No Matter How You Spell It ...

We believe in multi-tasking
Many uses for one thing.
A game to play - a board that rhymes
And tells our happenings.
So the time is now turned over
Amid the snow and burrrrrr
To our Christmas blogger
Mr. Scrabble, sir.

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I'm the game played round the world.
Perhaps you've heard of me?
A checkered board of pink and blue
With blocks from A to Z.
In twenty ten my tiled I-s
Have seen the happen-ings -
The highs and lows of each new day
Within this fam-ly scene.
So, upon myself I took the task
To pen their yuletide card.
I gathered verbs and adjectives
But found the next part hard.
Describe a dad, a mom, a girl,
A girl ... another and another.
My mind was all a swirrrrl!
With no way to form a proper noun,
My mem'ries got confused.
I took a breath and changed my play
And found the Q got used!
Connecting all the words I learned,
It wasn't where they went or what they tried -
What made this year for them a win -
The peace they felt along the ride.

(December 2010 - The Family's Scrabble Board)

Quiet Likeness

Forget the crunchy goldfish.
Toasted oats - so yesterday!
The key to being rev'rent,
Sitting still while speakers dish,
Is to draw the girl beside you
Catch her charm in ev'ry stroke.



Merci, sweet Sabbath Stranger
For your sketch and rev'rence too.

A Hungry Citizen

Living in the USA
Lots of freedoms come your way.
Blog in rhyme if you want
Even use a dif'frnt font.

My blood is red and white and blue
Patriotic through and through.
Apple pie is the best!
For sure I'd ace a civics test.

Honest Abe, I'd love to meet.
Hot dogs are my fav'rite treat.
So no surprise I got to greet
This kindred spirit - nugget meat.

All 50 states in one sweet bite.
To resist the taste - so impolite.

Our Newest Addition :)

Some say you get the biggest breaks

When you’re the youngest one.

But, golly gee and goodness sakes -

It’s hard to be the little one!

So, she asked with puppy eyes

“Mommy, please, and, um, daddy too –

I’ve really got to talk to you!

I think it fair, I think it wise

To let you know it’s time tonight -

For a brother. Is that alright?"

Who snubs the plea of one

So cute – so dear – so young?

Blue she wanted - so blue she got!

We even named him : Little Scott.

Hallelujah! Haiku Update

Three uses for this
Corrugated U-haul box:
Store and move and blog?

Way too much to do
No time to update their blog.
Now the task is mine.

I might be a square
But, I see their every move.
Tracking what goes on.

Birthdays past were grand!
Wow, they're all in school now.
Did you know they moved?

Only broke one plate. :(
Roller coaster fun for some.
AP Tests were hard!

Kittens found new homes
Got lost inside I-KE-A!
Yippee, got a Wii.

Girl Scouts on TV.
Micheal Bolton contest won -
Second honeymoon. :)

Now you're in the know.
Sorry, no pics. Gotta run -
Hot date with the Tape.