after watching a duck family...

You need to know that I really love my life. But as my friend Queen Latifah (aka Cheryl Lovejoy) so accurately pins it: there are "moments when the cup of boyhood seems to runneth over and the cup of grace seems to runneth under!" So allow me to blow off some steam - I'm not quite over our most recent adventure yet.

(Many of you wanted to know where we went and what possessed us? Well, Scott had to attend a TradeShow in the beautiful, artsy, cooler Greenville, SC with the Reedy River running through downtown (click for pic). So naturally I reasoned (mistake #1) that going along would be easier and more fun than staying home "alone" (mistake #2).)

So here is Part II of our adventure (thanks for listening - I feel better already):

Reflections of an exhausted, temporarily “overcast”, human mother.

On the Reedy we watched a show:
“The McQuack Family On The GO!”
Mother duck so calm and cool
leads her eight(!) boys to the pool.

Now mother duck –
she has some luck
keeping her big soled boys in line.

So very unlike me and mine…

Duck boys (naturally) keep close to mom
She calls - they (naturally immediately) do come!!
Must be ‘cause ducklings have no soul
Thus temptation they do’ know…

Oh mother duck
– you are in luck:
your soulless boys stay in line!

So very unlike mine

who not so well behave
because to them the Maker gave
a way to know (t’is the soul)
the irresist'ble charm of temptation
(hence stepping out of line an option)

On the Reedy they watched a show:
“The McMurph Family On The Go”
A chaotic fest – contained typhoon at best
Exasperated mother aimlessly behest:
Observe!
Swerve!
Conserve!
Preserve!
Incurve!
Subserve!

(sigh)

Oh mother duck, you are in luck!