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Somebody Said


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 driver's permit.

Somebody said teachers, psychologists 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" . . .
Somebody thinks a child is like a bag of plaster of Paris

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 wind up and
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 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.



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