I've taken a couple of months off from this blogging malarkey - and now I hope I'm back. Having the kids around during the summer months keeps me away from the computer, or, at least, having to share it with them.
I'm still enjoying my summer and looking forward to the weather warming up again in the next few days. I hope to get to tell you some summer stories and share some photos of Summer 2009 over the coming months.
Today, we've been back to school shopping. This inspired me to search for a poem I wrote a couple of years ago. We were shopping today for school supplies ... and ... erm ... underwear!
Our church has just kicked off its annual Back to School supply drive called "Backpacks and Boxers". We gather together backpacks and school supplies along with new socks and underwear and donate them all to a local charity called Clothes for Kids in the city of Lynnwood.
The kids and I enjoy shopping for back to school items every August ... and I always feel so very blessed to be able to buy my own kids school items and new clothes.
I think this poem was birthed out of the kids and me laughing at silly cartoon character underwear in one of the stores ... it got quite out of hand and the result is a not very politically correct poem, which would struggle to make it to print anyplace else ... but on my blog :)
Enjoy, and it feels good to be back!
Smalls, tighty-whiteys, boxers, underwear
All for the kids – let’s show them we care
Bikinis, boy-leg, high-cut, but NOT thongs
Buying those as a church outreach would be wrong!
Little bums, big bums, it don’t matter
Pick some large if you wish for the bums that are fatter
Buy a pack of each size to cover your bases
Think about the kids as you’re shopping at Macys
They’re on sale today, for return to school
Buy boxes and boxes – now THAT would be cool
Flower prints, power rangers to name but two,
Buy one, buy all – its really up to you
Reaching out to families, locally, in need
It’s what we do here, so please take heed
Clothes for Kids will receive our briefs
If we don’t do this, we could see kids wearing … leafs?
Friday, August 14, 2009
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