OT Beware the Awesome Power!

Cleopatra supposedly bathed in milk. a bit spit on his belly is just an experiment and much less costly than a bathful would be.

j.

"NightMist" wrote ...

So at supper tonight Ash to a notion to bare his belly, spit milk on it and rub it in. I caught him in the act. When I returned with the washcloth, I noticed DH holding his head and looking pained. When I asked if he needed an asprin, he commented "Mothers who have operatic training should come with warning labels." He claims that I was looking straight at him and caught Ash with the eye in the back of my head, so that he, DH, got the brunt of The Voice. He also claims that only women in Mommy Voice mode can turn a vowel into a plosive when that vowel is the first letter of a child's name.

Then again he is training the Tatarian Honeysuckle (lonicera tatarica) next to the front steps to be a guard bush.

NightMist

There's never a dull moment around your house, is there?! Or a less-than-lively dinner table!

G> So at supper tonight Ash to a notion to bare his belly, spit milk on it > and rub it in.

All mothers have operatic training. It's inserted during childbirth, along with that third eye and 'the Voice'. As for milk on the belly -- well, better than a dull meal when the folks around the table can't think what to say to each other and you can hear each other chewing your boiled pudding. (BEG)

Sunny

They sure do. One of the pearls of wisdom I gave my daughter was to be sure to give the baby a middle name that flows well with his first and last. Because you don't want to be stumbling over extra syllables when you're screaming at him to get out of the street.

Sherry

And we allll have done that!!!! LOL great story! amy in CNY

"The Voice"....goes along with "The Look" - which works better when company is present IMHO!

Allison

This evening I managed to glare and grin at my GMNT both at the same time. it was, I was informed, quite scary...

The talents we mothers have are endless!

I have used it on cranky co-workers ;) And kids in public when they are acting up, knowing full and well they shouldn't be. And, it does work with horses. I recall using "the Look" on my racehorses. They almost immediately would stop their playing around and seem to say "whaaat? Mom, I'm just being me!"

It must cross all boundaries of ages and species!

Ginger in CA

It must cross all boundaries of ages and species!

Ginger in CA

Oh, I dunno... My cats sit down when they are Told and Looked At! Mind you, they don't get fed until they do sit down! I've taught them all that since the day Marmalade (of furry memory) grabbed the dish and ended up with half a can of squishy cat food piled between his ears on the top of his head!

Sugar Puff and Cornflake have decided that as the dog that was visiting eats their noms if they leave any, Eating It All Up when it's given to them is a Really Good Idea!

I have found that if you use it on girl cats they give you their own patented Look and completely ignore you. Boy cats on the other hand, tend to levitate, spin, and look guilty. Much like daughters's (1) boyfriends.

I once froze a mouse. It was scampering across the living room floor bold as brass. Without even thinking about it I just pointed at it and said "Freeze right there!", and it did. What's more it just sat staring at me until DH captured it and carried it off. The cat was right there in the room, but she was staring at me like, "It's your mouse, I'm not going near it, nuh-uh!" Bet if I had known it's full name I could have set it to doing the dishes.

NightMist always assumed it was an escaped pet or something

(1) Ack! a possessive plural! What do I do with it?

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That's the best laugh I've had for awhile - I'll never see a mouse again without thinking about you freezing one!

Donna in SW Idaho

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The last time I saw a mouse I invented the cordless phone. Polly

"Donna in Idaho" > That's the best laugh I've had for awhile - I'll never see a mouse again

The farmer's wife backed her pickup truck to the loading dock at the dairy and asked the guy to fill it with jugs of milk so she could take a milk bath. "Pasteurized?" he asked. "No", she replied. "Up to my shoulders will be fine." Polly (I just couldn't help it.)

"NightMist" ( in part)

Groan...

Dee in Oz

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