* Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal
after you've had a baby...
that somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother,
"normal", is history.
* Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct...
that somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.
* Somebody said being a mother is boring...
that somebody never rode in a car
driven by a teenager with a driver's permit.
* Somebody said if you're a "good" mother,
your child will "turn out good"...
that somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee.
* Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices...
that somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her child hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window.
* Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother...
that somebody never helped a fourth grader with his math.
* Somebody said you can't love the fifth child
as much as you love the first...
that somebody doesn't have five children.
* Somebody said a mother can find all the answers
to her child-rearing questions in the books...
that somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose or in his ears.
* Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother
is labor and delivery...
that somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten... or on a plane headed for military "boot camp"
* Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed
and one hand tied behind her back...
that somebody never organized seven giggling Brownies to sell cookies.
* Somebody said a mother can stop worrying
after her child gets married...
that somebody doesn't know that marriage adds
a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings.
* Somebody said a mother's job is done
when her last child leaves home...
that somebody never had grandchildren.
* Somebody said your mother knows you love her,
so you don't need to tell her...
that somebody isn't a mother.
* Love You.... Mom
* --Author Unknown
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