how our children reflect our lives and priorities, especially in these early years when they still have some respect for their parents. Today Tobes and I walked down to Cafe Rouge for lunch and as we were leaving Toby pointed to a parking space right in front of the restaurant and said 'That's a great space for you, Mommy'. Hmmm, I guess that comes from not having off-street parking at the house and spending the better part of many afternoons circling the block looking for a space.
I remember once when Tobes was about 18 months old and we were out having lunch, the waiter brought the bill and Toby picked up his Crayola to sign it. You would think I might cut back on our lunches out after that, wouldn't you?
I think it's even worse when you hear your own words spoken back to you. Yesterday was a tough day, the grocery order was over two hours late, Tobes was cranky as hell after all the sugar the day before and potty training is not going so smoothly. I had just managed to wrestle Tobes down on the floor to change his nappy when the doorbell rang, the grocery order had finally arrived. I admit that an expletive did pass my lips as I got up to answer the door. I was in a foul mood. When I came back to Tobes he had on his 'telling off' face and said very matter-of-factly while shaking his head 'Naughty Mommy said a bad word. We don't say 'f**k', we say 'crikey'.' Well, what can you say to that. He has a point.
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katherine that is one you HAVE to write down for you both to laugh at when he's an adult. oh my gosh! hey - at least he knows you say crikey and not the F bomb, though! mc would probably have just picked up the F word and ran with it....
who do you order your groceries from? i hope you got your delivery fee refunded for it being two hours late? we're tesco.com people, ourselves...
We introduced crikey after hearing Tobes use the F word - with perfect intonation, I might add! That was another time when we had a very surreal conversation with me saying 'Some words aren't very nice and we shouldn't say them' and Toby pointing out that 'Me say f**k cause me angry'. Oh dear.
We use Tesco too and I did get the delivery fee back but it's not much compensation. They're late almost every time now. I'd switch to Ocado if they weren't so expensive.
ocado is too expensive... weird about tesco always being late! i'm sure you have - but have you told customer service that they're always tardy and you are thinking of giving your business to ocado? i bet that'd make them on time... maybe.
we put a note on ours that we're home before our delivery slot - so most times we get ours early, thank goodness. poor you!
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