I Miss Erma Bombeck....

[ScreamingMeemie]

:cry: :cry: :cry:

Us mothers need another voice....sniffle

"Mother's words of wisdom: "Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!"

"I remember buying a set of black plastic dishes once, after I saw an ad on television where they actually put a blowtorch to them and they emerged unscathed. Exactly one week after I bought them, one of the kids brought a dinner plate to me with a large crack in it. When I asked what happened to it, he said it hit a tree. I don't want to talk about it."

"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you?"

"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."

"Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on."

"Mothers have to remember what food each child likes or dislikes, which one is allergic to penicillin and hamster fur, who gets carsick and who isn't kidding when he stands outside the bathroom door and tells you what's going to happen if he doesn't get in right away. It's tough. If they all have the same hair color they tend to run together."

"When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States."

She was the best at her craft.

[AlCzervik]

1. My Mom had a copy of

"The grass is always greener over the septic tank" it was like her bible.

[NC_Nurse]

2. I loved her books and columns...

I miss her too.:(

[blondeatlast]

3. I'll never forget her treatise on "Creeping Underwear."

She was also a genuinely nice woman.

[joeybee12]

4. Hee-hee. Those are great!

Is it the anniversary of her death? Wondering why you brought her up. I miss her too, a very funny and insightful lady!

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. No. I was just reading one of her books last night...and they still

make you smile..even when the front cover is missing. :hi:

[joeybee12]

15. My mother had a couple of her books, which my sister swiped!

I guess she figured that was part of her inheritance!

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. She was a beautiful counter to the Stepford wife Christian which now

rules the roost.

[Missy Vixen]

6. I miss her, too

She was the person my mom and I bonded over during the teenage years. In other words, she made both of us laugh. I can imagine she's laughing now with my mom and millions of others in the great beyond.

My poor husband decided to give me a copy of "Forever, Erma" (the compilation book that came out after she died,) one Christmas a few years ago. Of course, I burst into tears. He didn't know what he'd done wrong. :cry:

Erma, we miss you. Please send someone else who's almost as funny.

Julie

[Tom_Foolery]

7. I always enjoyed her conversations w/ Johnny Carson...

I think he got a big kick out of her.

[blondeatlast]

8. I had occasion to meet her a couple of times.

Very warm and always funny. She took the time to listen to people when they talked about how much they identified with her stories.

Just a nice, nice lady with her finger on the pulse of my mom's generation.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. But the really neat thing is that so much of what she has said and

written can cross over into our generation of motherhood. I just miss that part of the Sunday paper so much. :hi:

[blondeatlast]

14. So true. Her kids were my kid, AND me! nt

[Emops]

9. I visited her grave last Friday.

It's here in Dayton, not too far from where the Wright Brothers are buried.

[jswordy]

10. TWILIGHT ZONE EXPERIENCE: I was just thinking of her last week! n/t

[Pithlet]

11. I've always thought she was hilarious

mow that I'm a mother I can really relate to a lot she had to say. She could always find the humor in the kinds of situations that can leave us in a pile of tears at the end of the day.

She wrote a list shortly before she died of the things she would have done differently looking back on her life, when she knew she didn't have long. She had a rose shaped candle she never lit because she was always saving it for a special occasion. Eventually it melted in storage. If she had it all over to do again, she said she wouldn't have waited to light it.