WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MOTHER

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Registered: 10-31-2007
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MOTHER
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Mon, 12-03-2007 - 6:30pm

iT'S AN OLD ONE BUT A GOOD REMINDER


>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 front door just in time to see her child put a
>pin on the neighbor child's bicycle seat.
>
>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 a rolled up,
>used BandAid up her nose.
>
>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.
>




iVillage Member
Registered: 08-17-2005
Tue, 12-04-2007 - 11:35am
Love it, love it!

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-26-2007
Tue, 12-04-2007 - 12:05pm

This was wonderful....laughed and teared up a bit too :)