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May 16, 2005
Phew!
Thank you for all your wishes. I handed in my essay this afternoon and I’m so glad to have got it out the way that I’m not thinking too much about the embarrassing quality of writing. (Just you wait until I get that mark back!)
That daughter of mine has been great, she has barely been out the house all weekend and has been mostly playing quietly in the corner, although perhaps her being under the weather had something to do with that. (Stop it! I wouldn’t even think of saying it)
Yesterday evening when it was all getting a little stressful for me and she was becoming a little clingy (ie wanting to sit on my lap and add plus and minus signs all over my essay for some reason) I opened my big mouth and started promising the world. Yes I sat here and said that if she could be good for one more night then tomorrow afternoon when it was all over, I would take her anywhere she wanted. In fact why didn’t she go back over there in that corner and think of something really nice that she would like to do with Mummy tomorrow afternoon.
Of course I instantly regretted every word, thinking she was going to come back and tell me she wanted to go to Disneyland, Glastonbury, the Moon or worse McDonalds.
So she went off to her little prison corner, thought about it for about two minutes and then returned to let me know that she had made a decision. I closed my eyes took a deep breath and said,
‘Fire away…’
‘I want to go to Town…’
‘and…..?
‘Go to a shop….’
‘and….?’
‘Buy an Ice Cream’
‘and…?’
‘Eat it in the park.’
‘and…?’
‘That’s all’
And lest she should disturb me any longer she silently ran back to her toys.
Because the weather gods were not as impressed with my daughter’s humility as I was, the temperature dropped about 10 degrees overnight and it pissed down with rain the whole afternoon.
But gawddammit we still went into that health food shop and got her favourite ice cream and ate it sheltering under a bus stop (well it was near the park) and I even treated her to a book of her choice from Oxfam Books, making sure I didn’t miss out on all the fun myself.
Just don’t ever say that we don’t lead exciting lives eh?
Posted by purple elephant at May 16, 2005 08:03 PM