MOMS

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.

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

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

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Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child will "turn out
good"...
somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee.

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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.

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Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother....
somebody never helped a fourth grader with his math.

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Somebody said you can't love the second child as much as you love
the first ...
somebody doesn't have two children.

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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.

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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.

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Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back...
somebody never organized seven giggling Brownies to sell cookies.

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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.

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Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home....
somebody never had grandchildren.

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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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