Poem: "Things You Didn't Put On Your Resume" by Joyce Sutphen.

Things You Didn't Put On Your Resume

How often you got up in the middle of the night when one of your children had a bad dream,

and sometimes you woke because you thought you heard a cry but they were all sleeping,

so you stood in the moonlight just listening to their breathing, and you didn't mention

that you were an expert at putting toothpaste on tiny toothbrushes and bending down to wiggle

the toothbrush ten times on each tooth while you sang the words to songs from Annie, and

who would suspect that you know the fingerings to the songs in the first four books of the Suzuki

Violin Method and that you can do the voices of Pooh and Piglet especially well, though

your absolute favorite thing to read out loud is Bedtime for Frances and that you picked

up your way of reading it from Glynnis Johns, and it is, now that you think of it, rather impressive

that you read all of Narnia and all of the Ring Trilogy (and others too many to mention here) to them

before they went to bed and on the way out to Yellowstone, which is another thing you don't put on the resume:

how you took them to the ocean and the mountains and brought them safely home. 
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