Saturday, December 30, 2006

I found it!

I wanted to post this poem earlier because it is how I feel this Christmas, but I couldn't remember where I read it. Turns out it was on Stacy Julian's blog.
Here it is:

Funny, Funny Mother!
See Mother.
See Mother laugh.
Mother is happy.
Mother is happy about
Christmas.

Mother has many plans.
Mother has many plans for
Christmas.

Mother is organized.
Mother smiles all the
time.

Funny, funny Mother!

See Mother.
See Mother smile.
Mother is happy.
The shopping is all done.
See the children watch
TV.

Watch children, watch.
See the children change their
minds.

See them ask Santa for different
toys.

Look! Look!
Mother is not smiling.
Funny, funny Mother!

See Mother.
See Mother sew.
Mother will make dresses.
Mother will make robes.
Mother will make shirts.
See Mother put the zipper in
wrong.

See Mother sew the dress on the wrong
side.

See Mother cut the skirt too
short.

See Mother Put the materials away until
January.

Look! Look!
See Mother take a
tranquilizer.

Funny, funny Mother!

See Mother.
See Mother buy raisins and
nuts.

See Mother buy candied
pineapple

And powdered sugar.
See Mother buy flour, dates, pecans,
Brown sugar, bananas and
spices.

Look! Look!
Mother is mixing everything
together.

See the children press out
cookies.

See the flour on their
elbows.

See the cookies burn.
See the cake fall.
See the children pull
taffy.

See Mother pull her hair.
See Mother clean the
kitchen

With the garden hose.
Funny, funny Mother!

See Mother.
See Mother wrap presents.
See Mother look for the end
On the Scotch tape roll.
See Mother bite her
fingernails.

See Mother go.
See Mother go to the store
Ten times in one hour.
Go Mother, go.
See Mother go faster.
Run, Mother, run!
See Mother trim the tree.
See Mother have a party.
See Mother make popcorn.
See Mother wash the
walls.

See Mother scrub the rug.
See Mother tear up organized
plan.

See Mother forget gift for Uncle
Harold.

See Mother get hives.
Go, Mother, go!
See the faraway look in Mother's
eyes.

Mother has become
disorganized.

Mother has become
disoriented.

Funny, funny Mother!

It is finally Christmas
morning.

See the happy family.
See Father smile.
Father is happy.
Smile, Father, smile.
Father loves fruitcake.
Father loves Christmas
pudding.

Father loves all his new
neckties.

Look! Look!
See the happy children.
See the children's new
toys.

Santa was very good to the
children.

The children will remember this
Christmas.

See Mother.
Mother is slumped in a
chair.

Mother is crying
uncontrollably.

Mother does not look
well.

Mother has ugly dark circles
Under her bloodshot eyes.
Everyone helps Mother to her
bed.

See Mother sleep quietly
Under heavy sedation.
See Mother smile.
Funny, funny Mother!


Ha!

This is just too true to life because no matter what, the bulk of the Christmas workload always falls onto mom. I don't ever see that changing unless Christmas gets cancelled.

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