When she says that something is ugly
Like a fish or a person
I tell her that they probably think she's ugly too
She can hardly bear it.

It amuses me to mess with her head.

Lilliputs

Since I was around a bunch of little girls this weekend.

I also

Got a beany baby cow for Megan.
And by the time I send it, she might even be old enough to play with it!

My weekend: The little girl

-We established that she was my most excellent fan.
-Painted pictures.
-Untaught her to say Shit and taught her to say Oh Dear! instead.
-Tried teaching her to say, 'Barbie sucks'. Not too much progress. Yet.
-Took a couple of pictures.

Do you remember? :)

I broke your red bubble bath fish.
It was an accident. I promise. It really was.
I only stood on it.
I didn't expect it to break.

And then. You broke my blue whale.
It was intentional. Wasn't it?!

You horrible, horrible girl.


:)

I looked at the photograph and said, 'The colour of your skin is different from his. It's..orange and his looks white'.
'Bronze!', she said and gave me a dirty look.
'Yeah, bronze', I laughed.
But I was still secretly thinking orange in my head.

:-)

I've only ever been attached to two 'things'.
The first was a blue carabiner.
The second is a thin silver chain that I wear around my waist.

She would wistfully say that she wished she was taller.
Like the Russian women, so tall and slim and beautiful.

I,in turn would say to her
It's better to be like us.
Women were meant to be shorter.

She understands now
When she's around her boyfriend.
She's so much smaller than he is.

We're so much easier to hold.

It wasn't really something new.
Just something forgotten.
And then remembered.

Sadia

She said she had a barbie doll and that it was inside the trunk. She never took it out.
She offered me Marie biscuits. I refused. I said I didn't like them at all.
She said that she was my best friend.

I didn't know any better then.
I know now.

I hope she's alright.

You asked how things were going

They're not.
And I never expected to cry.

My bad.

Are we all really that full of ourselves?

This was one of those mornings
Where all my body wanted to do
Was curl up in a patch of sunlight and sleep.


Still does.
Sigh.

He held me
Because I was cold.
I let him.
Because I was.

One Thousand Steps

I think I just walked.

I think I'm good

She and you.
You were the same.
You and me.
We're different.
Good for you.

Bonus

Laura was talking to Dadda once and he said,
'When Joanne was born we got a car
And when Laura was born we got a house.'
[smiles all around]
'What about Kiran?' she piped.
Then he said, 'By the time Kiran was born we already had everything we needed.
She was bonus'.

Bonus.
:-)

Let the full weight of who you are fall on people and let them deal with it.
-Emmanuel Rasquinah

Unintended.