18-year-old YW on Mother’s Day: Well… I’m kind of not so excited to be in Relief Society. It’s not that I don’t like you as people. Each of them are really cool and they are great individuals but all together as a whole, well, you’re scary. Really.
Overheard by: Gizmo
A mother whose children were being especially noisy during sacrament meeting: Hope nobody sitting around us came today hoping to actually be able to hear anything!
Overheard by: Derek
4-year-old: Mommy, what does ‘fat’ mean?
Mother: It means ‘big.’
4-year-old: Mommy, you are very, very fat!
Mother: Honey, many people don’t like it when you call them fat. It means they are…uh…bigger than they’d like to be.
4-year-old: Mommy you are bigger than me!
Overheard by: HollyWillNot
Deacon giving Mother’s Day talk in Sacrament talk: I searched the Internet to find the origins of Mother’s day. I found 4 different versions. I didn’t know which one was true, so I just picked the one I like the best.
Overheard by: HIStory
Girl speaking about her mother on Mother’s Day: She’s not afraid to be the bad guy and tie Annie to her high chair to stop her from biting everybody.
Overheard by: Kaitlin
Front page of a sacrament meeting program: “Motherhood–A Scared and Holy Calling” -Boyd K. Packer
Overheard by: Still Chuckling
YW about mother’s day program: So I think we should sing this song with the primary and the young men, because it makes my mom cry, and my aunts cry, and a lot of the other moms cry…
YW chorister: So the lesson here is, if it makes mothers cry, we should do it more often.
Overheard by: Poke In The Eye
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