Good Sunday Morning!
Somebody Said
>
> by Renee Hawkley
>
> (from her book, "Don't Come In Here! Mom's Throwing
> Spaghetti!" Excerpts of this article were reprinted
> in the Reader's Digest.)
>
> Somebody said a mother is an unskilled laborer . . .
> somebody never gave a squirmy infant a bath.
>
> 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 a mother's job consists of wiping
> noses and changing diapers . . . somebody doesn't
> know that a child is much more than the shell he
> lives in.
>
> 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 teachers, psychologists and
> pediatricians know more about children than their
> mothers . . . somebody hasn't invested her heart in
> another human being.
>
> Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child
> will "turn out" . . . somebody thinks a child is
> like a bag of plaster of Paris that comes with
> directions, a mold and a guarantee.
>
> Somebody said being a mother is what you do in your
> spare time . . . somebody doesn't know that when
> you're a mother, you're a mother ALL the time.
>
> Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their
> voices . . somebody never came out the back door
> just in time to see her child wind up and 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 his 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 being a mother is a side dish on the
> plate of life ... somebody doesn't know what fills
> you up.
>
> Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you
> don't need to tell her . . . somebody isn't a
> mother
