I poured half a bag of Epson salts in, turned the water on hot, and grabbed my really good book.

After about ten minutes, David decided to join me. He and I started filling a balloon up with bubbles from the pump soap dispenser and squirting it at the walls. It made great patterns.

After about ten minutes, Rose decided to join us. She sat on the bathroom floor and read us poems from her new book, Love That Cat. She caroled three times through "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe with its tongue twisting tintinnabulations. Then she gave a gleeful rendition of "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams.

I got my hair washed. David got his hair washed again. Rose decided she would start a new list in her new journal: favorite poems.