Leaps and bounds, and now ultrasounds

Sleepless hours and baby showers

New lease on life, pregnancy glow on your wife

Hot

Decorating the empty nest.

While wiping down the baseboard paint, a thought occured to me,
Of a little girl in bright red

Some green on the walls

A lamp in the halls

Draped in flannel shawls

Will make my house the best of all.

An inverse chair

And

Swatches, samples, magazine clippings...
Tiles and chips and wall paint drippings
Tough decisions here and there
Choices, choices

They said the change would help.

I painted walls from blue to cream,
then rubbed stained door frames back to wood,
removed