[JeanieK]

Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:
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>Why did God make 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.
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>How did God make mothers?
>1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
>2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
>3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger
>parts.
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>What ingredients are mothers made of ?
>1. God makes mothers out of 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.
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>Why did God give you Your mother & not some other mom?
>1. We're related.
>2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me.
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>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.
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>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?
>4. Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?
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>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.
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>Who's the boss at your house?
>1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a
>goof ball.
>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.
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>What's the difference between Moms & dads?
>1 . Moms work at work and 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 want to sleep over at your friend's.
>4. Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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 it and not me.
>3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back
>of her head.