I know a real post is due, but I laughed til I cried over this and had to share. This is from Parenting magazine, it's been a long time since english class so I don't know how to properly cite it but props to the author. Kudos to those of you with more than one kid, I don't know how you do it! Hugs to you all, real news will come someday, but for now just know we are well.
Goodnight Mom
In the messy green
family room
There was a telelmarketer
ringing the telephone
And a crying toddler
because his brother
just popped his
red baloon
And a picture of--
The cow jumping over the moon
(which someone colored on
with permanent marker)
And there was a missing
teddy bear, and a girl with
gum in her hair
And one to be scolded
And laundry to be folded
And a very hungry spouse
And something stinky in the house
(that no one else seemed to smell)
And a comb and a brush and a colicky
baby who just won't shush
And a frazzled mommy screaming #*%#@
Goodnight messy room
Goodnight scribbled on moon
Goodnight cow getting out while she can
Goodnight telemarketers and the
popped baloon
Goodnight lost teddy bear
Goodnight cereal bar smeared all
over the dining room chair
Goodnight spitup
And goodnight leaky sippy cup
Goodnight much- too-little house and
goodnight grumpy spouse
Goodnight comb and goodnight brush
And goodnight to a certain 4-year-old
who just needs to hush right now I mean it
Goodnight Elmo
Goodnight toys we'll pick up tomorrow,
or the next day
Hello "coke" and TiVo--
"me" time Finally
--Sarah Jio
