Exactly

I feel like this is kinda dorky to admit, but I really love the Writer's Almanac on NPR. I hear it every morning on the way to work and the stories of the writers' lives are pretty interesting, but it's the poem each day that I look forward to. This past Tuesday was one that really struck me.

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 that you don't put

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

By Joyce Sutphen