SOMEONE said.....

This is not original with me, but I liked the sentiment, and so I added a few pictures of my own, and I dedicate this to all my e-friends who are having babies this month!


"Someone 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 "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 her 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.







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 eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back .......

Somebody never organized four 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.