Wednesday, September 30, 2009

My Prospective Son-In-Law, Aged 5 1/2 (Small Talk Update)

I'm sorry if this offends those amongst you who hold "Guess How Much I love You?" as a sacred text, and, call me a stiff upper-lipped Brit, but I find it all a bit precious &...well, icky. Not the sentiments themselves, but it's just a bit OTT. However, my children loved the book. And love making up their own versions, which I admit is very sweet. And I guess that's the idea.


ANYWAY that aside, I'm glad that my 5 1/2 yr old 'prospective son-in-law' has a good sense of humour, a key ingredient in a strong relationship.

He said to my daughter yesterday,

“Guess how much I love you?

& then he said,

"THIS much” and held his thumb & forefinger together with a barely space between.

On getting the laugh he had hoped for from my ‘secure in his affections’ daughter, who obviously knew it MUST be a joke, said,

“Not really. This much” & flung his arms wide.


They have evidently both been reporting back to respective parents how much the other loves them. It’s all very matter of fact & I am glad they get on so well & she has a boy as a best friend to take the edge off the incipient girliness that's always threatening to take over her penchant for tree climbing & Star Wars games. I like the fact she's a mixture. I think it's healthy. As for the kissing though??......


Yesterday when I picked them up from school my daughter announced, unprompted, about her school day.

“I kissed T today mummy, during rest time.”

Then added; “Jon & Jamie did too.” So clearly T is not that discriminating........

"Where did you kiss him?"

"In the classroom."

"No I mean where?"

"Oh, on his head, & so did Jon but Jamie kissed him on his tummy."

"Where the teacher was in all this florid display of affection I have no idea."

My son’s response was “Wow, I WISH I’d been in kindergarten here, they always have such fun!”

I have to say though I still stand by my impression of T as a gallant, young man though, as mentioned in my last post.

The above conversation was whilst I was walking 5 children through the park to the tennis courts there for a lesson. When we arrived, my daughter needed to change her t shirt. She asked me where she was going to get changed. I said, "Just change it here, it doesn’t matter", whereupon she said


“T don’t look!”

T, ever the chivalrous young gentleman said, in amanner which Bertie Wooster would have been proud of,

“I’m blind, I can see nothing” whilst rather histrionically shielding his eyes with his hand. So that's another tick in the right box. (the chilvalry , not the Bertie Wooster impression) Not that I was expecting to be ticking any boxes quite this soon........

And she obviously believes she’s an authority on kissing now. When I went to tuck her in last night she advised me,

“Mummy whatever you do, DON’T kiss Daddy tonight, he is feeling ill & is spreading germs.”

My son, however, is far too busy making money to be genuinely jealous of the fun & frolics of a day in kindergarten.

He has been saving hard to pay me back £7.99 for a game he bought on ebay. It is arriving tomorrow with friends who are visiting, from England.

He has been feverishly polishing my husband’s shoes, cleaning the car, running errands, anything to supplement his pocket money, & consequently 'unjobbing' Albanians trying to make an honest living cleaning cars (Lavazh) & shining shoes.

However, I discovered from one of his friends yesterday that he sold some of his packed lunch in order to make the last 40 lek he needed (25p) He sold one of my chocolate brownies, his favourite. (Have to say I’m a bit peeved he sold it so cheaply, they’re worth a lot more than that I reckon) AND his packet of crisps, which was indeed a sacrifice as he only gets them once a week. (Yes I know stereotypical middle-class angst ridden mother) Wasn't sure whether to applaud or scold him for this. So I ignored it.


So what with entrepreneurism & infant affections, my children are certainly keeping me on my toes. It gives an added level of expectation to the mundane question,


"What did you do at school today?"

10 comments:

Mwa said...

I hate it when my son kisses girls - it's always a secret and there's always more going on. I've found them partially dressed under a blanket before and he wasn't even five yet. I HATE it.

Potty Mummy said...

