Meggie always wants to be "doin' stuff".
Today the requests were baking, gardening and swimming.
Baring in mind that we had to go to Family Mass this morning, I had a weeks food shop to do, and Thomas's soccer club had a fun day organised for this afternoon, I did warn her that it would not be possible to do everything! Something had to give!!
So the swimming was knocked off the agenda! Baking and gardening remained, and as I could find no acceptable excuses, and the fun day turned out only to be fun for boys....baking (with "fake" sugar so Daddy can eat it) and gardening (blooming ant bites are sore!!!) it was.
And a very enjoyable afternoon it was too (not counting the ant bites! I'm not kidding! They are really sore! Good tip though...I put lemon juice on them straight away so they didn't sting for too long, and I'm hoping they don't come up like midge bites tomorrow!!).
Today I am grateful for stuff to do with my girl. I don't always feel like doing whatever stuff she has in mind, but it always seems to be worth it in the end!
Gratefully yours.
xx
Great that they don't just want to sit in front of tv/computer games like such a lot of kids! (Or maybe they're trained to do that by parents who can't be bothered 'doing stuff'!)
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