I caught myself three times yesterday being my mother it was terrifying really if you knew my mother. The three times it was something she always said that I SWORE I would never say
1- watch your tone - Really
2- you dont get a vote - hated that one
3-I am your mother not your maid- oldie but goodie
All three times my boys just gave me this look like they had seen a ghost. So for Friday afternoon entertainment what have you caught yourself doing or saying that in your head you think " god I have just become my mother"
I actually said "because I said so" just yesterday! LOL
We ALL get there eventually--and now we understand!
LOL!!
I have never really "said" anything like her. It is when I looked in the mirror and realized I LOOK like her. Which is ok, she is in my opinion a pretty woman. It just really made me do a double take! And freaked me out a little!!
I still remember the day (long before kids) when I took off my shoes and found my mother's feet at the ends of my legs. Still not sure how that happened!
HAHA!! That's so funny, I was just thinking the SAME THING recently! I was like 'OMG NOOOO, I'M MY MOTHER!!' LOL... We're from up north, and when I'm speaking normally, there's only a mere hint of a northern accent. But, like my mother, when I get mad/loud about something, THERE IT IS!! That nothern accent comes flying out of me like a tracker trailer on the turnpike at 4am. When my mom and I argue about stuff, stand back! Northern accent all over the place!!
Even worse, I said something my DAD used to say all the time. Whenever we messed up when we were little, dad used to remind us 'to think of the rammifications of your actions'... I swear that word was stuck on repeat in his head, we heard it a billion times a day. My 7 year odl forgot her lunchbox at school the other day and was whining that she had to brown bag it, and I said 'well next time maybe you'll think of the ramm...' I stopped myself and my fiance busted out laughing because he KNEW where I was going, and who I had gotten it from. D'OH!!
When did I realize I had turned into her? When she told me! She's a "put your big-girl panties on and just do it" kind of a person and after a particularly hard day at work she told me that she would have handled the situation in the exact same manner. Yikes.
I also find myself telling my son things like:
"Brush it off, you're fine!"
"Did you actually look for it?"
"Say that again using kind words"
"This is not a diner- you need to eat what I made"
I look a lot like her too, but didn't realize it b/c our coloring is very different. My mother is a great mom, so it doesn't bother me to be compared to her at all!
In the morning when people are grouchy sometimes I say cheerfully, 'well you don't have to shine, but you DO have to rise!' Man I HATED when she said that! I also sometimes hum, Rise and Shine and Give God your Glory, Glory...blah blah, what-EVA!
TEHEHE,
Mirror mirror on the wall, I AM my mother after all!
Furthermore, my own daughter has said, psh, do I have to be EXACTLY like my mother in EVERY way!
Humph!
Great question!
:)
**Oops, I somehow forgot to mention, I have The World's Greatest Mother, no exaggeration. :)
I didn't turn into my mother - I turned into my grandmother. But that's a good thing - my grandmother was a pistol!
When I suddenly looked forward to going to Wal-Mart.
I realized it when I told my hubby something and he said...'ok Vicki'. That would be my mom's name, not mine! I do it just to be funny now... I love my mother to death, she's my best friend...but she's the mom who states the obvious! Like when I tell her my daughter is outside playing...'oh, you bundled her up right. It's snowing!' Like I don't know to do that!
We have fun with it now!
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Ha ha, this morning my brother told me that I sound like my mom!
My mom is recovering in a rahabilitation center for her knee and so I am kind of helping out with my little brother and he came home like around 6:30 this morning. I chewed his butt out for coming home at this time. And when he told me I sounded like my mom and it just caught me off guard, I had to take a step back and think about it.
Ha ha
Plenty more of those moments to come I am sure!☺
Now I see my mother in the mirror about 50% of the time, but I realized that I became my mother when my kids were complaining about something in the food and I said "Just ignore it." I mean, how can a person "ignore" a mushroom staring them right in the face!?
Lol, I haven't but my mom wasn't involved at all with me, so me being involved makes me not her. I do say things my dad used to say (the cliche things that didn't hurt my feelings) sometimes which I swore I would never do lol. Your number 2 sounds like a good line that I'll probably use in the future at some point. Most of the time, especially when she makes me frustrated, I make a conscious effort not to say things that my dad used to say because I remember that they used to really hurt my feelings and belittled me.
My mom was wonderful, and I continue to hope that I can be more and more like her.
And yes, I've said "because I said so!!" many times. And my daughter and I usually end up laughing about it. And sometimes I see a little of her in the mirror.
Ugh....I hate this question because it makes me cringe. I scream, like my Mother. I hate it. I have been a real "work in progress" trying to change this. I also have her "neat freak" gene. Everything needs to be clean and tidy at all times or else I'm miserable. (also something I'm working on.)
Other than that, I am not like her at all. She was not a very good mother, far from it actually. She had 3 kids and I swear she doesn't have one motherly quality about her. I live for my kids. They are my first priority, at all times. Something she didn't do for us.
I became my mother LONG before I had kids of my own ... I was a manager where most of my employees were teens and it was their first job; sadly the parents did not prepare them for a job. I used phrases like "How many times do I have to tell you? They would say 100 and I would make them stand there while I said it 100 times and told them you will be written up the next time I have to say it" ... it worked! Who's mess is this? I am your manager not your maid ... Did you bring your homework to do on break? How are your grades (worked on scheduling for those who's grades were slipping)... I swear many of the kids said I was harder on them and expected more from them than their own parents ... So, yeah I was my mother at 22 before I had my son!
This question just made me laugh! It happened so long ago for me, I don't even remember the straw that broke the camel's back! I do remember I was in college and something happened...anyway, I stopped dead in my tracks, called mom and said, your words just came out of my mouth and I'm not happy about it! Since I've had kids I have those moments more than I'm comfortable having!!! ;)
My mom and I are quite different, but a lot of times I will say things exactly like she does. She is very light-hearted and uses a lot of made-up words. I find that sometimes I do that when I am teasing my kids. It is weird!
Funny story regarding her made-up words: when I was a teenager, she yelled out the door to my little brother, "come back here, you little dil-do!" She was just making up a funny nonsense word, or so she thought! I was so embarrassed, there were a ton of neighbors around when she said it!
