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Little Poets

May 11, 2009

Here’s to hoping you all have love hangovers from your Mother’s Day festivities yesterday.  My day was quite lovely.  It began with my children allowing me the rare treat of sleeping until after 9 a.m. (this is a house record I’ll have you know).  I was greeted with glee when I awoke and my favorite cookies for breakfast – Snickerdoodles.  They had been decorated with electric blue frosting (my boys remembered this resembled my favorite color).  The frosting didn’t exactly enhance the cookies  flavor, but the gesture was much appreciated (I scraped it off when they weren’t looking).  

Next I was showered with gifts – a stuffed animal octopus that makes a kissing sound, a homemade candleholder from my first grader and a homemade card from my preschooler that said “I love my Mama because she buys me ice cream”.  But I have to say the highlight of my day was the card from my first grader.  Having recently turned seven he is quite the writer and artist and picked out a nice generic greeting card with birds and flowers on the front.  Inside he drew a picture of he and I holding hands, a funny shaped heart which he titled ‘two-headed heart’,  and finally he wrote in his kid phonetics: “Heavn spok to me today, I love you.”   I can’t tell you where my little poet came up with this – but it sent me into Mama-heaven and got me thinking about children and words and how they are natural little poets. 

One of my favorite poetry books Classic Treasury of Best Loved Children’s Poems by Penny Dann  is packed with wonderful little rhymes and lyrical language perfectly suited for little ones.  I’m inspired to pull our copy off the bookshelf today and read it again with my kids – maybe my birthday card will have a full sonnet inside J. 

You can find Classic Treasury of Best Loved Children’s Poems by Penny Dann at your local bookstore or at amazon.com for a reasonable $9.95!

Artistic relief

by Kim Mordecai

July 11, 2008

I've officially checked the weather forecast and I'm thrilled to report that this weekend the temp will drop to the blissful mid-90's. Ok, I know that doesn't sound that promising but this week we topped out at 109 ridiculous degrees so in my opinion this is news to celebrate. I'm thinking that since tomorrow is Second Saturday Sac's own monthly arts celebration that while I won't tote my  Read more...