Somebody Said ...

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 a neighbor's kitchen window.

Somebody said, you don't need an education to be a mother....
Somebody never helped a fourth grader with her 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 and 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 to leave 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 four giggling Brownies to sell cookies.

Somebody said a mother can stop worrying when her child gets married.....
Somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heart strings.

Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home.....
Somebody never had grandchildren

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