Somebody said...

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 her math.

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Somebody said you can't love the fifth child as much as you love the first.

Somebody doesn't have five 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 four 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.