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A day off from school meant ...

cleaning
organizing
tossing
sorting
laundry
folding
putting
away.

lunch
break
watching
the
*s
   n*
o*
  w*
fall.

taking
girls
skating
laughing
falling
snuggling
napping
waking

dinnertime
still
watching
the
*s
   n*
o*
  w*
fall.


packing
changing
splashing
swimming
lessons
soundly
sleeping
shhhh.

a full day of work at home.

Comments

  1. But such a great way to spend a day off and inside - lots of accomplishments and fun besides. Love ya, Mom

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  2. I always love your poetic way of sharing your day. You make watching the snow fall sound fun...although I am soooooo done with winter:)

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  3. I love how you wrote snow in your poem! I love that you took the girls swimming on the snowy day. That probably was so-much-fun. xo

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  4. Sounds like a very busy day off ;-) and maybe I need two little girls to enjoy watching the s*n*o*w*

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  5. Love the poem - a tumble of words, just like your day was a tumble of doing. My 'days off' are the same.

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  6. Such a busy day off. I like the time between the lunch and the dinner, and ofcourse shhhh sleeping time. :)

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  7. I always love, love, love your poems. In this one, I especially appreciated the first and last lines, as well as the snow intermixed. You captured it well, and it was easy to connect to.

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  8. Such fun, watching your poem move through the day, Michelle. And I love that the girls are learning to skate. We lived on a lake when the kids were young, and my son was skating well by the time we moved. Just have to get them moving!

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  9. Love what you did with the snow, Michelle - I'll have to remember that!

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  10. I enjoyed your writing. It sounds like an exhausting, but fun day.

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  11. Love snow days like this! I so wish I had children to share snow days with!

    I also love this poem! It's so, very creative!

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  12. What a fun day! But I am really ready for spring!

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  13. Love this snapshot of your day, especially the snuggling and napping, and the poetic way you showed us the snowfall! Swimming lessons do lead to sound sleep and shhh at the end of a busy day.

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  14. Love how you showed the full busy-ness of a "day off", Michelle! The "snow fall" was my favorite! Sounds like you had a wonderful day, even though it was busy. Sometimes, those snow days are the gifts we need to live the rest of our lives outside of school!

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