Holidays

Holidays

Noise, chaos

Laughter, tears

Mess and mayhem

Fast and slow

Paper everywhere

Pencils and pens

Cooking in the kitchen

Food on the floor

Clothes in the hallway

Records go 'round and 'round

Doors left open

for flies to come an' play

Friends join in

Up the tree and down

In the sandpit, trampoline and swing

Ropes tied from here to Timbucktoo

Breaky from 8 till 10

and lunch from 2 till 4

Dishes left on the sink

Dinner nearly forgotten

and bedtime slips out of control

Books devoured

Games all over the floor

Projects spill into each other

Curtains drift in the breeze

Then....stop

Time for school again

Alarms,

Lunches to make

Piano to practice

Beds to tidy

Hats on heads

Brush your teeth and hair

We're off and running again.