Somebody Said...

I saw this somewhere. Just thought it was worth sharing.

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 permit.

Somebody said teachers 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” okay;
Somebody thinks a child comes with directions 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 hit a golf ball through the neighbor's 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 second child as much as you love the first;
Somebody doesn't have five children.

Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to 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.

- Author unknown