Thoughts From the Minivan: The pool is open.

The pool is open.

And I have 3 kids begging me to go.

Whereas last year I vowed to myself that I would look like this when the 2010 season started:

I am sad to report that this is instead what I look like:

Happy Summer!

4 comments:

Tiffani said...: You are CUHRAZY!!!; May 24, 2010 at 3:04 PM
Amber said...: Oh.Dear.Heavens.

You must put up a no.drinking.coffee. warning on posts like this. I just sprayed coffee out of my nose all over my screen.

Thanks for that.; May 24, 2010 at 3:36 PM
MarblesForMommy said...: I bet that girl on the right is feelin mighty fine!; May 25, 2010 at 12:44 AM
Unknown said...: As Gretchen herself would say, "I lurrrrve this post!"; January 12, 2011 at 11:41 AM

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Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing, make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo

The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
And out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
But I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo
Look! Aren't his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.

The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

-Ruth Hurlburt Hamilton (1958)