Julie over at Musings from a workaholic wrote a lovely post about her sons and the various activities they got up to as kids.
It reminded me of an Irish poem that my parents had up on our fridge when I was young. I will post it in it’s original Irish form (and it is much nicer in Irish) but I’ll also post an English translation. I think those of you with kids will love it.
Subh Milis
Bhí subh milis
Ar bhaschrann an dorais
Ach mhúch mé an corraí
Ionam d’éirigh,
Mar smaoinigh mé ar an lá
A bheas an baschrann glan,
Agus an láimh bheag
Ar iarraidh.
Jam
There was jam
On the door handle
But I quenched the anger
That rose in me
Because I thought of the day
That the door handle would be clean
And the little hand
Would be gone
Seamus O’ Neill
Also, a big thank you to Lydia for the Sunshine Award. I know I’ve taken forever to get to it so apologies! To spread a little sunshine to your day, here’s a picture of me on my graduation day:
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Note: That is not actually me. I’m much less adorable.
CUPID OR CATS 
Even those of us (me) without kids love it too! 🙂 And I love your graduation pic! hahaha 😛
Me too, it’s lovely 🙂
Ha, thanks. Although I think I look a bit “ruff”. Ahem.
hahahahaha 😀 😀 :p
Love the poem! Congrats on yet another award! That dog looks like he’s proud to wear his cap. 🙂
I..I mean, he,sure was 🙂
I’m sooooo confused! lol
I love this! The poem almost makes me want to stop referring to those boys as my birth control poster children. 😉 And congrats on your award!
Hahaha, I proper laughed out loud at that, thanks Julie 🙂
You’re welcome. 🙂
No kids. But that was a lovely poem. Thanks for translating it!
My Irish is a little rusty so I hope it’s actually right but thanks!
Love your grad pic, its amazing what a shave can do for your appearance!
I know. Although I need to stop howling at things.
You look beautiful. Love this poem, I will remind myself of it next time one of my lads bottom burps in my face.
Thanks, I was going for a kind of wolf look and I think I pulled it off.
Hahaha, yes, that’ll work hopefully!
Thats a beautiful poem. I love it.
Thank you! Is it lovely 🙂
Yikes. If I posted this poem on my fridge, the kids who could read would kick me.
I tried to kick my dad in the shin once and almost broke my toe.
Gorgeous graduation pic, Janey! You clean up well… 🙂 And I didn’t know you could read Irish! you are full of surprises… I play Irish drum. Well, sort of. So it’s kind of like the same thing. Except totally different. Anyway, love the picture, even though a T-Rex doing the hustle would have been nice…
I could read Irish while you play the drum. We could be famous I tells ya!
Yeah, I was trying to find that picture but it must just exist in my imagination, which is a pretty scary place, so it’s probably best not to go there.
Ha ha, love this 😀