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.

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

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