As my children were growing up, we had a house with room for our children and their friends to play. We kept our big dining room table open for cards, puzzles,board games. The pool was always ready for Marco Polo, volleyball and diving competition. Our yard welcomed games of croquet and badminton. We often had 20 – 30 kids at one time and sometimes as many as 50. The memories will long outlive the street lamp in the front. My children were all home this past weekend for a late Easter. We stayed up late eating, laughing and playing games.
swarms of giggles
one yard, play four seasons
makes a house a home
Do kids make your house seem more like a home?
The prompt at Poets United Midweek Motif is Home.
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Yes I think so. 🙂
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Kids ‘make’ a home. Then, there are Grand Kids… the ‘re-make’. Smiles_! _m
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waiting for more giggles …
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Nice memories…
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Indeed…a lovely memory to share.
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Such a lovely thought ❤
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Your children had/are having a lovely childhood. I remember those years of children’s laughter so well. I never had as many as 30 or 50 in my house at one time though. I know how much you love children and can well imagine that your house was the place kids loved to be. Yay!
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Well we have less energy so a few at a time works for us. Thanks Sherry
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I cannot take credit for the environment that really was created by my children – but Im grateful ours was the house picked to hang out
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How wonderful. Your children were blessed.
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Home is truly happiness…so beautifully expressed…
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So true…beautiful haiku 🙂
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There’s just such a warmth about this poem. Thank you!
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Definitely they do… 🙂 Wonderful haiku..
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I love it when my kids visit! They are all grown up now–but such fun!
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A home is made, when love is the balm that smooth the nicks and cuts, one gets, throughout life, whether or not, you have children. And this love flows, through your haiku.
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Love can heal past scars also
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I’m so glad you enjoyed a good time with your kids. I only have one child and she usually only had a few friends over. Never 50. Nowadays, when my grandkids visit, it sure adds spirit to the house. But, no it doesn’t make it feel more like home necessarily. Just a home being recharged. Nice writing Leslie.
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yes we have that sense of energy as well
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Lovely post! Sounds like a houseful of love with all the kids hanging around.
Trisha Faye
http://www.herbthyme.wordpress.com
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I am sure most of us will have memories such as this with kids playing and laughing that we can look back in with such delight as they have now grown up. Beautiful!
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I am grateful to the many people in my life who modeled love and acceptance to me as a child as my parents were absent.
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What a lovely home you must have had, Lesley! Nothing more enjoyable than being surrounded by a home full of children.
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
OTHERWISE, IT’S JUST THE TWO OF YOU!
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Our place was like that when my boys were growing up. I loved it!
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children liven things up to be sure. Once we had the football team at our house when we were away – amazing the house was still standing 🙂
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Wow! 50 kids? … or 20 or 30?
As a nanny I’ve dealt with as many as 15-20 kids at one time, but I can’t even imagine double that. It’s lovely that you had such an open home that kids from all over felt comfortable coming and just being there. 🙂
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Always lovely to have the young ones around – your haiku is lovely 🙂
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The opening line is so beautifully descriptive and dramatic. Delightful.
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I feel I can hear the ‘swarms of giggles’. Very lovely.
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I like this swirl of memory and time – when home is warm it surely can’t be beaten
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Always. Even as grown men now. My heart sings when they are all under my roof together. Such fun!
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So true – There always remains a bit of “kid” in them even as they age.
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How wonderful!
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yes. I see and feel it and feel very happy for whoever has this!
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