With Dr Seuss’s birthday and Read Across America day occurring in March, a poem felt appropriate to describe what life can be like with kids!
They talk without reason they sing without rhyme
They live without any regard for our time
They’ll eat all your food, they’ll take your good snacks
They’ll ask for fast food when you have lunches packed
They come in the bathroom when you need to go
They act like you’ve said yes when you’ve told them no
They sleep without worry
They wake without care
Pat our face with sticky fingers
Twirl their fingers in our hair
They climb up the couch with shrieks of delight
And turn bedtime into an MMA fight
They play in the dirt, they’ll drink from a hose
But offer a veggie and they turn up their nose
Just who are these miscreants running our lives?
Our babies, of course, center of our tribes
They hold our hands, our attention, our hearts
They give us their love and amaze us with smarts
They sing little songs and make little jokes
They giggle like mad and tickle us with pokes
We hold them each night as they drift off to sleep
And pray for their futures ‘cause babies don’t keep
We wouldn’t trade one single second of this
Not a hug or a snuggle or even one kiss
So hold tight to your babies before they grow up
And remember this feeling when you find an old stinky milk cup.
