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thread: Signs that you're turning into your Mum/Dad

  1. #1

    Mar 2004
    Sparta
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    Signs that you're turning into your Mum/Dad

    I'm turning into my mother.
    DH and the boys are away and I've turned my back on the kitchen and the tidying and picked up my tools
    I've repaired a table (I think, test will be tomorrow when I turn it the right way up) and I've sanded back the top of another. Tomorrow I do the legs and drawers and then I'll stain it.

    So far my family have never returned to find me bashing out walls with a sledge hammer but the day will probably come lol.

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    Jan 2005
    cowtown
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    I referred to the 25yo "young guy" at work as "the youth of today"

  3. #3
    Moderator

    Oct 2004
    In my Zombie proof fortress.
    6,449

    I would much rather walk in the garden with my cats than with my kids. I am so becoming my mother.

  4. #4
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    Feb 2008
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    I said to my three year old daughter 'don't stick your chin out like that when you are speaking to me'. As soon as I finished saying it I realised Mum used to say that to me.

  5. #5
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    Jan 2010
    Shoe Heaven
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    I'm tutting at behaviour while shaking my head.

  6. #6

    May 2008
    Melbourne, Vic
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    I called my daughter "young lady"!

  7. #7
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    Feb 2010
    Geelong
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    I complain about my physical ailments like my mum, according to dh!! Help!! Hehe!


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  8. #8
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    Jan 2009
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    I referred to the 25yo "young guy" at work as "the youth of today"
    Hahaha, been there -- hated it the first time I did it - now I've just accepted that I am old and they are 'the youth of today'!

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    Jul 2010
    Canberra
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    Sayings:

    "Quiet back there in the peanut gallery!"
    "What do you think this is, Bush Week?"

    My DH is turning into his dad for the same reason. My favourite:

    "As flash as a rat with a gold tooth."

  10. #10
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    Apr 2008
    Home, where else??
    1,177

    I'm definitely turning into my mum.

    We say exactly the same thing at exactly the same time. It's creepy. It is so bad that my youngest actually called me Grammie a couple of times.

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    Nov 2009
    Scottish expat living in Geelong
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    I got home from work and started icing my hip and complaining about my aches and pains. Oh dear, my mother never stops complaining about her aches, she would be so proud

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    Jun 2007
    Brisbane
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    I know I'm turning into my mother when that little voice inside my head says "geeeeeez woman, you sound just like your mother!!" eeek!

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    BellyBelly Life Subscriber

    Jun 2008
    In snuggle land
    4,499

    I bought a label machine to label containers of food in the pantry and freezer. It helps with knowing the dates things were made and what particular type of stew is hidden deep in the freezer.

    I have yet to buy an iron-on labeller to label the cleaning cloths by function (bathroom, kitchen, mirrors etc) but I can see how it would be practical.

    I've started drinking apple cider vinegar in warm water in the morning (good for the skin & digestion. Helps with weight loss).

    I am now, somehow, growing roses. Which I actually associate with my mum's mum as well as my mum. I have no idea what I'm doing, but they're surviving ok so far.

    Onyx, I take it your Mum loved interior design

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    Nov 2010
    Perth, WA
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    My mother has had 3 children, each 9 years apart. I swore black and blue I wouldn't be having a baby in my DD's 9th year....

    Yep, guess what. DD is 9 years old and I'm due for bub in the next 4 weeks.

    The next one (if we should be so lucky) is so totally going to be a A LOT sooner

  15. #15
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    Oct 2004
    In my Zombie proof fortress.
    6,449

    I've started drinking apple cider vinegar in warm water in the morning (good for the skin & digestion. Helps with weight loss).
    Same here!

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    Sep 2007
    South Gippsland
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    Not a positive thing to say to my child but "If you don't stop crying I'll give you something to cry about" ........ I have caught myself a few times saying this when I am frustrated at her and very quickly smack the back of my head to knock some sense into myself.

    Man I hated it when she'd say that, it was often accompanied by a tanned backside with a wooden spoon.

  17. #17
    Registered User

    Jan 2005
    Down by the ocean
    6,110

    I called my daughter "young lady"!
    Me too

  18. #18
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    Nov 2008
    in the ning nang nong
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    So far, I've done the whole, "If I come in there and it's the first thing that I see..." and I've counted to three.

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