supervising from the couch: Daily Haiku

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Daily Haiku

Photo Scrooge has started a new blog, called Just Seventeen Syllables, where he will delight readers with his poetry. I told him that it would be even cooler to have a dueling haiku blog, with two or more haiku posted so people could vote for the best one, but I wasn't about to up against him. Although I did offer up this one last night:

Leaky foundation,

mold...who knew? The b@$!*#^s who

lived here before us.

3 comments:

The Simmons Story said...: Who know you were so vocal? must be a reaction from the mold.; May 21, 2008 at 5:25 PM
Rachel said...: That was funny! Well, except for the part about your foundations....and I'm so impressed by Rob's poetry!; May 22, 2008 at 7:55 PM
K said...: We love haiku poetry!!! Rob and I used to make up haikus on the drive between Iowa and Salt Lake
(18 hour drive)...we got really really good, almost speaking in haiku. I'm very pleased that "your" Rob has started this blog. I'd like to suggest the idea of multiple authors for the blog so we can all join in the fun.; June 30, 2008 at 3:56 PM

here's the story:

I was interviewed for a newpaper article about kids and sleep, and quoted as saying something like "when I'm tired, I feel like supervising from the couch." Ever since, it's been our catch phrase for slacker parenting. Ironically, I only had one child at the time and we were practically attached at the hip. Now that I have four older kids, they spend chunks of time playing without even the benefit of me watching from the couch. However, I do try to come running if it sounds like there might be blood. Somehow they have all thrived in spite of me.