Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents
off the streets.
off the streets.
- Yogi Berra
There really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
~ Anne Lamott
~ Anne Lamott
“If you bite on everything they throw at you, they will grind you down. You have to ignore a certain amount of stuff. The thing I keep saying to them lately is: ‘I have to love you, and I have the right to ignore you.’ When my kids ask what I want for my birthday or Christmas or whatever, I use the same answer my father did: ‘Peace... and quiet.’ That was never a satisfactory answer to me as a kid — I wanted an answer like ‘A pipe.’ But now I see the wisdom of it: All I want is you at your best — you making this an easier home to live in, you thinking of others.”
“For many years I was a tough laugh, but lately I’ve been giving it up. I appreciate when they’re trying to be funny, you know? I think they feel like they have to be funny, that I’ve got some standard of humor that they have to come to. But funny is funny, and there’s no denying funny.”
“People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It’s over the day that child is born. It’s over, and something completely new starts.”
On how to deal with baby gas:
“When the kid first eats solid food, which usually happens around 6 months, sort of when you’re at the bottom of fatigue alley, they get gas and they don’t know what it is. They scream uncontrollably, it’s horrifying. Somehow I learned that peppermint breaks up gas, I went and got a candy and you just stick it in the kids mouth and you go back to sleep. You just pump their legs, and then you do their arms, and they laugh very hard, and then the kid passes out.”
-- Bill Murray with his son, Luke, who is an assistant basketball coach at Xavier University.
See More“People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It’s over the day that child is born. It’s over, and something completely new starts.”
On how to deal with baby gas:
“When the kid first eats solid food, which usually happens around 6 months, sort of when you’re at the bottom of fatigue alley, they get gas and they don’t know what it is. They scream uncontrollably, it’s horrifying. Somehow I learned that peppermint breaks up gas, I went and got a candy and you just stick it in the kids mouth and you go back to sleep. You just pump their legs, and then you do their arms, and they laugh very hard, and then the kid passes out.”
-- Bill Murray with his son, Luke, who is an assistant basketball coach at Xavier University.
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