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- Have you ever gotten a tad emotional in the new New Zealand fire safety ads? Oh, you know the ones -- the tortured Papa wakes a bajillion times a night to check on his sleeping daughter; the tortured Papa sends his daughter to her first day of school with her facial burns...?
- Do you have an under-appreciated body part? I've mentioned before, I have beautiful feet.
Fact. And in a bitter twist of irony, I married the one person in the
world that seems to believe flat, fat feet are attractive. My slender,
flexible, high arches are lost on Haki. In fact, he teases them, every opportunity he gets.
- Am I really alone on the watermelon seeds thing? (Excepting Sherry) I haven't seen seedless varieties here. Y'see, I think watermelon is almost perfection...it's the seed-spittin'/pickin' that seriously detracts from it being the "fruit of the gods" experience I am sure it could be.
- Is it just our family, or do all pre-schoolers catch something about once a month? I thought we were made of tough stuff. We have great hygiene. We eat a lot of whole foods. My kids get a lot of sleep. I do not encourage them to dive into cesspools for a paddle. Alas.
- Have you ever wrapped a hotdog in a wholemeal tortilla? We don't have hotdogs often, but doing this makes them much easier to hold and get mouths around for little humans.
- Do you think anyone has ever had their Cause Of Death identified as "Death by Wisteria?" Because it has us surrounded. It's sending out serpentine vines as scouts. It is growing in impossible amounts overnight. I imagine us Sigourney-Weavering awake to find ourselves incased in Wisteria cocoons.
- First world problem: Ever filled a (large) paddling pool using buckets of water? Yeah, neither. A third full is about my limit. We don't have an outdoor tap or any type of hose, and the nearest water source to the deck (a flat spot for the pool) is a good 25 paces through the house. It's a labour of love, partially-filling that thing, I tell you. This is not a request for a hose. We're on rain water, and it's probably for the best that it's not easy to fill the thing. Also, the girls march back and forth with me, giggling, with their cups of water to tip in as I empty my bucket.
- What percentage of (exposed) children love Thomas the Tank Engine, do you think? Because Esky and Ivy are both huge fans of the old original episodes, the books, the audio books, and of trains generally...and there doesn't seem to be any sign of their affections waning. Just the theme music makes them happy. I had never even heard of Thomas as a kid (NZican, remember).
7 comments:
1. yes.
2. my feet are nice too, in my opinion!
3. yup. you're alone ;)
4. I know! We do wash our hands A LOT! How do the germs keep coming!?
5. No. But I might do soon.
6. Hrrm. You might be the first?
7. About a third is our limit too. And I have a hose. I think it might pop if we filled it more!
8. THAT WAS ONLY 7! NOT 8! This is going to bug me all day! Cause did you know it was 7? Were you seeing if I'd notice? Because surely you could not make such an oversight. OR did you?
That comment about "not a request for a hose" was for us. Or more specifically Chris. Noted.
However, we do have a new hose. Chris bought it a few weeks back, and we already have a hose. I'm not sure if he thought we needed a new one or what it's supposed to be for.
Has he sneakily pre-empted you?
1. all the time. tears.
2. I also love my feet, especially when I get around to rarely painting my nails down there.
7. we have to do the buckets too.
A hot dog wrapped in a tortilla (with chili, cheese, and mustard) is called an Oki Dog and it is a delicacy in certain parts of Los Angeles.
Every post you write, makes me laugh out loud! You are hilarious! I get the feet thing though. I have nice feet too and my husband has a hate relationship with ALL feet regardless of how pretty they are. I say to him all the time how wasted they are on him. I don't mind watermelon pips, cherry stones however drive me crazy.
1. yes. i got sad in cinderella the other day too when she said "but if it may help sir, i have the other slipper" BAWL.
2. my hub is obsessed with bad feet, he hates feet, but likes nice ones, make sense? he susses out women's feet, he knows who has yuck ones and who doesn't. he will be looking next time...... apparently mine measure up. I'm sure yours are splendid too.
3. ahuh.
4. Quinn has a cold at the mo, but we seem to be a couple of times a year sick type of peeps. i think all the allergies we suffer from every day makes up for it though....
5. No. But going to try it dagnammit!
6. wisteria's are for nanas. you = nana, does this also mean you have a pimped out conservatory? (pimped as in tinted).
7. I HATE DOING THIS, takes about 8 journeys for me.. gah.
8. Thomas, comes and goes. it's PEPPA all the way every day ten times a day BABY. always has been.
9. WHAT IS CLARE ON ABOUT?
We went through a year or two of being sick like that. Since then it's eased up. I think 18 months-4 years has been the snotty times for us for Theo, less often for Sadie, but around that timeframe too. I remember wondering how we'd ever get Theo in nursery because he ALWAYS had a runny nose. Then I realised all the other kids had them too and got sent to nursery anyway, so he started taking his snot with him.
And my kids are not Thomas crazy, although they like it. Theo went through a bit of a heavy Thomas stage when he was 3-5, but it's not so important now. And Sadie was only every copying Theo.
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