Email about Moms, in honor of Friday's Michiana Super Mom drawing...

Answers given by elementary school age children to the following questions:

Why do we have 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.

What ingredients are mothers made of?
>>1. 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 do you have your mother and not some other Mom?
>>1. We're related.
>>2. The doctor 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 goofball.
>>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 and dads?
>>1. Moms work at work & work at home, & 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 itand not me.
>>3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on her back.

(with thanks to Vic at Tire Rack for forwarding it on to us)