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DCI

2005-03-26, 10:14 am

Subject: mothers and grandmothers

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 mistakenly 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 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.

QQQte@webtv.net

2005-03-26, 10:14 am

i really enjoyed this. it lifted my spirits and brought back wonderful
memories.... dory

........" There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in
the best of us that its rather hard to discern which of us ought to
reform the rest of us"...........
.........Alain Fournier.........

QQQte@webtv.net

2005-03-29, 7:15 pm

i really enjoyed this. it lifted my spirits and brought back wonderful
memories.... dory

........" There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in
the best of us that its rather hard to discern which of us ought to
reform the rest of us"...........
.........Alain Fournier.........

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