Can You Hear It?

It has been gone all summer long.  But it has finally returned.  It comes shortly after 7:30 am each morning and even now, at 8 pm, I can hear it.  I didn't realize how much I missed it.  But now that it is back, I realize how much I needed it- still need it.  Ah.  The sweet sound of silence.  It has made its triumphant return in the form of kids heading back to school in the morning and heading off to bed at night, not getting up to ask for water, or food, or a book, or to go to the bathroom, or to tell us something, or to give us a hug (am I missing anything???) because they are soooo TIRED from school.  Yes, silence is back.  Rock on.