Mom knows best!

A couple of hours into a visit with my mother, she noticed I hadn't once lit up a cigarette.

"Are you trying to kick the habit?" she asked.

"No," I replied. "I have a cold, and I don't smoke when I'm not feeling well."

"You know," she observed, "you'd probably live longer if you were sick more often."

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After a hard rainstorm filled all the potholes in the streets and alleys, a young mother watched her two little boys playing in the puddles through her kitchen window.

The older of the two, a five-year-old lad, grabbed his sibling by the back of his head and shoved his face into one of the water holes. As the boy recovered and stood laughing and dripping, the mother was running toward them in a panic.

"Why on earth did you do that to your little brother?" she said, as she shook the older boy's shoulders in anger, combined with relief.

"We were just playing church mommy," he said. "And I was just baptizing him. You know,
'In the name of the Father, the Son and in the hole he goes.'"

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Mom was getting swamped with calls from strangers. The reason? A medical billing service had launched an 800 number that was identical to hers.

When she called to complain, they told her to get a new number. "I've had mine for twenty years," she pleaded. "Couldn't you change yours?"

They refused. So Mom said, "Fine. From now on I'm going to tell everyone who calls that their bill is paid in full."

The company got a new number the next day.


If laughter, love and compassion fill your home,
your children will always return.

Debbie