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Damp Enthusiastic Borrow Unadvised Wheel Property Balance End Foot
I was glad it was a damp day:
My body less than enthusiastic
For any kind of exercise.
Instead, I decided to borrow some smiles
From the kids – get excited
About Lego and train tracks.
There were strong arguments
Concerning the merits of both;
So the livingroom became our playground
Despite this move seeming unadvised.
Eldest always starts
With the tracks’ ‘turning wheel’;
Seems to devise
A new way to incorporate property –
Like a station, or a garage for electric cars.
Youngest searched the bricks
For each specified piece
To begin a coveted helicopter;
Complementing our fire house build
And letting him tick things off, too.
The balance always shifts in time,
The draw of brotherly collaboration calls,
And soon my boys are ‘testing’ all
Spaghetti-curving lines.
Steam and diesel models
Co-habiting with pleasure;
Happy whoops and giggles
As each story’s told and grown.
And I’m at the branch end
Taking my foot off the brake:
Listening.
Tomorrow is the return to school/nursery.
I am dreading it.
It has not been the easiest of Summers here, with Eldest being out of sorts for much of it, but I will still miss them a LOT as the whirlpool of term time sucks them away from me again. Plus I am liking the boys’ uber-affection that has slowly reappeared in the last three weeks or so!
I have laid out their uniforms already, checked everything has a nametag and that gym shoes are accounted for. We sharpened Eldest’s pencils yesterday and rounded up stray work that had wandered into his bag at the end of P2 so we could return it to classmates (!)
I have a note of what the school meals are for the coming weeks, and Youngest is looking forward to his nursery snacks, too 😉
The boys have done the fashion show and know all their school clothes fit ok. We know that their stress toys I made them (they call them ‘Panenis’) are still hibernating in their bags, and can be told secrets and slights until Mummy can cuddle them better. We will talk about ‘heart-strings’ tonight at bedtime, no doubt.
It has been a pretty good last day, the boys both said that the ‘shell pasta with cheese and sausage’ was a very suitable ‘last dinner’ (which made me teary). Hubby has played with the mentioned train track now, and it has been photographed and cleared away so that we can all manoeuvre tomorrow as we try to get out of the door for 8.30am!!
All will be well, but still my heart is heavy. Primary 3 and the preschool year of nursery. How did we get here so quickly?!
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August 23rd, 2017 at 5:54 am
I like it – a very touching poem.
August 23rd, 2017 at 6:26 am
Thanks X