Thursday, January 18, 2007
Bedtime At Chez Lewis
As I get ready to wind down and put to bed another day at the new house, I sit and think, "Will I get all the crayon and scuff marks off the walls before Addie starts coloring them again." Perhaps, this task is like the tireless pursit of perfection, Never ending! AHHhhhhh! Someday...until then I bid you all goodnight!
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Baptiste and I feel so privileged to be the one link on your family blog! We hope to see you all sometime soon!
You need the Mr. Clean magic eraser. Go get one at the store. It really works! It takes crayon and scuff marks off a lot easier. Believe me, I know.
This poem is nice, I think:
Things You Didn't Put On Your Resumé
How often you got up in the middle of the night
when one of your children had a bad dream,
and sometimes you woke because you thought
you heard a cry but they were all sleeping,
so you stood in the moonlight just listening
to their breathing, and you didn't mention
that you were an expert at putting toothpaste
on tiny toothbrushes and bending down to wiggle
the toothbrush ten times on each tooth while
you sang the words to songs from Annie, and
who would suspect that you know the fingerings
to the songs in the first four books of the Suzuki
Violin Method and that you can do the voices
of Pooh and Piglet especially well, though
your absolute favorite thing to read out loud is
Bedtime for Frances and that you picked
up your way of reading it from Glynnis Johns,
and it is, now that you think of it, rather impressive
that you read all of Narnia and all of the Ring Trilogy
(and others too many to mention here) to them
before they went to bed and on way out to
Yellowstone, which is another thing you don't put
on the resumé: how you took them to the ocean
and the mountains and brought them safely home.
-- Joyce Sutphen
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