Happy Mother's Day to all.

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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 that you learn how to be a mother by instinct...
---- Somebody never took a three-year-ld 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 '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 that you don't need an education to be a Mother...
---- Somebody never helped a fourth grader with their math.

Somebody said that you can't love the second child as much as you love the first...
---- Somebody doesn't have two 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 their nose or in their 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