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 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.