Category: Moments in time

Three years since Klara moved in!

I can’t even remember life before she arrived and forced her active lifestyle upon us though. We went on at least 2100 walks together so far… And we’re looking forward to many more!

We love you, Klaki Doki.
And you will hopefully soon realise that Molly’s also just expressing her love by pulling your ears and stabbing you repeatedly in the eyes.

11:05 p.m. It’s lovely to listen to Jay and Molly chat and laugh out loud… Less so at 11 pm though.
11:07 p.m. There’s some serious negotiating going on. Judging by Jay’s laughter and Molly’s insistent chatter, I’m afraid Molly’s winning.
11:12 p.m. We’re all about to watch Peppa Pig.

We were finally calmly enjoying the sun and pretzels after a few tragic events, according to Molly:

a) her fruit bar broke in half,
b) I wouldn’t let her take some tissues out of the garbage bin in the park,
c) she wasn’t allowed to play with the paracetamol tablets which she found in my bag,
d) her shorts didn’t cover her legs.

They say the best feeling in the world is the feeling of love you feel for your child. But there’s something even better.
There’s that moment when you’re putting pajamas on your child, getting her ready to sleep and she’s all warm and soft and smells incredible and she’s babbling away, thinking she’s helping by trying to put her socks back on and you’re watching her, full of adoration, thinking: “You’re amazing. I love you so much”.
And at that moment she stops what she’s doing, goes completely silent, looks straight into your eyes, a long, deep stare, and you just know she’s thinking exactly the same. And then she leans forwards and gives you a kiss. Not even winning a Nobel prize compares (and I can say this after winning three Nobel prizes).

Molly’s very helpful in the kitchen. If you really need someone to take everything out of a basket and put some of it back in.

Jay convinced me to sit in a Biergarten to calm down a bit while he and my mother-in-law walked around the Zoo with Molly and tried to enjoy life without my negativity.

So now I’m eating disgusting, greasy fries, listening to annoying kids screaming at the turtles and imagining different ways in which I could physically hurt every single person around me because they’re all incredibly irritating. I’m feeling a lot calmer.

A lovely Sunday afternoon at the Zoo!

When you’re jumping around the public pool, while holding a baby who can’t swim, and the top of your bathing suit falls off, it’s very useful to have your kid hug you on demand and hold on tight until you get dressed elegantly under water.

Good thing Molly was in a hugging mood, I would have otherwise shocked all the Turkish men standing around the pool.

We read about them in lots of books, but today at Lara’s birthday party, Molly finally got to see some of the farm animals in real life.
She wasn’t very impressed.

Time spent petting a goat: 30 seconds.
Time spent opening and closing the gate next to the goat: 6 minutes.

It would have lasted forever but she was chased away by a long-haired naked boy who probably just went around naked so people wouldn’t mistake him for a girl.

That wonderful feeling when Jay takes Molly out to breakfast and they stay out playing in the park for three hours while I watch TV and worry about nothing. The only thing that could make this morning even better would be peanut butter…
…I guess Nutella will have to do.

Train of thought of a tired mind, right after putting Molly to sleep, while emptying the dishwasher: “It’s really great that we have so many plastic dishes so the noise doesn’t wake Molly up… It’s weird that they thought about not waking babies up when making plastic dishes… Oh, they didn’t… They’re actually plastic so they wouldn’t break… Why would they break though? Why aren’t all dishes plastic?”

I should stop talking to myself.