Things I'm Loving Right Now

Eating dinners outside on the patio on these warm nights.
Exchanging goods from our yards with neighbors.

Special, quiet times with my love, knowing that our world together will soon be changed.
Referring to our baby girl by name. (And NO we're still not telling what it is!)

The anticipation of feeling baby girl move...are those flutters really you sweet one??

Poems shared by others that speak to my heart:

Give me patience when little hands

Tug at me with ceaseless, small demands.

Give me gentle words and smiling eyes,

To keep my lips from hasty, sharp replies.

Let not fatigue, confusion or noise

Obscure my vision of life's fleeting joys

So when years to come my house is still,

Beautiful memories its rooms may fill.

                                                                                                  ~ Unknown

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Babies Don’t Keep

by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

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.