Sleep like a baby
At inconvenient times
And rarely at night
A Haiku By A Sleep-Deprived Parent
Sleep like a babyAt inconvenient timesAnd rarely at night
Sleep like a babyAt inconvenient timesAnd rarely at night
Sleep like a baby
At inconvenient times
And rarely at night
James Proclaims! 
19 responses to “A Haiku By A Sleep-Deprived Parent”
I’m going to show this to my boss and tell her, “James Proclaims.”
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Good luck with that and let me know if it works
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I’ll call you from the unemployment line.
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Time Tested Advice For Frazzled Fathers.
Should ‘lil ones head nod
Then into the land of Nod sinks
Wearily say ‘thank God’
And grab forty winks.
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Probably doesn’t apply if she nods off while I’m driving on the M25 though?
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True… a motorway cafe car park?
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My daughter check-mates me there too – she wakes up when the car stops moving…
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That is typical babies for you.
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10CC sang: ‘It’s daybreak in the land of Nod, so go to sleep you little sod,’
That used to go through my head frequently when my kids were small.
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That could be my new anthem
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It was mine for a few years.
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A teaspoon of gin
then you can sleep in!
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I’m going to need more gin than that. Oh, you mean for her…
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Great poem I remember those days, How about this??
Eat like a Birdie
Messy distracted and gone
Also like a child
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Definitely messy, but the high chair keeps her in place and I ignore her plaintive cries of resistance.
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She’ll figure out how to slip out, or undo the tray sooner or later
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She’s getting closer each day
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A sad fact for parents. A sadder fact for innocent and unaware parents!
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May you live in interesting times.
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