Countdown to my Mother's Birthday 4

My mother has five children.
She, too, is stunned by this.
I just woke up and was the mother of five!

Of the five, at this moment,
two have broken bones.
Kenny, 12, was sliding into base;
Madeline, almost 10, fell off her bike.
The rest of us, at least on the surface,
appear unscathed.

I imagine she hears bones
cracking in her sleep--
brittle as birds--

It's a wonder she's managed
to keep us all
so whole for so long.