all. finished.
This is the kids’ art gallery that started happening soon after we moved into this house. Asha sticks things up and takes things down and Milla likes to pull people over and show them her pieces. We mean to paint the bricks one day, but til then the gallery cheers it up.
Life with an almost two-year-old and a five-year-old is intense. It wasn’t until they went for a sleep-over at my parents’ last weekend that I realised how thick the silence in house was without them. They are noisy. And the negotiations with Milla over every single thing would test the patience of the UN. Plus school life is busy. There are notes to sign, readers to track, lunches to be made, drink bottles to be found, school dresses to be washed, hair-dos to be done. Every day! You develop tactics to escape for a few minutes – hanging out a load of washing can take quite some time … And how long has Ben been feeding the chooks for?! Living is a blur.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:19 am
btw; asha, our 5 year old, took the photo of our art wall. :) if only I knew how long I’d been feeding the chooks for …
November 17th, 2009 at 11:36 am
oh indeed! i have 3 1/2 and 3 months and the silence is obliterated mostly! W loves to talk - chat chat chat all the time!
i must say that the early days of breast feeding in silence made me realise the ear damage i have from ‘my youth’ - oh dear - lucky the silence isn’t around too much to remind me of it! Great post.