ABC's of Twenty Years

I guess it is a Friday, isn't it? I was going to post last week, (was it really last week?) but I forgot. I don't know what I would have posted as we didn't have our computer in KC, just Sarah's. I am so mixed up on days right now that it could be almost any day of the week for all I know. Anyway, I thought since it was so late and I have been busy with other things, that I'd post the poem I wrote commemorating the 20 years that we have been friends with the Cov's.:) It is hard to believe it has been that long! But, here is the poem. Enjoy!

The ABC’s of Twenty Years
by Rebekah Morris

A is for Asking “Can we go play
Out with the Cov's (or M's’) today?”

B is for Baking muffins galore
Crystal and Sarah just kept making more!

C is for Catalpa tree house so high
Playing for hours up there in the sky.

D is for Digging out in the sand
Searching for treasures long hidden from man.

E is for Eating staying outside
Together for supper the Moms might decide.

F is for Friendship twenty long years
Joy and sorrow, laughter and tears.

G is for Games in parking lot or yard
Soccer, spud, whiffleball, we did play hard.

H is for Handwork needlepoint, knitting, crochet
We’d work for a while and then we’d go play.

I is for Imagination creative I’ll say
The things we pretended lasted all day!

J is for Jehoshaphat Jimmy was the king
And in the Sissy Choir the rest of us did sing.

K is for Kitchens dirty pans and pots
We’ll never finish washing ‘cause there's lots and lots!

L is for Learning together with friends
All the States on the sidewalk, the song never ends.

M is for Mothers best of the best
For so many years we gave you no rest.

N is for Neighbors right down the street
Borrowing, playing just can’t be beat!

O is for Outside those were the days
We spent play-day together in various ways.

P is for Prairie best place to go
We studied and loved it as pictures now show.

Q is for Quiet a very rare thing
For our pastime of playing would make the air ring!

R is for Reading and roller-skating too
Riding bikes and remembering no rainy day blues.

S is for Sledding, sewing and swings
Secrets and sleeping and so many things.

T is for Tire swing, teaching and trees
Triplets and talking most important of these.

U is for United at many an event
Birthdays and parties that’s where we all went

V is for Voices inside and out
Talking and laughing and giving a shout!

W is for Walking “Its time to walk!”
Around and around we’d go on the block.

X is for neXt things events yet to come
We know of a certainty they won’t be humdrum.

Y is for Yesterday the days now past
The memories we cherish are the things that will last.

Z is for Zero trips to the zoo
Perhaps some future day we’ll go there too.