SOMEBODY SAID…..

For all Mothers.

Somebody said a mother is an unskilled labourer…
Somebody never gave a squirming infant a bath.

Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after having 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 daipers…
Somebody doesn't know that a child is much more than the shell in which he/she lives.

Somebody said you learn 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 paediatricians 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 that comes with directions, a mould and a guarantee.

Somebody said being a mother is what you do in your spare time…
Somebody doesn't know when you're a mother, you're a mother ALL the time.

Somebody said "good mothers" never raise their voices…
Somebody never just came out of the back door just in time to see her child wind up and hit a golf ball through a neighbour's 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 child rearing questions in books…
Somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose.

Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labour 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 eyes close and her hands tied behind her back…
Somebody never organised seven giggling Brownies to sell cookies.

Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married…
Somebody doesn't know that mariage 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.