Showing posts with label childhood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label childhood. Show all posts

Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Perks of Being a Cool Mom

1:40am

Parenting strikes me as the sweetest past-time I have tonight.

Tomorrow it may be another activity but for now, I am wide awake and reliving the evening's ongoing activities.

They swam and swam and swam as long I would let them.
They dined like the young ladies they are, complimenting my fine grilled cheese sandwiches as "the best and quite tasty. "
Then they asked for their ice cream.
They launched a movie to watch tossing them selves across the carpet and said,
"Ready for kettle korn. A BIG bowl."

To be witness to a young pure friendship brings the widest smile I can possibly make to my face. And I forget awhile all the things I have promised myself I will do while they amuse themselves. To be an eavesdropper this evening is my dessert.

Two bright and happy and funny little girls are being so present to each other they have forgotten I am here.

Till they realize they are hungry again...

Haiku series dedicated to Bronte and Heidi

The quiet fills in
with a soft reflection on
a tender evening

Laughter earlier
tumbled down the hallway as
two young souls played

Sweetest this friendship
long will it be a fixture
in my memory

Young girls innocence
and a summer spent laughing
till they fell asleep

Tomorrow more time
please mum more time together
more time together

Ah yes, it is simply that simple. How come we forget so easily and so often and for so long?


Saturday, July 25, 2009

residues of a tender time

Do you like adocavos?

Could you tell me what you think a booktangle is?

Ever jumped in muddle-pullies for fun?

Want to meet me nexterday?

Are you a good ordinator?

Will you answer all the questions I ask mom?

(I hope my daughter never stops making up words: she is a constant source of inspiration and laughter.)