What a day!!! Where do I begin??....
Firstly, I hope everyone had an amazing fathers day, and I hope all those single mums out there that play 'dad' had an amazing day too!! My kids had such fun with there fathers......wow, that sounds bad! I only have two kids, by two different dads....and I'm digging a hole so I will move on now....! I'm still a nice person :)
It's my daughters birthday on Wednesday! She will be a whole 1.... So special! I remember my sons first birthday, on a farm, lots of dogs, kids and horses, and kids and dogs and horses, and kids in horse poo... Bit different this year for my daughter! We are having a family BBQ (Braai - for the SA folk) at home. Now this family event has gone from being very intimate and small, just me, my 2 kids and my partner, to a whopping 24 people! I know, 24 is not a lot for a party, but you need to picture this..... I only have 3 seats in my living room. The one is a 2 seater sofa, the other a rocking chair and the other is a leather lounger that looks somewhat like a slide.... So that's 4 people sorted for seating and the rest will have to sort of 'Perch'
or.....
Yes, that is what my daughters first birthday family portrait will look like!
Back to the story.... I went shopping today with both my kids (bad idea - note to self, must get a nanny!) and yes you guessed it, it was pure hell..... My daughter was ripping up all the cards, my son was buying everything and anything in the shop (Happy 80th Birthday Banners). The idea I had was to give him a job that would keep him happy and quiet....
ME: Choose some nice things for your sister, Poppet (cause that's what people in the UK call their kids and it seems to work), and put them like a big boy on the counter!
Taide: OK Mom *takes basket*
ME: *wonders around in a daze thinking did I hang the washing up before I left? Did I put the dog away? Can anyone smell poo, I can smell poo.....oh my god, my baby has pooed on me!!!*
Taide: I'm FINISHED, he bellows across a not so big shop!
ME at the till: How much is that?
TILL MAN: £162.74
ME: Whhhhaaaaaaattttt!!!!!!!???????????? I look across the counter and we have about 44 bags of party stuff.... Urm, could you possibly take a few things out of there as I just don't have quite that amount.
TILL MAN: Yes sure, no problem, how many bags should I take off??
ME: 43!?
So, that was my shopping experience with my kids, never again!
Came home and carried on searching for email addresses for my data base (Yes people, I need more).
Cooked dinner, then my son wanted to wrap the baby's presents, so I left him to it, until he decided to wrap the dog too! So I had baby screaming in my ear, my dog barking because he has been wrapped up in pink Happy Birthday paper, I'm feeling really stressed and my son shouts out:
MAAAARRRRMMM!?!?!?!? HUMANS ARE MADE OF TUNA AREN'T THEY!??
And that just made my day :)
Keep smiling all .... Oh and keep sending email addresses: megdaviesdt@gmail.com
xx
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