MOTHERS

~ Author Unknown

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 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.

Somebody said that time will heal your broken heart and you will get over it when your child dies… Somebody has been fortunate and blessed enough to never have had a child die...