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 no
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 her 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 four 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.
