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a verse you may be able to relate too

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spinel · 04/04/2005 17:21

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 the hardest part of being a mother is labour and delivery.
Somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of school

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.

Pass this along to all the "Mothers" and "Grandmothers"in your life!

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huskygirl · 04/04/2005 17:23
Smile
Snugs · 04/04/2005 17:51

(luv you mum x)

JoolsToo · 04/04/2005 17:54

fab!

sacha3taylor · 04/04/2005 17:55

Thats brilliant - so true

cod · 04/04/2005 17:56

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JoolsToo · 04/04/2005 17:57

bah humbug!

mummytosteven · 04/04/2005 17:57

so what's your fave english parenting poem then Cod

cod · 04/04/2005 17:58

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mummytosteven · 04/04/2005 17:58

snort

i was thinking more along the lines of philip larkin and "they f you up, your mum and dad

cod · 04/04/2005 17:58

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JoolsToo · 04/04/2005 18:00

I particularly like this one

"Somebody said being a mother is boring.
Somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's permit"

cod · 04/04/2005 18:00

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lilsmum · 04/04/2005 18:00

pmsl @ cod

JoolsToo · 04/04/2005 18:01

you're BATS!

jangly · 04/04/2005 18:04

Yes Jools too! You never forget those first few drives, do you?!

ks · 04/04/2005 18:08

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cod · 04/04/2005 18:10

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iota · 04/04/2005 18:13

ks a modern classic

Now our little boy came up to his mum in the kitchen this evenin'
While she was fixin' supper
And he handed her a piece of paper he'd been writin' on
And after wipin' her hands on her apron
She read it - and this is what it said

For mowin' the lawn - five dollars
For makin' my own bed this week - one dollar
And for goin' to the store - fifty cents
An' playin' with little brother, while you went shoppin' - twenty-five cents

Takin' out the trash - one dollar
Gettin' a good report card - five dollars
And for rakin' the yard - two dollars
Total owed - fourteen seventy-five

Well, as mum looked at him standin' there expectantly
And I could see the mem'ries flashing through her mind
And so she picked up the pen, and turnin' the paper over
This is what she wrote

For the nine months I carried you
Growin' inside me - No charge
For the nights I've sat up with you
Doctored you, and prayed for you - No charge
For the time and the tears
That you've cost through the years, there's No charge
And when you add it all up
The full cost of my love is No charge

For the nights filled with dread
And all the worries ahead - No charge
For advice and the knowledge
And the cost of your college - No charge
For the toys, food and clothes and even for wipin' your nose
There's No charge, son
And when you add it all up
The full cost of my love, is - No charge

Well, when he finished readin'
He had great big old tears in his eyes
And he looked up at her standing there and said
Mama, I sure do love you
Then he took the pen,
And in great big letters
He wrote PAID IN FULL

Lord knows when you add it all up
The cost of real love is - No charge

ks · 04/04/2005 18:35

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ks · 04/04/2005 18:37

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ks · 04/04/2005 18:38

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iota · 04/04/2005 18:39

just print them off, ks, and carry them with you always

cod · 04/04/2005 18:39

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ks · 04/04/2005 18:41

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