- 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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