the children and I wandered the house
  seeking the terrible monster
    "Aghast!" cried my dear Samuel
  "thar be the beast!" cried my dear delilah
"Ar, that be no beast!"

i cried unto them
  " 'tis but your mother!"
   the children gasped and
  cowered behind my legs
"she's like one when she's mad.."

began my beautiful Nicolai Jr.
  I covered his mouth
   and prayed to God my wife
  had not heard my child
I heard a snarl from the other room

and we all shrieked in
  terror of the beast
   for she is quite ferocious
  when she awakes
to find our morning messes

I woke up for my dream
  and waited for my wife
    to yell at me for the mess around me