Today I came across
my own Expand-o gun.
It makes anything big —
I think this will be fun!
I aim it at my bed
until it fills the room
then slide down from the top
in my king costume.
I cut a little seat
out of a juicy pear
and then I expand it
into a royal chair.
I plan to turn a tack
into a mighty sword,
but my gun won’t stop —
I even yank the cord!
It hits the toilet bowl.
I watch it grow and grow:
The handle’s in the clouds!
That’s bad! I have to go!
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There are a dozen houses
in our neighborhood
each of them is brown
with siding made of wood…
Except for just one house
that always gets a stare.
That is where is I live —
It’s covered in blue hair!
The door is triangles
that open up and down.
If I do not clean them,
they almost seem to frown.
All of the window blinds
blink throughout the day.
Our porch light sneezes mud
if I bring home a bouquet.
I have to trim the fur
in our brick chimney
or the mantle starts
to looks like a goatee.
So if you’re coming over
to knock on my front door
I hope you’re not surprised
when my house lets out a R-O-A-R!!!
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The garbage truck howled
and rolled down our street
while searching the curb
for fresh trash to eat.
A kind humble beast
with two blinking eyes
and large steal teeth
surrounded by flies.
Leaving recycling
it ate all the rest,
from tacos to bolts
— and even a chest!
It’s so important
it always stays fed…
or it might just eat
a mailbox instead.
After months and months of passing up baby-sitting offers, my wife and I recently decided to have our first date night. Taking time for a date was our best idea this year! After twenty minutes of discussing our routines and what sort of dirty diapers we had changed , we actually started conversing like adults. We laughed. We talked about how we were doing… and we both finally relaxed.
So should parents have a date night? Assuming you have a reliable baby-sitter, the answer is YES!
One of the biggest struggles my wife and I had finally setting aside some time for a date was that we felt guilty leaving our kid behind. We felt like we were abandoning him — but this was all in our heads.
When you become a parent, you are a PARENT. There aren’t many breaks… newborns need a lot of love attention, so it’s natural to feel guilty, but that doesn’t mean it’s right to feel guilty. Leaving your kids with a good baby-sitter, food, water, shelter, warmth, etc is far from abandoning them. If you don’t build up a bank of energy, how are you going to keep giving-giving-giving?
Even if you have the best kids in the world like me, they’re still kids… and that means parenting is tough. You owe it to yourself to have some downtime so you don’t go crazy. Sometimes its helpful to get away so you can admit how tough parenting or talk with your partner about how they’re actually doing.
When I became a parent, I was amazed by how much my life was dominated by routines. Kid like schedules. They need regular feeding, attention, changing, etc. Sometimes you forget what it’s like to do something spontaneous — like order a dessert. Plus, playing is a great way to relieve stress. (Toddlers play all the time and look at how few heart attacks they have! :)
Fitting an occasional date into your life won’t be easy, but it’s worth the effort. Dates are a great way to reconnect with your spouse, unwind and be an adult (instead of a Mom) for a night. So enjoy — you deserve it!
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I dug the middle out
of my French baguette,
and cut a dozen holes
to make a clarinet.
Sally got old buns
to make a xylophone.
Sam used two bread sticks
like a slide trombone.
We took our instruments
beneath a poplar tree
and when we all had tuned
we played a symphony.
Our music was superb!
A fascinating sound!
So that is what we do
when we “loaf” around.
Authors Steve & Natasha