Rockingham Remembered
Wilson's Picks
For All The 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.