Things I Learned from Mom

Sunday was my Mom's Birthday, so my sister and I and our husbands took her out for a nice Brunch at Chez Zee. If you have never been there for brunch, you must go! Make sure someone at your table orders the Creme Brule French Toast and try it...it is to die for! Don't order it yourself....or else you'll have to do lots of extra cardio to burn those calories!!!
Chez Zee has lots of other wonderful brunch dishes...some amazingly good omelets and eggs benedict like you have never had anywhere else!

Back to Mom. I really hope she enjoyed her brunch and the rest of her birthday weekend. Since I was busy with ACL, I did not get to spend as much time with her this weekend as I would have liked. But I'll make it up to her....now that she only lives an hour & a half away it's much easier to do than when she lived in Lubbock (7 hours away)!!!

I could never express how much she means to me, so I decided to create a list of things I learned from her.

Things I Learned from Mom
- Patience
- Never completely rely on a man
- Get your College Degree
- To clean the house before the housekeeper comes over...at least pick up the clutter so they can spend time cleaning rather than picking up your trash and dirty dishes.
- To hover and/or cover toilet seats
- To use a paper towel on the door handle of a public restroom
- In your purse always have: tissue, aspirin, lip stick, powder, comb, pen, gum, cash
- Chocolate Pie for Holidays
- Chocolate Biscuits for special breakfasts
- Chicken noodle soup, crackers and Sprite when I'm sick
- Keep a towel or roll of paper towels in your car
- Kitty Litter in your trunk when it's icy out (or anything that adds weight to the back of the car)
- Thank You cards
- Always say "Please" "Thank You" and "Excuse Me"
- Be considerate of others even when they aren't of me
- Cook a nice breakfast on important days
- Birthdays are not complete without a Birthday Cake
- Birthdays are important - they are your special day and you don't have to share them with anyone else
- How to get away with extending your Birth-Day to a -Week or a -Month
- Make your kids believe that you are in control of the situation....not them
- Anti-bacterial wipes
- Celebrate the little victories as well as the big ones
- Green is a good color on me
- Clarks shoes are comfy
- Appreciate your sister - she'll be your best friend for the rest of your life
- Don't sweat the small stuff...it's just not worth it
- If I set my mind to do something, I can do it
- Sometimes you just gotta cry it out
- I can pick my friends but not my relatives
- I'll never understand the connection between a mother and daughter until I am a mother myself.

This list is just off the top of my head...so this will likely be an ongoing list that I will add to in the future....

I just hope I can be half as good of a Mom when I have my own kids someday.

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