What do you call your significant other once you are no spring chicken? Will boyfriend do? Is “significant other” overused? Forgottenman has some thoughts on the matter and asks you to share yours. Go HERE to join the discussion!!!
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lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
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Since I don’t have an “other” about, my family calls me the old lady, Grammies, or mahhhhm!
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Maaahhhmmm was what we used to cry out from outside the door when we wanted something. Once my mom kept hearing it but went to every door and couldn’t find anyone. Finally she discovered it was their pet Magpie who was imitating my older sister Betty!
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I used to have a yellow nape Amazon parrot and he mimicked everything. I would sit in another room and hear him practicing. My husband got him to whistle the Barber of Seville.
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Did you record it? That would be fun to hear.
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I did write a long list of words and phrases he said, but no recording. He was like a temperamental three year old.
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We had a parakeet that had quite a vocabulary as well.
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My mom had a couple that she conversed with.
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My mom was the one who taught ours to talk as well. We lived across the street from the grade school and right after we went to school, she would sit and talk to it for half an hour. It got so whenever Chipper heard the school bell, it would set him off.
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Mom had them over the kitchen sink so talked to them while doing dishes, etc.
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With a very strong English up-bringing, we always called people by their formal name — the name for mother was Mummy, and Ma, Mom, etc were absolutely not use. It was also difficult to change from the formal name to a less formal one as we became adults. The question then became what does one call Mummy. My response was always to call her “my mother,” which became a bit awkward when talking with my sister., but I always feel a bit small calling her Mummy!
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What did you call her to her face when you got older? Mummy or Mother? I called my mother Mother but when talking about her to others, I called her my mom. When we were little we called her Mommy. Don’t know at what age that stopped.. probably about six or seven. My dad was always Daddy but when he wrote me a letter, he signed it PaPa–something I never called him.
Strange.
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Never Mother. I think I evolved to something like “Mum,” an adaptation of Mummy. addy was always Daddy, and still is.
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