To All Moms.........

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Registered: 02-23-2005
To All Moms.........
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Thu, 01-19-2006 - 9:43am

I recieved this e-mail from my girlscout troop leader. Hope you all enjoy.

K:)
Subject: Somebody doesn't know mothers

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.

Pass this along to all the"mothers" in your life.


Have a Blessed Day!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 01-19-2006 - 10:21am

Sniff-sniff.. That got me all weepy! Thanks for passing it along, I will send it to the other moms in my life.

mel

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Thu, 01-19-2006 - 11:31am

How nice.... and true!


Karen ~ wildlucky4me ~