Goodnight Mom.....

I found this in a Parenting magazine today, while I was actually waiting to be seen by Atlanta's GREATEST ENT, Dr. Mark Yanta. I have this obnoxious cough and my ears and sinuses are feeling funky, so I figured I should get it checked out, after 3 weeks of saying it would go away. Moms you know what I am talking about, we are always taking care of others, but never ourselves, blah,blah,blah.... Anyway, this is for anyone who might have read Goodnight Moon one too many times......

Goodnight Mom(with apologies to Margaret Wise Brown)
By Sarah Jio, Parenting

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 brushAnd 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