Someone e-mailed me the following and I thought of you guys here - I thought I would post it now before it got lost in the black hole of my e-mailbox:
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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 if you're a "good" mother, your child
will "turn out
good"...somebody thinks a child comes with
directions and a guarantee.
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 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
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 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 your mother knows you love her, so you
don't need to tell her.
. .somebody isn't a mother.
