Phrases we grew up with were:
- A penny in the hand is worth two in a bush.
- Don't count the chickens until the eggs hatch.
- It's raining cats and dogs.
- A dime a dozen.
- One of my mom's favorites "a taste of your own medicine."
- How many times as a kid did you cry when you spilled milk and they said "don't cry over spilled milk." The only time I ever heard that though was when my sister or I spilled milk.
- As for my mom's cooking, she used "everything but the kitchen sink" and she was a fantastic cook who could make something out of nothing.
- And how many mornings did I hear, did you get up on the wrong side of the bed again. (My bed was against the wall.)
- Hell in a handbasket is where the world has been going for years and sometimes that is where I was headed when I didn't listen to my parents.
- Mum's the word when my aunt went off the road back in the 60s while driving my mom, my sister and I. We weren't supposed to tell anyone but I couldn't keep it a secret from my dad. Maybe my mom said "I smell a rat."
- "Would you kids please pipe down, I can't hear myself thinking" was frequently used in our home. Usually that was at bedtime when we were supposed to be quiet.
- Consoling me, my mom would say, it's water under the bridge...let bygones be bygones.
- Mom wouldn't eat corn because pigs eat corn and you are what you eat.
Today's earrings