poxwatch
Monday, November 30, 2009
I found this photo at my parents' place when I was visiting last month. That's me on the left, aged three and a half, with my brothers Robert and Jim. I hadn't seen this photo before and am struck by how much I looked like Maggie, but without the glorious hair of course.
Maggie came down with chicken pox last Thursday. After a few days of lassitude and misery she's now perky and very bored with her isolation. Unfortunately, perkiness or not, she's still developing spots so is still contagious. If anyone in the Wellington region wants to bring their young'uns over for a pox party – retro idea I know – do get in touch.
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helpful handy hints
Little-known fact: you can use BluTak™ to remove splinters. Very useful when the splintee is in don'tlookatitdon'ttouchit mode (– Ok, Becca, tell you what, I'll use tweezers. – TWEEZERS!? WHAT ARE TWEEZERS???!!!) This public service message is humbly brought to you by my throbbing frontal lobes.
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3bt
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
We've been busy. I'll catch the blog up at some point. Maybe. But for today, I'm going to pinch Clare's idea (like hundreds of others) and blog three things that have made me happy:
- For the first time ever I let the girls get their photo taken with Santa. Becca scrambles up onto the throne and poses happily. But to get Maggie to pull her thumb out of her mouth and smile, I have to stand by the camera in the middle of the mall and pull faces, do monkey impressions, caper, gurn, leer and, at one point, shove my fingers up my nose. It works and I'm rewarded with two dazzling smiles. 'Great job Mum: can you come back tomorrow?' quips the photographer.
- As I clear up after the kids' dinner, Maggie grabs the hoover off me and sets to work. 'I helping Mama,' she declares proudly.
- To depersonalise the house before showing it, we took all the kids' art down from the kitchen cupboards. Now that we've sold the place, and with a few weeks to go before we move, I decide to stick the recent artworks up, and our kitchen is colourful again.
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