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I sometimes chuckle when you say that Mary was a spotless vessel that carried God Incarnate, and if you had a glass that God had drank out of, would you use it for a common drinking glass? (My analogy)

Bad analogy, if you could find the Holy Grail would you use it for Kool-Aid? It's also not quite what SD meant, a more accurate analogy would be "if you had the Ark would you use it as a box for YOUR stuff?"

Mary nursed Jesus, changed his dirty diapers, and washed his bottom, smacked his butt when he was bad, yelled at him, wiped his dirty face, got mad when he wouldn't eat his food and probably forgot half the time that he was the Son of God.

I don't think He was ever bad, I could be wrong. Perhaps you can give us a Biblical reference?

She probably wondered sometimes if it wasn't all a dream, because he was so typically human, he was just like all other boys his age, and after he was born and they settled into a routine, she didn't sit all day long and say to her self, this is the Savior, this is the Savior, she started leading a normal life as any woman of that time.

She gave birth while she was a virgin. I don't think that is the kinda thing you just chalk up to a dream!

A kid is a kid, and you can only be fully aware of his calling so many hours a day. Could Jesus have had a normal childhood if his mother hung on him all day long?

Do you think Jesus had a normal childhood?

I think most catholics forget the human side of life, and she was just as human as you were, I think when he was 12 years old, he told them in more or less words, get a life Mom and Dad, I have my Fathers work to do.

First, I don't think they minded. Second, I really don't think Jesus would say that to His parents. After all, wouldn't that be braking His own rules?

I don't think He was ever bad, I could be wrong. Perhaps you can give us a Biblical reference?

I think most catholics forget the human side of life, and she was just as human as you were, I think when he was 12 years old, he told them in more or less words, get a life Mom and Dad, I have my Fathers work to do.

First, I don't think they minded. Second, I really don't think Jesus would say that to His parents. After all, wouldn't that be braking His own rules?
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Luke 2:

41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.
42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom;
43 and when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,
44 but supposing him to be in the company they went a day's journey, and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances;
45 and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him.
46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions;
47 and all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
48 And when they saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously."

49 And he said to them, "How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"
50 And they did not understand the saying which he spoke to them.
51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man.
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Close enough?

A question for you: Why do you suppose Mary "did not understand the saying which he spoke to them"?