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 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.)