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I’m sorry. What did you just say?

My Way Or The Mae Way.

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We are rolling about on the bed; making letters with pillows. After a successful ‘T’ another pillow is fetched to attempt an ‘M’.

We are working on tidying up one unholy mess before we move on to make another unholy mess.

Alice: ‘C’mon, Mae. Let’s put this pillow back in your room.’

Mabel: ‘No! Mae-Mae can’t do it!”

Alice: ‘And why not?’

Mabel: ‘I can’t! …Because I don’t want to!’

 

 

Christmas Questions #2

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Theo: ‘The Christmas Man loves snow! When will the snow come, Mama?’

Alice: ‘Well, darling, we live in the Southern Hemisphere, down here. So it is Summer for us at Christmas time.’

I gesture wildly at the Globe.

Theo: ‘But…The Christman Man needs snow to fly!’

Alice: ‘He does?’

Theo: ‘Yes! I need snow for Christmas!’

 

Oh, good. I’ll just add that to the list of things you won’t be getting for Christmas.

Thanks Giving.

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Mabel: ‘MAMA! I AM A RAINBOW! KISS MY FINGERS!’

And I do, of course. One should never say no to a Rainbow.

And then…

Mabel: ‘MAMA! I AM CLAPPING THE KISSES!’

Sometimes, the truth (no one will tell you) is that your kids will make your heart swell; like the ocean; like an orchestra, and in such a way that it fills up your whole body and your whole day and your whole life. And all the things that you have thought you were not doing well enough stop calling to you, because right now, fallen in your lap, is someone who makes you see just how well you are doing.