Friday, January 28, 2005

Somebody Said

(Jordyn and I, this was after her dx we were still in Germany. I believe the pic was taken April '99)

 

Somebody Said...

 

Somebody said that a child is carried in its mother's womb for nine months.
Somebody does not know that a child is carried in its mother's Heart forever.
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.
Somebody said it is ok to take your anger out on your mother she will understand.
Somebody needs to understand that mother will not live forever and should not have to understand.

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.
Somebody said you don't need to visit your mother more than once a year,
she knows you still love her and understand why.
Somebody never lookedinto the eyes of that mother to her soul.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love this entry. It's great and so true. Thanks!

Laura

Anonymous said...

Simply lovely...