Motherhood Is Not For Sissies

My very best friend in the world (30 years!), Karen, gave me a great book called Motherhood Is Not For Sissies. Here are some of my favorite quotes from the book along with a picture of me with Karen taken during our weekend at the Country Music Awards in Las Vegas last month.

I'm the blond one.....on the right.

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A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces that she never did care for pie.
-Tenneva Jordan

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
-Phyllis Diller

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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
-E.W. Howe