You can send your son round here selling brownies any time if that's the going rate...

Iota said...

I think Prospective sounds rather a good chap. He could be an Alexander McCall Smith character. Incidentally, are you following his day-by-day novel published in the Telegraph (you can get it by email). It's good - especially if you listen to Andrew Sachs reading each chapter.

Rather off topic, sorry, but if you start reading the A McC Smith serial, you'll see what I mean about Prospective.

Dorset Dispatches said...

I'm putting in a direct line to your son for some chocolate brownies, to be delivered here.

Also, do they still play kiss chase at school? We played that game throughout my entire primary school. When I went to an all girls school aged 11, I felt a bit lost at break time.

Can certainly send Season 1 of House. I'm sure the Bosnian/Albanian post can manage it - at least better than the UK one could at the moment. Let me know where!

Anonymous said...

It agree, a remarkable piece

Anonymous said...

Bravo, very good idea

Anonymous said...

Very amusing opinion

Anonymous said...

It is remarkable, rather amusing idea


I know a site with answers to a theme interesting you. Hot Health

Anonymous said...

[u][b]Xrumer[/b][/u]

[b]Xrumer SEO Professionals

As Xrumer experts, we secure been using [url=http://www.xrumer-seo.com]Xrumer[/url] fitted a wish immediately conditions and grasp how to harness the enormous power of Xrumer and adapt it into a Banknotes machine.

We also purvey the cheapest prices on the market. Assorted competitors desire charge 2x or even 3x and a a pile of the term 5x what we responsibility you. But we have faith in providing great mending at a tearful affordable rate. The unbroken point of purchasing Xrumer blasts is because it is a cheaper variant to buying Xrumer. So we train to keep that thought in rebuke and afford you with the cheapest standing possible.

Not simply do we be suffering with the greatest prices but our turnaround time for your Xrumer posting is super fast. We will have your posting done before you discern it.

We also outfit you with a ample log of loaded posts on different forums. So that you can get the idea also in behalf of yourself the power of Xrumer and how we hold harnessed it to help your site.[/b]


[b]Search Engine Optimization

Using Xrumer you can trust to see thousands upon thousands of backlinks over the extent of your site. Tons of the forums that your Site you force be posted on oblige exalted PageRank. Having your link on these sites can truly mitigate found up some top-grade grade help links and really aid your Alexa Rating and Google PageRank rating via the roof.

This is making your put more and more popular. And with this developing in reputation as well as PageRank you can keep in view to lead your area absolutely rank expensive in those Search Engine Results.
Transport

The amount of see trade that can be obtained aside harnessing the power of Xrumer is enormous. You are publishing your site to tens of thousands of forums. With our higher packages you may even be publishing your site to HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of forums. Ponder 1 post on a popular forum drive inveterately get 1000 or so views, with communicate 100 of those people visiting your site. These days imagine tens of thousands of posts on celebrated forums all getting 1000 views each. Your traffic will go because of the roof.

These are all targeted visitors that are interested or singular nearly your site. Envision how innumerable sales or leads you can succeed in with this colossal number of targeted visitors. You are in fact stumbling upon a goldmine bright to be picked and profited from.

Reminisce over, Shipping is Money.
[/b]

BECOME ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT YOUR CHEAPLY DEFAME TODAY:


http://www.xrumer-seo.com

Anonymous said...

Aside to pass the prurient with two backs casinos? replacement this untested [url=http://www.realcazinoz.com]casino[/url] advisor and yon up online casino games like slots, blackjack, roulette, baccarat and more at www.realcazinoz.com .
you can also check our untrained [url=http://freecasinogames2010.webs.com]casino[/url] aim at http://freecasinogames2010.webs.com and make it in candidly to memoirs spectacularly mad !
another unsurpassed [url=http://www.ttittancasino.com]casino spiele[/url] viewpoint is www.ttittancasino.com , in lieu of of german gamblers, bloomer in freed online casino bonus.