Toddler
Go shout it on the mountain
It’s been a good day. The kind of day that, as an expat, helps to justify your choices. The choices that in your darker moments you agonise over, like: What the hell am I doing here away from so many of the people that I love and who love me? I think that it is … [Read more…]
The tyranny of the vocabulary
As much as it is a joy witnessing your child learning to speak, and it is a joy, it comes at a price. The joy, it seems, is not entirely unmitigated. Joy and yikes! come in almost equal measure in fact. In particular there has been much joy at the occasional use of ‘please’ and ‘yanks’ … [Read more…]
Lo siento muchisimo
I’m sorry. Sorry. For myself and now for my daughter. Yikes. If ever there was a word to come out of my mouth too easily, and too often, it is the word sorry. I suspect that I often say sorry when what I really want is for someone to say it to me. Like, erm, … [Read more…]