Goodnight Mom

This is a poem that I saw in Parenting Magazine. It really made me smile, so I thought I would post it here, for your reading pleasure.

Goodnight Mom

(with apologies to Margaret Wise Brown)

In the messy green family room

There was a telemarketer ringing the telephone

And a crying toddler because his brother just popped his red balloon

And a picture of-

The cow jumping over the moon (which someone colored on with permanent marker)

And there was a missing teddy bear,

And a girl with gum in her hair

And one to be scolded

And laundry to be folded

And a very hungry spouse

And something stinky in the house (that no one else seemed to smell)

And a comb and a brush

And a colicky baby who just won't shush

And a frazzled mommy screaming #*%#@

Goodnight messy room

Goodnight scribbled-on moon

Goodnight cow getting out while she can

Goodnight telemarketers and the popped balloon

Goodnight long-gone teddy bear

Goodnight cereal bar smeared all over the dining room chair

Goodnight spitup

And Goodnight leaky sippy cup

Goodnight much-too-little house and

Goodnight grumpy spouse

Goodnight comb and goodnight brush

And goodnight to a certain 4-year-old who just needs to hush right now I mean it

Goodnight Elmo

Goodnight toys we'll pick up tomorrow,

or the next day

Hello chardonnay and TiVo-

"me" time finally

-by Sarah Jio