Thursday, August 23, 2007

Women's Wisdom and Truisms

Let's pretend that I'm starting a forward. You know, one of those AWFUL forwards with photos of Maxine in it that we can all pass around?

These are thoughts just for the girls.

  • Why doesn't head hair grow as fast as armpit hair?
  • Or leg hair?
  • When one is pregnant, the whole world suddenly seems pregnant.
  • Never fails: Buy a new purse; spill M&M's in the bottom of the new purse before the end of the week.
  • "Drama Queen" is contagious.
  • Doesn't matter when you "went" last. You lay down on the OBGYN's table and instantly have to pee.
  • Put any number of women alone in a room together and you can count on hearing gruesome horror stories about labor and delivery. Especially if one of those women is pregnant!
  • A good friend is hard to come by, but a mother and sister are irreplaceable.

Forward this to 10,000 of your best friends before noon today and you will be very lucky.



Let's hear some of your words of Womanly Wisdom.

7 comments:

Carla said...

When you have the money to shop for clothes, nothing fits.

Downy Wrinkle Release is freedom in a bottle.

The selections for the feminine products aisle boggle the mind.

When taking more than one child to the park, they will all run in different directions.

Being over 40 is awesome!! I mean it!

kristi noser said...

I use Downy wrinkle release, and leave out the Downy. Works for me.

I think it's funny that Eli calls feminine products "mom diapers".
(Ok, I stole those two from Carla)

Strive to do better at parenting than your parents did.

Do all the dishes before you go to bed.

Anonymous said...

What evidence do you have that armpit hair and leg hair grow faster? Is there research on this.

Wisdom
The freshly mopped floor isn't clean this someone spills on it.

Do what God gives into your power to do and leave the rest to him. No he won't show up to do the dishes.

Beautiful is painful, beauty is painful. (This takes on different meaning at every stage of a womans life. Starts with getting your face and hands washed in the high chair, to tangles to brush out before your pony tail, to acne, stretch marks, to plucking chin hair.)

Marry a man who makes you laugh.

Crock pot liners. Try them.

Bleach is still a beautiful product in the right hands.

More later...

Anonymous said...

The first day of your period will come the day you plan to go to the fair...I don't care which fair or which month.

When you need something, you can't find it. When you finally find it, you won't need it.

The more pets your kids have, the more pets YOU'LL end up taking care of.

Carpeting is the bane of human existence...especially in humid weather.

If you're in a hurry, the kids won't be.

Kristin said...

Try not to have more children than adults in the family to carry them. (that one's from my Dad's life truisms)

"Does that sound stupid to you?" is a valid response to many, many situations.

You can't want something for someone that they don't want for themselves.

Offer the invitation. Don't assume a negative response for the other person.

Birth and death (physically and spriritually) are the most profound moments in life.

Never, under any circumstances, put lotion on your feet while on the way to work in sandals.

There is no perfect church. Get over it. Pick one and get involved. It will become for you a really good church. That's as close as we can get this side of Heaven.

Getting your nails done and tanning do as much or more for your insides as they do for your outsides.

Refer to the 5 criteria for selecting a life partner.

Kristin said...

Erin, are we collecting more book material? When is that research trip planned???

Kristin said...

Never marry a man who spends more time getting ready to go some where than you do. Or owns more hair products, or gets his nails done, or carries a man purse. (He may be trying hard to ignore it, but he has to be gay.)

This one courtesy of Kathleen.