Poetry Contest

Meg and Matthew have a poetry competition coming up for school and needed poems to recite.  I looked online and didn't find quite the right poems for them so I just wrote some real quick today.

Here's Meg's

Turkey Day

It’s turkey day! Gobble Gobble!

We’re gonna eat til we wobble

With all our chums

Until we need tums

And then back home we will hobble

It’s Turkey day, what a treat!

There’re so many things here to eat!

Stuffing and yams

Potatoes and hams

Black Olives and jiggly red beets

 

It’s Turkey Day! Family’s here!

From all their homes, far and near

To celebrate blessings

With turkey and dressings

Thank you , Lord, for miracles dear.

Stephanie Shumway

Here's Matt's

 I love Christmas

I love Christmas! Do you know why?

There are candy canes, elves, and reindeers that fly!

Stockings with oranges way down in the toe

Twinkly lights, carols, and don’t forget snow!
But do you know why I love Christmas the best?

Baby Jesus was born so that we could be blessed.

-Stephanie Shumway

Here is a runner up. I started writing it for Matt, but it got too long.

Cookies for Santa

I’m leaving out cookies for Santa
So he can stay all fat and pudgy

There’s a reason that he stays so happy
It’s cause he eats chocolate that’s fudgy

He starts out so thin in November

But as holidays come he gets plump

Eating turkey and taters and dressing

And his favorite: Roasted Rump!

So I’m leaving out cookies for Santa

To help him fit in his red suit

It’s a way to say thank you to Saint Nick

For all of this sweet Christmas loot.

 

-Stephanie Shumway

Catching up in a paragraph

I haven't posted since September 1st?!?!  hoy! ok, real quick- Aaron is cast in Copperstar productions' The Sound of Music as Captain Von Trapp and I am cast as Sister Sophia and Maria's understudy. Megan is in the preshow show choir, and Matthew starts soccer on Wednesday. I went hiking on Labor day at Telegraph Pass and yesterday (saturday the 11th) at Camelback.  Loved both hikes! Matthew got his head cracked open last night with a metal baseball bat (accident) and got a cat scan.  It freaked out the babysitter and the friend who did it.  Everything's ok, though. no worries. DONE!

HAIKU WEDNESDAY!

Today's theme: Exercise

This morning we left the basketball court lights off during our workout..... I remarked how weird it was to wake up to exercise so early that you can still see the stars when you start.

Five in the morning

Star gazing, sweat in my eyes

Orions weight belt

Link up, yo!  I changed the linky dink since some people don't have a blog to which they can link. You can just fill in your haiku if you don't have a blog. Otherwise, the rules remain the same. You have until midnight tonight to write your exercise haiku. woot woot!
ADDED NOTE!! When you post, put two spaces then a slash and two spaces again between lines.  so.... Huffy Puffy Me / Wheezing while I push and pull / Back of Parking Lot