Baking Bread

I love to bake bread and cinnamon rolls and cookies and you name it. I love to bake it … and eat it!!

Baking by Tedi Wixom    January 4, 2012

Baking, I’m baking

I’m making some bread

In goes the water

Yeast, oil, flour and lead

Just kidding you know

Cross off the last said.

Baking, I’m taking

Components for bread

A spoonful of salt

Two spoons of sugar

I’m kneading the bread

I’m raising the bread

I’m punching it down

We’ll soon be all fed

Baking, I’m baking

Mm! Fresh loaves of bread

Supper was yummy

It’s now time for bed!

Pain All Around

Here's what happened Monday to me in poetry form.

January 3, 2012

Pain All Around by Tedi Tuttle Wixom

Aches and pains from neck to ankle

One eyelid keeps a twitching

A tumble I took down the hall

A circumstance not bewitching.

Stepping quickly, blindly I hit a paper-filled crate

Sending me headlong, twisting, bobbing

And there upon the floor I fell

My shinbone and ankle throbbing.

A scream emerged from deep inside

Much like a Banshee on the warpath

I wasn’t sure what all else ailed;

Time out for an Epsom Salt bath!

I propped up my leg and sighed aloud

Placed on some ice bags and then waited

I fell asleep there on the floor with

Pain, I felt excruciated!

Upon my bruises I rubbed some Vicks

With a layer of Aspercream next

On my ankle went some peppermint oil

News I sent to my kids by text!

When I awoke the next morning,

My bruised leg felt stiff and sore

My lower back began to twinge

With muscles throbbing to the core.

My mind seemed dull, my senses gone

Haltingly I hobbled ‘til eight

I tossed down a shot of Monavie

To help me to recuperate.

Today I Sat a Reading . . .

Here it is a new year. Poetry is running around in my mind.
Writers are readers. Here is what was on my mind on Jan. 3, 2012

I read on my bed
I read during breakfast
I read for lunch
Oh how the time passed

I read history online
I read the news
I read in the bathroom
I read before my snooze

 I read from my couch
 I read inside my Jeep
 I read in my recliner
 I read before I went to sleep.

 What things did I read today?

-Atlas of the Greek World by Peter Levi
-Deseret News 
-A History of Ancient Greece, TROY; The Glory That Was Greece by Lewis Jewsbury 1992 [online]
-St. Caldea: The History of Caledonia by John McClarin. 1879, Dunning. Find online at        newensign.christassembly.com   [Talks about the people who settled Troy.]
-Greece a topic from The New book of Knowledge Encyclopedia 1986
-The Book of Mormon, (I Nephi Chapters 5-7.) Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr. 1830
-Supermoo! by Babette Cole 1993
-The Secret of the King by Rachel Ann Nunes 2005

Dr. Mom

Dr. Mom  by Tedi Tuttle

For our 26 Wedding Anniversary

26 years it’s been since I tied the knot.

26 years I’ve been raising children and cooking meals.

26 years I forgot all my old friends

26 years is a long time to think about doing anything.

26 years is about as many years as it would take to get a PhD,

So . . . I’m saying I’ve received my PhD in Momhood

Now, just call me, Dr. Mom.

It’s a science to have nine kids

It’s a science to raise them too.

It’s a science to know how to communicated with a spouse

     and to figure out how to treat the in-laws too.

It’s a science to get kids through those formative years; broken bones,            

     Immunizations and illness and bloody noses and knocked out teeth.

It’s a science to know all about dance lessons, piano lessons,

Violin lessons, and soccer, basketball, and gymnastics too.

It takes guts and grit and stamina to some days get through it all.

I am honored to say that it’s all been worth it

Amid the tears, the trauma, and even the heartbreaks.

I’ve trained a large brood to: brush their teeth, mind their manners,

and wipe their noses properly. Tie their shoes, read, do times tables,

and to say “I’m sorry,” when the time calls for such. 

Yes, there has been some bad times and a lot of hard times,

A lot of down time, and a lot of blue times.

A lot of wondering what-the-heck-do-I-do times,

Even pull out your hair and scream-to-the-top-of-your-lungs-time.

But, there’s also been lots of good times, celebrations, and sing-your-heart-out-times,

Giggle, and roll on the floor times and many I’ll grab you in a big bear-hug times.

It’s been a long haul with a lot of time-outs,

     A lot of missed promises, and days when the doctor’s out.

But, I’ve learned many things first hand and some second hand too.

Looking back, I wouldn’t have changed a thing.

So, if you need some advice, I’ve been there a lot!

Do you need a listening ear? or someone who cares?

Just call me, Dr. Mom – I’m home.

By Dr. Mom, AKA Tedi Tuttle Wixom