Magpie Tales 40, 40.5 Monkey Business and Jingle Potluck

Traveling in Mexico has kind of

shortened my ability to blog.

So I am cheating a bit and using the following

for both Magpie Tales and Jingles Potluck Poetry.I hope that's okay?

First I googled Capuchine Monkeys because of Willow's photo prompt for this week's

Magpie Tale and came up with this website:

http://london.dootee.co.uk/capuchine-monkeys-for-sale-iid-73349701

How dare they????????

Capuchine babies for sale

How many dollars per tail?

Ripped from their mothers hearts

How could anyone take part?

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After I posted the above- I wanted to write something a lot more posisitve-so here's a second try for Magpie Tales and also for Jingle's Potluck Poetry:

Magpie 40.5 and Jingles Potluck Poetry- this week's theme is Moods, Feelings and Emotions

My children are little monkeys-

hanging from trees and swinging with ease-

life is so simple wanting only to please-

their thoughts are wise under those blond curls

much more valuable than a string of pearls

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When my youngest son was only 4 years old he said to me-

"Are you happy because it's a sunny day?"

With a start I heard those words and realized that I was allowing the weather to affect how I behaved. From then on I viewed each day as a gift and not a bother if it wasn't a sunny day. He helped me see how ridiculous I was to let myself get into such a bad habit. A wise child indeed.