<p>D’s writing grant apps,
S1, AP Eng essays.
S2, book reports.</p>
<p>Only one of them
Can illustrate the work with
pictures of Garfield.</p>
<p>S1, not too clean
Until his older sis said,
“No rides in my car.”</p>
<p>She also refused
to transport festering gear
from fencing matches.</p>
<p>Since then his hygeine
attitude is much better.
GF probably helps.</p>
<p>HarrietMWelsch,
Festering fencing gear, ick!
Fabulous haiku!</p>
<p>Guess I should give thanks –
didn’t know my clean kiddo’s
such a minority.</p>
<p>Only on weekends,
doesn’t like to wash his hair,
but has less hair now!</p>
<p>But with rehearsals
every Saturday morning,
weekends smell good too. :)</p>
<p>hist’rymom, your girls –
brother up close, personal –
must think guys hopeless!</p>
<p>Harriet, tell him:
No more fencing, try swimming
Workouts equal baths :-P</p>
<p>HarrietMWelsch
Our haiku talent is so great.
We need proofing help!</p>
<p>My eyes are getting slow
Can’t catch up with my muse flow.
I need better glasses.</p>
<p>gadad, haiku
isn’t as important as
cappuccino bills…</p>
<p>No featured status,
but many loyal parents
check in frequently.</p>
<p>I check in too much!
And the dumb kitchen and laundry
languish, calling me!</p>
<p>Oh, Mrs Weasley,
My S1 does some swimming,
when teaching sailing.</p>
<p>Nothing smells worse than
teenager marinated/
steeped in the Hudson.</p>
<p>I feel unkind now.
Please let the record show: He
cleans up really nice.</p>
<p>Funny, Harriet!
geek_son got annoyed over
my dinner haiku.</p>
<p>"I was gonna say
thanks so much for this great food,
but now won’t bother…</p>
<p>“So thank you, mother –
just the way you suggested –
dinner didn’t suck!”</p>
<p>Laptop, jazz shoes, FOOD,
a new set of quads and F:p:pD.
(Did I mention F:eek::eek:D?)</p>
<p>Money talks, they say.
With a teenager at home,
mine just says good-bye!</p>
<p>HMW:
How did they get so
Tall, smart, smelly, good-looking,
good-hearted and neat?</p>
<p>Love the hugs and smiles,
Conversations at dinner,
but keep shoes away. :-P</p>
<p>Oh Mrs Weasley
Rather than pay room and board
May we rent your tent?</p>
<p>B.O., AXE, and socks
might trigger warm memories
once they leave for school</p>
<p>…but not yet.</p>
<p>Stuffy, sneezy nose,
red eyes itch and burn like #ell –
AXE is just evil.</p>
<p>All throughout Tech Week,
everyone shies away from
the guys’ costume room.</p>
<p>Give me kids’ BO
over that junior-high cocktail!
(Hmmm, well, maybe not…)</p>
<p>Or how about this –
I’ll just check on eBay for
a nice, tight gas mask!</p>
<p>The AXE inventor
should have sought the sound advice
of older sisters</p>
<p>HMW funny
D opposes fencing gear.
don’t shin guards smell worse?</p>
<p>Hist’rymom, God knows
NOTHING smells worse than shin guards.
They were in the trunk.</p>
<p>They ask of our boy
He’s in college now we say
Which means we don’t know;</p>
<p>Then how is your girl?
She’s in college now, we say
Which means we know ALL</p>
<p>Sorry Hist’rymom,
Hubby borrowed Perkins’ tent,
We really have none.</p>
<p>Son’s “great” internship
now not great: economy.
What can the guy do?</p>
<p>Company told him
understood if he says “no.”
But now, what choices?</p>
<p>Turned down the others
in favor of this good job.
But it’s not good now.</p>