Oh my GOODNESS. I am my mother.

This is a little thread for all the people who have just had the realization that we have, in fact, despite all efforts, turned into our mothers.

Today I needed to blow my nose.

Thankfully, I had a tissue in my sleeve. (Nope. Not kidding.)

Anyone else just realize they are now their mother?

charlington!!  :-D

Umm ... topic ... yea ...

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i have my mother's laugh. especially when drinking.

 

...this is not a good thing.

I am my mother too.
I write thank you notes to EVERYONE.
I have tissue in my purse and in my sleeve.
I iron pillow cases.

Yes, I am my mother.
But, really...is that so bad? LOL

When my mom and I dress up for formal occassions, we drive around, take off our panty hose, and throw them in open windows of parked, empty vehicles.

When we're in a grocery store in an abandoned aisle, we'll fart, wait a minute to see what it smells like, then run away and wait for innocent victims to stroll down and make weird faces.

We're not afraid to try on clothes over our clothes, even though it embarrasses whoever shops with us.

There's quite a few other things I've come to do that my mother does, but there's a few things I could never transition myself to do.  I refuse to walk barefoot all summer until my feet turn black, and spend an entire winter of wearing socks to get them back to normal colour.  I refuse to go months without shaving my legs or armpits. 

The other day, my son skinned his knee - I immediately reach into the side pocket in my purse to pull out the portable bactine and a band aid.  He then said he was hungry, and I pulled out a package of fruit snacks.

Apparently, without realizing it, my mother's magic purse powers transferred to mine.

And, like my mother, I now have a collection of hand lotions in every scent imaginable, and a collection of recipes "just waiting" for me to get around to making.  (Although they are a little more organized.)

AAAACK!!!! 

However, it's not necessarily a bad thing.  The more I experience with my kids, the more I look back with a deep admiration for my mother.  When my boys are being particularly difficult, I want to call her and make a retroactive apology for all my crap.

Sooo... maybe if I never have kids I won't be like her?  Please, god??

Never heard of the tissue/sleeve thing.  Wouldn't it just fall out?

I iron pillow cases.

You actually iron pillowcases? *shakes head in complete disbelief, checks calendar, yes it really is the year 2008*

You actually IRON pillowcases? *can't believe anyone still does that*

You actually IRON pillowcases? *wanders off befuddled and amazed*

my husband told me that I worry like my mother and that I don't embrace change as much as I used to; that now I am more like her.  I at first was taken aback; but; like most of his comments; he does have a point.

It wouldn't be so bad to be like my mom.  Of course there are things I will never do or say like her; but I hope to be just a good as mom as she was; keeping my children protected from the world as best I can.  I'll make different mistakes; and my daughter will grow up saying; "I will never become like my mother" but in reality a little part of her will.

It's not so bad to be like your own mother.   At least I know she always cared about me!!

I can't readily think of any way in which I am like my mother (perhaps if I give it more thought) but, I can say that I really, really miss her.

My mom does the sleeve kleenex thing and I haven't picked that one up yet but I do have a million other things!  We laugh the same, at the same time and it's so creepy we both stop at the exact same moment and look at each other weird.

We rock ourselves when sitting, just slightly, but when sitting together we'll get in unison and rock at the same pace, my dad says it creeps him out. 

I write lists, tons and tons of lists!  I write my grocery store list using the same abbreviations and in the order of the isles just like my mom. 

We actually have one of those cute pillows that says "Mirror mirror, on the wall, I've become my mother after all" that my mom got and will pass on to me and I'll pass on to my future daughter probably!

I, unfortunately, am not my mother.

I, am my somewhat goofy father.  :)

I look like my mother when I wear make-up... and sometimes when I'm frustrated I hear her voice come out of my mouth (I roared at my husband the other day - it sounded just like my mom roaring at me when she got all emotional).

But... I prefer to think of all the ways I'm not like my mother.  For many people it's not so bad, but she's not the woman I want to be, nor is she the kind of mother I admire :/

The tissue in the sleeve oh yes I remember my grandmothers doing that and my mom and now me. I leave the cabinets open and it drives hubby batty and years ago while visiting my parents he was going around the kitchen closing cupboards for days and realized where I got that from.

I find my self saying " I see it in my mind" when I am looking for something like the scissors or other thing you don't use every day. My mom always said that.

And my youngest daughter is my and my hubby's mothers and all your moms curse "I hope when you grow up you have a child just like you!!!"

 

Oh and ironing pillowcases -- I remember my neighbor ironing her sheets and pillowcases.  I always thought it crazy too but lately when waking up with the wrinkles of the pillowcase on my face I'm thinking maybe its not such a stupid idea after all.

I am totally my mother in so many ways. I now commute to work with her, and that's made me realize just how much I am like her, and this is especially funny since we spent the last 4 years living across the country from each other!

I am my mother and my daughter is already me :-)

Original Post by glinda:

I, unfortunately, am not my mother.

I, am my somewhat goofy father.  :)

I'm my somewhat goofy dad too... So much so that he refers to me as his "mini-me", lol! 

Aahhhhhh!!! Dear Lord no!!  I haven't yet. . . . but have been seeing signs that it is possible.  I shall curse the day it happens.  There is no way I could ever become as Nutz as my Mom!

Original Post by ringnebula:

I write lists, tons and tons of lists!  I write my grocery store list using the same abbreviations and in the order of the isles just like my mom. 

 My mom and I do this too! It's so bad my roomate actually teases me about it, occasionally she leaves me a note on one of my multitude of list pads...something like ' are you making another list :)'

I also have a big pile of recipes to try like my mother, you know the ones in the basket that you'll experiment on some good friends w/.

And I have been told I'm oblivious like my mother, like when we're driving we're oblivious to other people that we know waving to us, we see the car they may be in, but don't recognize it as belonging to someone we know or that they're inside it waving madly to get our attention. My step-father thinks this hilarious and often teases us about it.

Edit: I don't mind being like my mother though I have great respect for her and if I've picked a few of her quirks I'm ok w/that :)

I'm my mom and my grandma...it's a shocker when you say something and hear your mom's voice and then realize it's your mom parroting your grandma that just came out of YOUR mouth.

BTW: Thanks mom for the curse, "Up your nose with a furlined eggbeater"  it always brings a conversation to a halt while people try to picture it or parse it out to be meaningful.

My mom was old enough to be my grandmother and treated me like that, complaining but letting me get away with murder.  She cleaned up constantly behind me and my daughter has the misfortune of me not letting her take advantage of me as I did my mom.  On the other hand, I never used spit with a tissue to clean something off her face due to the grossed out memories of it.