Goodnight Mom

One of Ali's favorite books is the classic "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown. I saw the following in the November 2008 issue of Parenting magazine and thought I would share it with you. For anyone familiar with this book and have read it to their kid hundreds of times (as we have), I'm sure you'll get a kick out of it. It does a great job of describing some of my days.

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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

-Sarah Jio