Babies (and kids) Don't Keep

It's busy as usual here. I've had a long week with Matt and Kayla both having sinus infections (makes for more interesting days, that's for sure). I found this poem in someone's blog (can't even remember who's) and really related to how I feel with the kids. I'm pretty sure they won't remember that the floors weren't always vacuumed, and dishes always done, but they may remember me sitting on the ground to play games... so here's the poem for you to enjoy (author unknown). And please excuse my home if you visit anytime soon :)

Babies Don't Keep

Mother, of Mother, come shake out your cloth

empty the dustpan, poison the moth,

hang out the washing and butter the bread,

sew on a button and make up a bed.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?

She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue

(lullaby, rockabye, lullaby 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 her eyes the most wonderful hue?

(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,

for 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.