Somebody said it takes about six weeks 
to get back to normal 
after you've had a baby
Somebody doesn't know 
that once you're a mother,
"Normal," is history.



Somebody said you learn 
how to be a mother by instinct.
Somebody never took 
a three-year-old shopping.



Somebody said being a mother 
is boring.
Somebody never rode in a car 
driven by a teenager with 
a driver's permit.



Somebody said "good" mothers 
never raise their voices.
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.
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.
Somebody doesn't have five children.



Somebody said a mother can find 
all the answers 
to her child-rearing questions in the books.
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.
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.
Somebody never organized 
four giggling Brownies to sell cookies.



Somebody said a mother can stop 
worrying after her child gets married.
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.
Somebody never had grandchildren.



Somebody said your mother 
knows you love her, 
so you don't need to tell her.
Somebody isn't a mother.

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