Mountain Child

When I can't find something I'm looking for, Sara says

"Don't worry mum.  I'll get it for you next time I go shopping. OK mum?"

When I'm lamenting the fact that something is broken, Sara says 

"Don't worry mum, I'll fix it for you later.  OK mum?"

When I tell her I'm not feeling well, Sara says

"Don't worry mum. I'll make you feel better." She pretends she has a fairy wand, waves it about and says "Turn mummy all better!" Then she asks "OK mum, OK?"

I have a sore throat and a headache.  It appears I have caught a cold....

Sara is fine at this stage.  Hopefully, she'll stay that way.

It has been raining since early this morning.  The garden certainly needs it after two days of extreme heat.

Sara came home with a little mounted canvas that she has painted at Andrea's today. When she came home, she asked for some glue. She said she wanted to stick her picture. I gave it to her without a second thought. A little later, she came to me all upset. She said she couldn't put the picture! She showed me her mounted picture, the back of it was completely covered in glue. She tried to hang it up on the wall, but it didn't stay up!

It's warm and windy here today.
Sara is at preschool and it is too hot for me to be out there gardening.

I made Sara an omlette last night.

I took the skin off a zuccini and finely diced it and smuggled only a small portion into the omlette. I also put some of my home made tomato sauce on it which also had pureed vegetables in it. Sara ate the melted cheese inside of the omlette, but did not touch the rest.

I asked why she didn't eat her omlette.

"Because it wasn't tasty."

When Richard came home, he asked her why she didn't eat her omlette.

"Because I didn't like the tomato sauce. Don't put the tomato sauce on the omlette mummy. And don't put any green stuff either."

Richard, naturally was sympathetic to her plight of having to deal with vegetable matters in her omlette. But I only used the white inside of the zuccini. How did she know that it was the green stuff?

It has been hot and humid since yesterday.
We went to Leura Markets and I ran into my old friend Isa who had a stall there, then to a bunch of Japanese women I know from the Japanese playgroup who had a stall together.

This morning, we went to Steiner playgroup where it was hot inside and out. Then we went to visit Lisette and the girls where it was cool as they have an airconditioner.

If today's weather is an indication of how it is going to be this coming summer, I really want an aircon in our bedroom too...

It was Halloween yesterday, as we discovered when the kids from the neighbourhood turned up demanding sweets. Sara borrowed a costume from Tyller and they went around a few houses with Margaret in the evening. Judging from the way Sara was behaving last night, she had far too many brightly coloured sweets.

The boy next door did a few things in our garden yesterday and Richard is livid. He is not allowed back for a while....