Print this out give to Lori! Cathy Ya might add, that if you don't want your kids cursing ya got to Not CURSE too! What we all do as mothers, affect our kids, but you know that! And you know that its hard being a mother, but being a mother, means sacrificing our time energy to making our kids wonderful caring adults, THAT:S WORK! Love,Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: To: [email protected] Sent: 3/13/03 10:21:41 AM Subject: [PABeav'r] Somebody said... 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 a "good" mother never raises her voice... ... 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 if you're a "good" mother, your child will "turn out good"... ... somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee. Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother... ... somebody never helped a fourth grader with his math. 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 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 you can't love the fifth child as much as you love the first... ... somebody doesn't have five children. 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 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. ==== PABEAVER Mailing List ==== ---------- ALL CAPS or UPPER CASE Letters Permissible Use ---------- When typing a surname? YES! Absolutely! A must! For general text? NO! It's shouting, bad manners (Netiquette) and hard to find surnames. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571 sourceid=1237 --- Cathy Raber --- [email protected]