I don't know if you have friends like mine that email you with all kinds of "stuff," but I thought this one was good and appropriate for this site - enjoy!

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 or in his ears (with my five year old - it was a bead!).

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 headed for military "boot camp."

Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eye 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.