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Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:

Why did God make mothers?

1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.

2. Mostly to clean the house.

3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?

1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.

2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.

3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger 

parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?

1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in

the world and one dab of mean.

2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use

string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?

1. We're related.

2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your mom?

1. My Mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.

2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty 

bossy.

3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?

1. His last name.

2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk

on beer?

3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to

chores?

Why did your mom marry your dad?

1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.

2. She got too old to do anything else with him.

3. My grandma says that Mom didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?

1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goof

ball.

2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.

3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between moms & dads?

1. Moms work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.

2.. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.

3. Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power 'cause

that's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.

4. Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mom do in her spare time?

1. Mothers don't do spare time.

2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?

1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of

plastic surgery.

2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?

1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid

of that.

2. I'd make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did

it and not me.

3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back

of her head.

very cute...so very true!

Somebody said it takes about 6 weeks to get back to normal after you've had a baby.

Somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, normal is history.

Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct

Somebody never took a 3-yr-old shopping.

Somebody said being a mother is boring.

Somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a learner's permit.

Somebody said good mothers never raise their voices.

Somebody never opened the back door just in time to see her child hit a baseball through the neighbor's bay window.

Somebody said you don't need a formal education to be a mother.

Somebody never had to help a 4th grader with his math homework.

Somebody said you can't love the 5th child as much as you love the first.

Somebody never had six children.

Somebody said mothers can find all the answers to child-rearing questions in the books.

Somebody never had a child stuff beans up their nose or in their ears.

Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and delivery.

Somebody never watched their child get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten. (...or on a plane for Recruit Training in my case)

Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back.

Somebody never tried to organize seven giggling Brownies to sell cookies.

Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married.

Somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings.

Somebody said a mother's job is done when the last child leaves home.

Somebody never had grandchildren. Or had one have to return.

Somebody said your mother knows you love her so you don't need to tell her.

Somebody isn't a mother.

These are great!

As a mommy I love these. I want to ask my 7 y/o boy all those questions to see what he thinks!

Because mom's are strong ,wonderful, caring and  fiercely protective with their kids

 He did not want to take ALL the credit!

 God could not be everywhere

 We moms are the angels standing over our children

Moms are God's extension of LOVE. She cares, she gives without asking in return, she loves us dearly and through that God's love are felt through our MOMS.

to be the His visible hands, voice, and lips to give kisses