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Stressed!

Who owns all these friggin' kids?

By Cathy holmesPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Photo by Zachary Kadolph on Unsplash

A mom's addled brain

Cathy, Jerry, Bobby. You!

The heck is your name?

humorperformance poetry

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Cathy holmes

Canadian family girl with a recently discovered love for writing. Other loves include animals and sports.

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  • Dana Crandellabout a year ago

    Hahaha! This brings back memories! Well done!

  • Forspiya2 years ago

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  • 😂😂😂

  • ThatWriterWoman2 years ago

    The amount of times my mother has called me so many different names! Haha! Love this!

  • Mackenzie Davis2 years ago

    So relatable! I am giggling writing this. My mom would go through all the names, and I lived with four of my cousins for a time. Then we got a dog. All the names ending in "ie" or "y." Seven total. So many jokes, so many laughing fits. A worthy entry!

  • Paul Stewart2 years ago

    hahhaha....so true! Well done, Cathy! Another great piece!

  • RP2 years ago

    So relatable and funny 😆

  • Running through them all until you get the right one. Imagine if there were identical twins!

  • Hahaha, I call all of my nieces and nephews(Darling)😆lol…

  • Rob Angeli2 years ago

    Hehe, my dad still sometimes calls me RobErickSarah.

  • Grz Colm2 years ago

    😅🤣 good one! Quite common I imagine.

  • So true!😊

  • Joe Patterson2 years ago

    Prayers for mom life.

  • My grandma (Dad’s mom) has 5 children who gave her 9 grandchildren in total. Out of those 9, 7 of our names starts with a D. So yea, we always get our names mixed up 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • So beautifully written!

  • Babs Iverson2 years ago

    Well done, my friend!!!

  • Tiffany Gordon2 years ago

    Great work Cathy!!!

  • Lena Beana2 years ago

    Lol love it. My mom just called us number one and number two. Or sometimes thing one and two 🤣😂 and of course there were the many times where she said all the dog names and cat names and our names and then gave up and would scream, “oh whoever you are!” And my gramma gave up trying to remember her three girls names and just called them all “Donfonsu” (Danielle, Fontaine, Susanne) 😂

  • Kristen Balyeat2 years ago

    Haha! Throw the dog’s name in there too! 😂

  • Donna Renee2 years ago

    Love it hahaha 🤣🤣My mom did that but included the names of all of our pets too

  • Lamar Wiggins2 years ago

    😅. My grandma would call us the wrong names all the time. She would actually start spitting out names until she got it right...This was a fun take and so true. Also, I Loved the subtitle, lol.

  • This sounds a lot like my mom says to us kids 😂

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