so very tired but happy
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Raising children is a strange and ironic pastime. When Andrew and Kathy left, Claire and I were sitting in darkness in Claire’s room, having a serious conversation about speaking respectfully to your elders, being kind to babies and not eating too much sugar.
Five minutes later she got over being denied a cookie when I offered her… a chopped up carrot. She returned a fiercely disputed scarf and now we’re on the sofa, crunching carrots. As I blog she is working on her maths book.
The other day we passed St Luke’s. Claire said: “That’s the hospital where Julia was born!”
“Yes,” I said. “That was one of the happiest days of my life.”
“That was one of the happiest days of MY life,” said Claire.
