'The Dust Has Settled' Poem by Linda Winchell

The dust has settled now
The kids are down for the night.
Hubby's tummy filled with to much dinner and desert
His gut's about to burst!
And is really quite a sight!

Now my time to do kitchen clean up
Dry and put all the dishes away.
Time for me to reflect
To take a good hard look, back on my day.

My youngest daughters a hoot!
She'll drive anyone, crazy, ' bug nuts! '
She has to be right on everything
And dealing with her teen years, is getting really tough!

Alone I sit in the kitchen, after dishes are done
It's my time to relax, sip a hot cup of coffee
While dunking our dinner's, left over honey wheat bun.

Nice I think, crazy as it sometimes is
But I wouldn't change it for anything.
No matter how expensive it is!

I'm that Mom that my Mom was
Who raised all of us five kids.
I never thought that I too could do it
But can now look back at, just what it is that I did.