Fw: motherhood -this is a keeper

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Enjoy! Love, Judy motherhood> Somebody said a mother is an unskilled laborer . . . somebody never> >>gave a squirmy, soapy infant a bath.> >>> >>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 amother,> >>normal is history.> >>> >>Somebody said a mother's job consists of wiping noses and changing> >>diapers ... somebody doesn't know that a child is much more than the> shell> >>he lives in.> >>> >>Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct . . .somebody> >>never took a two-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 pediatricians 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 mold and a guarantee.> >>> >>Somebody said being a mother is what you do in your spare time . .> >>.somebody doesn't know that when you're a mother, you're a mother ALLthe> >>time.> >>> >>Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices . . . somebody> >>never came out the back door just in time to see her child painting the> >>child next door with left over house paint.> >>> >>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 Barbie> >>shoes up her nose and beans in her 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 drive away from the church with her new husband> >>behind the wheel.> >>> >>Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand> >>tied behind her back . . . somebody never organized twelve scuffling> >>Boy Scouts packing the van for their first overnight campout.> >>> >>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 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, you don't need to tell> >>her . . . somebody isn't a mother.> >>> >>Pass this along to all the mothers in your life!!!> >>>>