We’re hanging out the washing
before we go to bed.
Daddy lowered the clothesline’s end,
we’re pegging baby’s wash cloths,
Daddy pegs his work clothes
at the higher end,
Chloe pegs the wash cloths
at the lower end.
Claire chatters happily and
sometimes pegs a wash cloth.
She’s had a month at school
she’s a proud big school kid now.
The “letter of the week” always
brings her great excitement.
She can’t wait until it’s “u”.
She’ll draw “underpants”
in her alphabet homework notebook
for her kind new teacher.
This baby brother cries a lot,
things get changed around.
Mummy cooked the bolognaise
but then he wailed again.
Daddy put out our dinner
then we ate it, just we three.
Here comes Mummy now,
the baby’s gone to sleep.
We’ll clean our teeth,
get into bed, and hear
our bedtime story.
lifecameos 
The all important ‘bedtime story.’ I remember that so well. Well said, Cameo.
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It soothes shattered nerves of the whole family on all occasions, even when the breadwinning parent goes to sleep in the middle of it.
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Or heavily pregnant parent! When carrying our second child, I regularly fell asleep telling stories to our then 3 year old — and he still remembers this…… (fondly, thank goodness)
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And two little girls are going to remember everything about baby brother’s arrival. They will be telling a few stories I’m sure.
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