SOMEBODY SAID….

  • Somebody said that a child is carried in its mother’s womb for nine months.
    Somebody does not know that a child is carried in its mother’s heart forever.
  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.
  • 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 your mother knows you love her, so you don’t need to tell her.
    Somebody isn’t a mother.

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    Published:
    03.02.17 3:19
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    Thoughts to Ponder, Words of Wisdom