Out of the mouths of babes

My kids wrote their dad some poems for father's day... Below are some of them.

I found them very honest and funny! :)

Poem1:

Papa is so nice
Not like a mice
He is mighty strong
And his arms are very long

You're a great photographer
We love ur pictures, yes we do

You have a big tummy,
And u're not a dummy

Papa, we love u.
Yes, it's true

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Poem 2: papa, u're the best!

Papa, we love you
Yes we do
When you aren't with us,
we're very blue

You tell us stuff we don't know
And when u do, we know it so

You have shaggy hair,
Though it looks silly, we don't care

Thank you papa
You're the best!

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End of school year

Done are the days of shuttling kids back and forth, baking multiple brownies for multiple school events, arranging playdates, extra classes...and that should be something to smile about, yes?

You would think so...but the truth is, I always face the end of every school year with a highly emotional note.

My kids have always gone to very transient schools where every year they have to face losing their best friends or their teachers or both.

And nothing breaks me more than to see these little hearts broken...

I sometimes wonder how these experiences are going to affect them long term...will they fear relationship? Will they grow calloused to goodbyes?

As we are moving school this year, we found ourselves in the goodbye-end and I find myself still suck at saying goodbyes.

I busied myself with all sorts of things. Anything really that can save me from having to say goodbye.

But at the end of the day, I guess life goes on and the days of sleeping in and not baking brownies is something to look forward to after all.