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Subject: Mom's Dictionary
> MOMS DICTIONARY
>
> AMNESIA: Condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor
> to make love again.
>
> DUMBWAITER: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert.
>
> FAMILY PLANNING: The art of spacing your children the proper
> distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster.
>
> FEEDBACK: The inevitable result when your baby doesn't appreciate
> the strained carrots.
>
> FULL NAME: What you call your child when you're mad at him.
>
> GRANDPARENTS: The people who think your children are wonderful even
> though they're sure you're not raising them right.
>
> HEARSAY: What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.
>
> IMPREGNABLE: A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid.
>
> INDEPENDENT: How we want our children to be as long as they do
> everything we say.
>
> OW: The first word spoken by children with older siblings.
>
> PUDDLE: a small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing
> dry shoes into it.
>
> SHOW OFF: a child who is more talented than yours.
>
> STERILIZE: what you do to your first baby's pacifier by boiling it
> and to your last baby's pacifier by blowing on it.
>
> TOP BUNK: where you should never put a child wearing Superman
> pajamas.
>
> TWO MINUTE WARNING: when the baby's face turns red and she begins
> to make those familiar grunting noises.
>
> WHODUNIT: none of the kids that live in your house.
>