until all that tripe is gone’.
2. My mother taught me about weather: ‘Your room looks like a tornado went through it’.
3. My mother taught me anticipation: ‘Just wait until you get home’.
4. My mother taught me about receiving: ‘You’re going to get it when you get home’.
5. My mother taught me about medical science: ‘If you keep crossing your eyes, you’ll stick like it’.
6. My mother taught me ESP: ‘Put your jumper on, I know when you are cold’.
7. My mother taught me to be an adult: ‘If you don’t eat your beans you will never grow up’.
8. My mother taught me genetics: Just wait till your father gets home’.
9. My mother taught me about my roots: Shut that door, do you think you were born in a barn?’.
10. My mother taught me wisdom: ‘When you get to my age you will understand’.
11. My mother taught me justice: ‘One day you will have kids and I hope they turn out just like you’.