If You Still Speak to Your Ex…

Backstory: I broke up with my girlfriend after 7 years.

Mom: Ommm, how are you feeling, Dear? Are you very depressed?
Me: I’m doing all right, mom.
Mom: Do you still keep contact with her? Do you two occassionally speak?
Me: Yeah, sometimes.
Mom: Then tell her to return my Tupperware plastic boxes, will you?

How to Mind Everyone Else’s Business

Backstory: My mother doesn’t want to set up a facebook account, because she doesn’t want anyone “knowing her business.”  She, however, wants to know everyone else’s business.

Could you discreetly check B’s Facebook page to see if the baby was born and how she’s doing….

Maybe the Camera Adds 10 Pounds?

me: started the hair trials for the wedding, here is a pic of the first one.

mom: Sweet…kinda… R u putting on a little weight or is the hairstyle doing that????

And…..Killed

Mom: i dont know if you guys heard this, but if you are ever forced to withdraw from your atm, if you put in your pin backwards, you will still get your money, but the police will also be automatically called, cool if its true.  they said it was on fox tv–
Me: well what if your code was the same thing forwards as it was backwards? like 5445 ?
Mom: then i guess your screwed, and ……..killed

It Is Bitching Cold Here!

it is bitching cold here. Well below zero F. And that is, shall we say, shit-ee.
Anyway, Schatz, just wanted to say Hi. Fell in the creek yesterday, on the coldest day, Just up to my knees, and, I figured, anyone that stupid has to keep on walking. Which I did. My pants froze immediately and they were clanking while I walked. the dogs were very interested in the sound. really weird.
Love ya lots
Mom

Learning About the Boy Cut

Mom: I’m at the gap and they are having a great sale on underwear. Do you need a couple of pairs?

Me: Yes. Always.

Mom: Boy Cut, Hipster, Thong, or Bikini? What does Boy Cut mean?

Me: Umm, it’s just a style. They’re more comfortable.

Mom: Or all FOUR!

Me: No, I don’t really like thongs.

Mom: Does boy cut mean that there is a bigger “pouch”?

Me: What are you talking about?

Mom: Do you like the color purple and are you “into” scarves?

Me: Why the air quotes?

Mom: OK. Great.

Gender Lessons

Me: Never send a man to do a woman’s job.
Mom: Yeah, but then we have to do everything.

Going Forward I Am Ignoring Everything

I am beginning to think that your brother is a drama queen.  He probably was lying to me about the whole thing that she heard what I said.  Going forward I am ignoring everything.  Highschoolers really are really a pain in the ass.  At least for you, once you achieved college you realized that the parents were not as stupid as you thought.  I don’t know if he will ever get to that point.  The little shit.

Love,
Mom

The Wrong Kind of Yoga

C & I did the hot yoga thing years ago and almost died.  They make it a point to have the temp be really hot in the room ours was called astanga yoga.  The guy came up to us after our class and asked if we had signed up for the right course.  Obviously we had not.  We also learned “mula bonda” it was to sit wide open with your legs crossed and as the instructor explained it “suction your butt hole”  to the floor so you could then do some downward poses as you stretched forward.  OH, and I remember on one pose legs spread apart and bending over looking through my legs I opened my eyes only to see C eyeball to eyeball and butt ho to ho an inch apart from me (she had turned the wrong way to do this pose) and I busted into laughter and the instructor asked me to step out for a moment to compose myself.   OBVIOUSLY after just one class, we asked for our money back and did not return.

What Would They Do With Their Hair?

Backstory: I went to some natural hot springs one time and saw a woman there with unnaturally large bangs.

I didn’t know polygamists went to hot pots! What would they wear and what do they do with their hair?

iPhone Envy

Backstory: For Christmas my mother bought me an iPhone. She’d made fun of me for craving it until I actually got it and showed her how incredibly useful it was. Now she wants one of her own. The other day I sent her an email from it, which automatically post-scripts “Sent from my iPhone.”

Fine.

Sent from my antique computer at home.

Quintessential Mom Advice

I think you should visit Europe in the Spring.  They have lousy weather in the winter.  I also think you should try to have a baby.  Love Mom

The Heartless Dentist

Backstory: We have decided it is time to take away our daughters’ pacifiers, largely due to the encouragement of their pediatric dentist.  Their grandmother is none too pleased.

Oh, sure, blame the dentist.

Like Sydney’s not going to need braces anyway.

Give me a break – have you met her parents?  Both orthodontic dream patients.

Does this dentist even have any children?

Facebook Hoes?

Me: There was something I forgot to tell you earlier and now I can’t remember at all…
Mom: about the party? money?  Facebook hoes ?

How to Know When You’ve Found “The One”

you should marry someone not because you think there isn’t anyone else out there, but because you love THAT person. like, if you had a cupcake, you would want to share it with him.

My Daughter, aka Little One Who Almost Caused Me to Die in Childbirth

Backstory: This conversation happened on my birthday.

me: get your rest! love you!

mom: I love you too. little one who almost caused me to die in childbirth….I would gladly have saccrificed myself for you except that it would have deprived your brother of his life ;)

me: i’ll keep that in mind. good night

mom: g’night. <3

Guess She Is Maturing

Dear Daughter,

Yesterday for the first time I observed Agatha pooping outside and covering it up.  I mention this because it has not been so clear to me that she knew to do this.  I have known her to beg to get inside to use the litter box.  Guess she is maturing.

We also have a pair of very stupid nesting robins hanging around the house.  They think their reflection in the windows and doors is another robin invading their territory, so they are constantly pecking at the glass — also pooping under the glass and dropping twigs and other nesting material.  I hope they tire of this soon.  I had heard of this happening, and now I know it’s true.

Maybe a stupid cat will catch a stupid robin?

OOXX Mom

Dove Talk

Mom: Hi honey! Just wanted to let you know I will be in Seattle tomorrow with the 3rd grade class!
Me: Coo.
Mom: Isn’t that what a dove says?

Hot New Trend: Mink Snuggies at Church

At 9:00, Fr. G decided that since it was a feast day, he’d go all out, had the candelabras lit and incensed the whole place, most significantly the crèche during Offertory. *Cough cough*. He used the nice incense that smells like nutmeg. Msgr. prefers this awful stuff that smells like a urinal cake. Too bad incense doesn’t provide heat because it was about 50 degrees on the altar. As much as possible during the choir mass, I kept my mink on in the loft, one woman suggested I wear it backwards like a Snuggie. She might just have invented the next trend!

I thought a Hummer was a big car

I was sitting at the airport tonight, waiting to pick up your Aunt, and I saw a car with a bumper sticker I didn’t understand. I wrote it down so I could ask you. It said, “if I wanted a Hummer, I would have married your sister.” What does that mean? I thought a Hummer was a big car. I asked your Aunt and she didn’t understand it either. Can you enlighten us?



Love, Mom