Boy

Hard to
Understand what I
See in your
Blasé attitude about
Amost everything and
Nothing.
Don't
Get
Up.
Ya-ta-ta.

Girls ii

Loud
Unique
Lovely
Untiring

Girls i

Preoccupied
Emotional
Talented
Eager to grow up

Sun

It's been very gray and rainy here recently. So much so that we've had to turn some lights on during the day from time to time. This morning, Lulu was playing with a flashlight, wandering around, shining it on the ceiling and in people's eyes and stuff. At one point she came to me and said, "Mommy? Could you turn off the light in the play room, please, so I can shine my flashlight?" The playroom was very bright and not good for flashlight shining, but here's the thing. It's not rainy today. To turn off the light in the playroom would involve some kind of science I'm not familiar with and would probably make everyone else in the whole world mad so I had to tell her that, no, Mommy cannot turn off the sun.

More from Moomie

April second
Precipitation
Water falls

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One More

Rae has agreed to join us! The more the merrier!!

Moomie: Guest Poet Extraordinaire

My friend considers April First
As his own special holiday;
In times gone by you wouldn't know
What kind of tricks he just might play;
But now the structured working world
So frequently gets in the way.

No more clocks turned up-side down,
No more squirrels a-dangling,
No more phone lines switched around,
No more chair wheels jangling!

Still its fun to think about
The cheerful days back then -
When my friend worked til 2 AM
To get done 'fore openin'
And then for all to laugh and sigh
While tangles we were sortin'.

Happy April Fools Day!!

Thank you, Moomie, for starting off the guest poet-ing. I look forward to more!!

A List of Go-Getters

The Grandpa (who did not accept my challenge) reminded me that it would be a good idea to post links to the bloggers who did so that you don't have to go searching through my comments to find them yourself. So far I have 3 takers-of-my-challenge and 1 more who is posting his writing in honor of National Poetry Month but I don't think it's because I challenged him. They are:

• Mommy T
• septembermom
• Princess Sparklepants and
• Marty.

I haven't had a chance this morning to visit their sites but plan to as soon as I get finished here. You go check them out too. And if you decide to post poems for Poetry Month, even just one, let me know. Oh, also, last year I did a sort of guest poet program where I would post your poem for you if you sent it to me. I'm all for that this year too so send them along!

Commencement

As you set out from today,
The beginning,
The first,
Keep this at the fore of your thoughts
-Thirty is the Magic Minimum.

We're at the start
of something...

So with appropriate
Pomp and Circumstance
Toss your cap
In the air (in the ring)
And let us embark.