Things I have done today:
- sorted through 3 sets of children's clothes
- had a cup of coffee that was still hot when I finished it
- had a grown up conversation on the phone, for over 10 minutes
- attacked the scatter bomb aftermath appearance of our house
- looked at IKEA storage solutions
Things I haven't done today:
- had one conversation about what colour light sabre Darth Vader has (red if you are interested)
- made a den
- wondered what happens to popcorn that is stuck up your nose
- been deafened by shouts of excitement and/or fighting
- stopped a small boy from climbing on the counters to reach the biscuits
- been stopped in my tracks by the bizarreness of a question
- eaten ice cream.
It was the end of the holidays. I was desperate for them to go back to school. But now they've gone, there is a lot less fun.
Did you send Sam too?! Or is he just not quite up to the Darth Vader chat yet...?
ReplyDeleteActually I am *so* desperate for them all to go, I can't imagine the "less fun" bit. Ask me again in January when S and A get a funded nursery place and I have just the one child of an afternoon...
Our dinner time conversation tonight went like this:
ReplyDeleteMe: 'so what happened at school today?'
son 1: carries on chewing food, no comment
son 2: 'You know when you die and you get buried. Can you come alive again?'
And thus started a 30 minute conversation on Jesus, reincarnation, heaven, comas, life support machines, and out of body/near death experiences.
You see, no matter how infuriating and exhausting kids are, they create some fantastic conversations.
I know I have managed a hot cup of tea without locking myself in the loo to drink it. Saying that I am already missing them!
ReplyDeleteYou're allowed to eat ice cream when they're not there, you know. You can savour every mouthful, not having to worry about whether you should be setting a good example and having fruit instead.
ReplyDeleteHere's a way to make that cup of coffee even more delicious. Have a bowl of ice cream next to it. Put a small bit of ice cream on a teaspoon. Lower the teaspoon into the coffee carefully, so that the coffee laps over the side and fills the rest of the spoon, but the ice cream doesn't float away. Put in mouth. The combination of hot/cold, and sweet/sharp is just too divine for words. (Not "too diving for words" as I first typed that.)