Thanks Mom

One of the best things my mom ever did for me was to write down all of the quirky things I said as a kid. Most of the quotes can be found in a journal with a fabric teddy bear cover, or in a Cabbage Patch Kids calendar (1986). Here are a few of the gems:


Let's start with some quotes surrounding my obbsession with death.


"I'm going to tell myself a bedtime story. There were 2 foxes. No, mice, who lived in a hole but they had no cheese. Their cousins came and had a bag and said I had a surprise for you. It was full of cheese. But a bull-frog. No, a bull-cat jumped out of the bushes and ate all the cheese and he squished the mice and cut their heads and necks and ate them. And they live happily ever after."


"My dog died. He's lying there with his eyes open but he's not moving. He had drugs-he didn't say no, he said yes." Well, done Mrs. Reagan. I was very afraid of accidentally saying yes to drugs!


I woke my mom up crying one night. "I'm going to die because I can't tell time. I want to LIVE!"


"Will Santa die? The dinosaurs died!"


Now, let's hear about how panicked I was at the impending birth of my baby sister Brittany.


"We can only have 5 kids."
"Robyn will be the baby! She'll pop back in."
"Are you having the baby today?" (No) "Good I get to see Emily another day"
"There's a mom in there to take care of the baby."
"I'll get tiny again and pop back in, and you'll never see me again, and you won't even care because you'll already have 2 babies. You'll have all the kids you need."
"The baby died."
"We don't need another baby."
"I thought we had the baby, but it was just my bad dream."
"You could get another lap, but then I won't fit across."
"It it's not a boy or a girl, it will be dead."


But then, once Brittany was born I liked her. One night I woke my mom up crying, saying "I want that baby to be mine, but she's your's."


When trying to sing the M-I-C-K-E-Y song:
"Bumble bee here your are, M-O-U-S-E."


"It's called Mt. Rainier because you can buy souvenirs there!"


I hope y'all've enjoyed these. Perhaps I'll share more later!