My 10 year old son is clumsy. Not clumsy in a 'fally-over' kind of way, more of a 'just not paying attention' kind of way. He drops/knocks over drinks, spills milk out the cereal bowl, splats people in the face while being some weird character or another, randomly kicks people in the head while being a
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Practicalities and useful notions from this week
My youngest is a craftaholic. She makes things out of anything that is motionless. Plus the dog. It doesn't impress him. Anyway, yesterday morning she thought it would be fabulous to do some crafting with a chilli pepper while I was upstairs getting myself ready to take her to school.
She'd stuck sticks in it, put diamonds on it, even drawn a face! There was no denying it, it was a very beautiful chilli pepper. Beautiful, that is, until it bit back. I'm standing behind a girl in H&M, Christ, she can talk. Everything is *super* super, super, super. I'm all for finding things terrific and marvellous, but she's so super happy listening to her own voice, she hasn't noticed her super hapless friend's eyes glazing over.
I could see her friend wishing she would shut the f**k up. Super small, super big, super tasty, super good (pretty sure they’re the same thing), super empty, super busy, super long....she really needs to learn a new word. I’m sure her friend would be super pleased. And super super quick, before she gives her a super high five in the face. She's gone. Super. It always seems like a good idea to go on a trip in the car with the kids. Doesn’t matter where, just to get out somewhere…..until you have to leave the house and get IN the car…..
I had the very exceptional idea of visiting a lovely National Trust property close to us. The squidlets Things I’ve Learnt This week
I’ve decided to do a series on this, in the interest of public health.
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