Somebody

I had to pass this one on, posted by a friend of mine.

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 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 second child as much as you love the first . . .
Somebody doesn't have two children.

Somebody said a mother can find the answers to her childrearing 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 a 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 your mother's job is done when her last child leaves home . .
Somebody never had grandchildren.

Somebody said a mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her . . .
Somebody isn't a MOTHER.

PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL THE "MOTHERS" in your life and to everyone who ever had a mother. This isn't just about being a mother; it's about appreciating the people in your life while you have them .