Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

And So It Begins

And So It Begins

And so it begins…
Six deliriously excited, eager grandchildren
Inviting themselves to Grandma's house for another week 
Of Cousins Camp! In July.
I read their list of projects and burst out laughing.

Play dough, Legos, water fights, forts, bonfires,
Make s’mores, paint, do the ice bucket challenge – use grandma
Spray grandma with the hose and make her scream.
Not this year, I told my husband. I do not have that many clothes.

They arrived on a Wednesday, within an hour of each other.
Their mothers beaming, glad to be free, for a week.
Ran around screaming like hyenas being chased by hungry crocodiles.
Then their mothers left, probably sneaking off to have coffee.

“Oh, Grand….ma!”  A sing-song-y voice said.
I turned and SPLAT! Hit full force in the face 
With ice cold water from an intensified hose end.
And so it begins….


Written 2/10/2019     
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Contest:  And So It Begins….

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M. L. Kiser February 11, 2019 at 4:48 PM You need another hose...twice the fun! Caren Krutsinger February 11, 2019 at 6:35 PM You think I only have one? Aha. So did they!

Arturo Michael February 11, 2019 at 1:53 PM I feel what you wrote is true to you and many others too...what you didn't do with your own kids... their children do it to you... Caren Krutsinger February 11, 2019 at 2:23 PM I did it with my own children too, enjoying them to the inth degree! I have always related to children so much quicker than I have ever related to adults. Thank you for noticing.

Rhona Mcferran February 11, 2019 at 12:23 PM "Not this year"- wishful thinking! So very true-to-life (as always)... ;D Caren Krutsinger February 11, 2019 at 2:23 PM Thank you Rhona. This was no stretch of the imagination. I honored this contest with pure untouched truth.