Nostalgia -- I can't be alone in this (Callie)

Awwww I love that Lies..... it is those memories that I hope my grandchildren remember about me :)

sl2crmeg

My own PERSONAL favorite is "put on your big girl panties and deal with it". Whoever came up with that is a wise, wise girl.

Well -- the wise, wise girl who told it to ME used a bit more colorful language than "it" (added and sh to the front of it!) but I can tell everbuddy she **IS** a wise, wise girl (pirate's are pretty careful who they call "mom" you know!! )

Come to think of it, that's become a saying at our house as well (she IS a wise, wise girl but she also has a way with words that cracks my husband up)

But seriously -- I just love stuff like this.  It's part of what makes people live on in our hearts even after we've lost them. 

 When I was about to be married my mother's only advice was "start at the rate of going". I never understood what she was telling me until a few years in to the marriage. I had this special little thing I would do for my DH each morning  (no! not that!) I would run the iron over his underwear making it all nice and toasty for him. Well a few years of that was enough in my books and one day I just stopped. DH was so upset I couldn't believe it. Then I understood what my mother had told me - don't start out doing things for your husband you are not prepared to do forever. He only gets warm undies on his birthday now!

I love this post.

Like some others I cant share some off the “family sayings”.

I do wish we had a like button, I really liked some of the saying and memories

LOL Denise! My DH would divorce me if I made his undies toasty warm. Me on the other hand... just toss me in the dryer and I'm happy! (He's always hot, I'm always cold. )

My Nana used to say: "SOmeday you will look back on this as a grand adventure!"  She was usually right, too.

My dad was FULL of funny little sayings, nuggets of wisdom.... He was nearly always right too.

CHUFFY!!!!! **HUGS**

I have missed you!!

Denise -- your post about "start at the rate of going" made me smile -- she was right!! LOL.  My mother used to say "Marriage is a 90% 90% proposition.  Don't ever let ANYONE tell you it is 50/50 -- because we ALL feel like we give in about 90 percent of the time not half the time so just don't bother to count!!"

Denise - I don't know what I am more shocked with...the fact you ironed his undies or that fact that someone still irons LOL

Here's one my grandma used to say that I say to Riley now when she won't sit still at dinner "cheeks on the seat missy" sounds so much better than "sit down"

mrstjohnson

irons

Hmm Lisa ... isn't that a golf term??

mrstjohnson

I don't know what I am more shocked with...the fact you ironed his undies or that fact that someone still irons LOL

LOL, I've been saying I need to break out the iron on 2 or 3 shirts for the last 2 1/2 years.  I still haven't 100% accepted the fact that its not gonna happen...

 Gosh, I iron a dress shirt for DH every morning. 5 days/wk X 35yr = 1,900 shirts. Do you think I should get counselling?

 Nah, no counseling needed...I used to do that too, except I would do about 10 days worth at a time.  Never thought about the undies, but the dryer was available...   My Mom always used to iron the pillowcases...and handkerchieves!  Not this gal!  But I will admit to putting a crease in jeans a LONG time ago.

TheDogHouseBCMPD

My Dad always used to say "If it was a snake it would have bit ya"

4HAND

"You can wish in one hand and poop in the other...see what you get the most of."

LOL, Dad used something similar to this, "Put want in one had and in the other and see which one fills up first"  pretty much the same idea as yours, he was basically saying you don't always get what you want, and you're more likely to get what ya don't want. I'd forgotten about that one till you mentioned it.

TheDogHouseBCMPD

4HAND

"You can wish in one hand and poop in the other...see what you get the most of."

 

LOL, Dad used something similar to this, "Put want in one had and in the other and see which one fills up first"  pretty much the same idea as yours, he was basically saying you don't always get what you want, and you're more likely to get what ya don't want. I'd forgotten about that one till you mentioned it.

Same quote from my family too.  It was handed down by my great-grandmother !

"Ya gotta live 'til ya die" is another one..........