Mother dear I love you so

Being mother's day, I was thinking this morning what I've learned from my mom over the years. I've compiled a list though it's quite incomplete...

1. Life is not fair
2. If you sprinkle while you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seaty
3. People are more important than things
4. There is not as much satisfaction in laziness as there is in a job completed
5. It's rude to sit in front of someone's house and honk for them. Just go inside and get them.
6. "It matters not if you try and fail and try and fail again. It matters much if you try and fail and fail to try again." (Quote by someone-not sure who-on our bulletin board forever.)
7. It's important to set goals and work to achieve them
8. I'm not in a competition with my siblings (Thank heavens! We have some dang smart and talented people in this family!)
9. It's important to support family members in their activities (go to each other's concerts, softball games, cross country meets, recitals, etc.)
10. Family is more important than friends (Friends come and go but family is forever) (If you can't play with your family, then you can't play with your friends)
11. Everything has a place and everything should be in its place (good goal though rarely is this completely carried out...)
12. Support others (church leaders, friends, family) by attending activities or projects they've planned.
13. Exercise, eat well balanced meals, be active
14. There are so many fun/interesting/necessary things to do in life that one should never be bored
15. Bring up the "honey-do list" after he's eaten and his stomach is full.
16. Often people end up hating their spouse for the same reason they they fell in love with them. Remember to keep loving the person you married. "You knew what (s)he was when you picked her/him up." (i.e. emotionally stable people aren't always the most empathetic to your emotional outbursts; fun and charismatic people may have a hard time buckling down and working hard; strong willed people and "go getters" may start to feel overbearing and pushy)
17. OH, and thanks mom, for the whole potty training thing. That's helped out NUMEROUS times over the years!