Things You Didn't Put On Your Resumé
From the December 5, 2006, installment of The Writer's Almanac, a poem of the same title by Joyce Sutphen:
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 mentionthat you were an expert at putting toothpaste
on tiny toothbrushes and bending down to wigglethe toothbrush ten times on each tooth while
you sang the words to songs from Annie, andwho would suspect that you know the fingerings
to the songs in the first four books of the SuzukiViolin Method and that you can do the voices
of Pooh and Piglet especially well, thoughyour absolute favorite thing to read out loud is
Bedtime for Frances and that you pickedup your way of reading it from Glynnis Johns,
and it is, now that you think of it, rather impressivethat you read all of Narnia and all of the Ring Trilogy
(and others too many to mention here) to thembefore they went to bed and on way out to
Yellowstone, which is another thing you don't puton the resumé: how you took them to the ocean
and the mountains and brought them safely home.

re: Things You Didn't Put On Your Resumé
My wife and mother would love this.