If you sound like your mother, guess what?

After reading Ashley's blog post at her "Confessions of A First Time Mother" I had to laugh remembering the many times over the past 17 years when I would hear myself either uttering, thinking, espousing phrases of my own mom - those I had vowed never to repeat, EVER!

We all set out to be either different or better - after all, aren't we???

Turns out that some of our mom's "words of wisdom" which we locked away to safeguard our families from just seep blast out of our mouths.

At the most likely moments we're spewing:

"Am I talking to a brick wall?"

"How do you know you don't like it if you haven't tasted it?"

"Are you going out dressed like that?"

"I don't care what "everyone" is doing. I care what YOU are doing! If everyone jumped off a cliff would you do it, too?!"

"If you're too full to finish your dinner, you're too full for dessert."

"If you're too sick to go to school, you're too sick to play outside."

"You should have that phone surgically implanted in your ear."

"Over my dead body!"

Forgive yourself. No, forgive your mom AND forgive yourself. When you recognize your mom in your admonishing moments just understand that these insidious, genetically programmed utterances are centuries old and will live on and on.

I'd give anything to see my mom again, with a smirk on her face as she hears me passing on her "words of wisdom" to Jake, who will pass them on himself (except his kids may have phones actually implanted in their ears!).

Go ahead. Add some of your own most quotable mom quotes. And laugh.