Well considering I had to take two days off work at the beginning of the week (that cold went to my glands and head!), by the end of the week I was still up to date with my work in my new employment.

I also had a lovely surprise from my mom who met me for lunch yesterday.  We had a picnic in the park and took her dog for a walk.  It was very childish of me, but I didn’t want to go back to work, I wanted to go home with my mommy!

Speaking of childish, take a look at Emma’s Dilemmas.  She’s written a lovely piece about children for me this week.  I can so relate to it!

Anyway, I did go to the doctors on Monday, but not about the cold.  I have reached that point in life where things have started to wear out . . slowly . . but nevertheless wearing out!

I have been suffering with back ache for some time and decided to finally do something about it.  This afternoon (how efficient is that by the NHS?) I am off for an x-ray.  Must make sure I get my clean pants ready for later and make sure they are decent ones. 

At least I can start to get it sorted.  Not that I can really rest it at the moment!

I am then taking the opportunity for some me-time to get some shopping done.  So looking forward to that.

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To Be a Child Again

Oh to be a child again. 

I love that children can stare at people quite openly without being asked "what are you looking at?" or "do I know you?"

I love that they try to be sneaky about things, when you clearly know what they are doing.  My son hasn’t yet worked out why I always know he is trying to sneak ‘goods’ like chocolate biscuits out of the kitchen.  It has something to do with the hands being held in a funny way at his side, away from me and that half twist of the body.

I love the way my children can tell me quite innocently that they have drawn me a picture, but you just know from the way they’ve said it, that it’s not on paper. 

This happened recently and the big give away was that my daughter had used mascara all over her eyebrows and lip gloss, well . . . just all over her face.  I found a lovely ‘abstract’ painting in lip gloss on my living room door. 

I love that in particular scenarios if they hurt themselves they just shrug it off.  We went out for a lovely family meal once and sat at this huge square table that was big enough for the children to hide under. 

My son really banged his head on the table (despite us having said several times, be careful).  He just popped his head up over the table top, laughing and said "It’s okay, I’m not hurt" and carried on playing.

I love that they can laugh out loud at slapstick comedy.  The Chuckle Brothers are a big hit in our house.  So too is Laurel and Hardy.

I just love the innocence of their questions.  My son who is of junior school age came home once and asked me "is f**k, a rude word mommy?"

When do we pass that age and become the cynical grown ups, who still want to do all these things but feel we shouldn’t?

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"Life is to be lived.  If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.  And you don’t do that by sitting around wondering about yourself."

Katherine Hepburn

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