Special Mom Phrases

Here is a list:

• "Your eyes are so blue you look like you drank the Windex"
• "Give that girl/boy a quarter"
• "I'll sell you to the gypsies!"
• "You look like nobody loves you!" (Solveig remembers this being said if she tried to leave the house with wild hair).
• we were also sometimes told "You look like the Wild Woman from Borneo!"
  
• (from tape with Solveig as toddler): "I wouldn't sell you for a million dollars."
• Solveig: laughs
• "Do you have a million dollars?"
• Solveig: laughing, "no"
• "I wouldn't take it!"
• Solveig: laughs more.

Kari:

I also remember how she used to smash up aspirin and put it in a spoon with maple syrup to make it more palatable, and also when I would get upset (I remember getting upset a lot) she would put maple syrup on a spoon and give it to me like it was medicine. Does anyone else remember this?