Things You Didn't Put On Your Resumé 
    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 way out to
    Yellowstone, which is another thing you don't put

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

                          Joyce Sutphen