Categories: uncategorized
Date: 14 February 2006 19:42:46
... was a bit trite, but strangely re-assuring:
"Somebody Said......
> 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 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 ..."