I shouldn’t have spoken slang so much, even though I knew the right words to say and claimed to be able to switch my vocabulary when the situation called for it.  I hear myself sometimes speaking in the familiar to people I should not speak that way with and I find that it is a hard habit to break.

She always told me I was pretty, but I didn’t believe it because she was my mother and she HAD to say that.  If I had believed it then, it would be easier to believe it now.

She told me I had the cutest shape but if I did not watch what I ate, one day it would catch up with me. I thought I’d have a flat stomach forever so even though I was active, I ate whatever I wanted.  Now I have a fat stomach and a food addiction.

My mama always said, “Stop over arching your eyebrows to be so thin!  You have beautiful thick eyebrows that I wish I had…”  but thin, was in. So I tweezed and waxed and plucked.  Now thick eyebrows are in and mine won’t grow back.

Sometimes, your mother really IS right…