My mother told me that the first word I ever uttered was the "s" word. She claims that my sister taught me how to say the word and how to appropriately use it in a sentence. My first sentence being "S***! I
cracka toe-a!"
My mother used to like to tell me about how when they were trying to potty train me, they let me watch my sister and brother use the potty, and that I insisted that I wanted to pee like my brother "Standing up!"
When my brother and I were teenagers and went to the humane society and picked up a lab-mix puppy, I called my mom at work and told her "We have a visitor, and he's going to stay." Her first words were, "If you brought a puppy home, you had better bring it back to wherever you got it, because you cannot keep it!" How did she know that we had gone and picked up a puppy behind her back?
When I asked my mom if we could just bring him by her work so that she could see him before she made up her mind, she said "
Ok." I knew we had her :). She ended up loving that dog - she even let him sleep in the bed with her when she watched him for 5 weeks while I was in Europe years later.
One time, when I was being a terrible teen, my mom asked me "Do you tell your friends how rotten I am?" I told her, "No, but I can start!" My friends actually loved my mom - they always told me how lucky I was to have such a cool mom. I couldn't let her know that at the time, though!
When I was living two hours away from my mom, going to college, my phone broke. When she tried calling, all she got was a busy signal. Concerned, she hopped in her car and drove to my place to make sure I was
ok. She knocked, I answered, she said "Thank goodness you are
ok! Do you know your phone is broken?" Then she hopped in her car and went home.
My mom said "I love you" to me a LOT. I think that is probably one of the most important things she said.
