Today the Ottawa library van comes to our suburbs. It’s a day of excitement and the unspoken expectations when we go to the huge van and think about the unexpected treasures that reveal themselves as we comb through the oddly slanted book shelves.
All too often I get side tracked before we leave by wanting to check the email or I get a phone call or some such other reason and Bronwen will skitter around the house in a mad rush to get things organised for me so that we can leave already!
Today I was on the phone to Matthew and I was checking out some incredibly edifying website like facebook when Bronwen went to organise the shoes we were to wear. Call ended and updates almost fully read, I spun the office chair around to slip my feet into the shoes neatly lined up right where my feet would spin to with my head still turned away.
I did a double take as suddenly I felt like I had been transported to Lilliput – my huge feet wouldn’t fit into the shoes set out for me. What on earth….? Until I looked down at the floor when Bronwen’s giggles became all the more audible and the realisation that Bronwen had my shoes on and had put her shoes on the floor for me to put on.
So what’s a Mummah to do? Well she shoves her oversized toes in as far as she can get them (which isn’t really too far at all) and starts to totter off to the hallway in a feeble attempt to chase her little girl who is laughing hysterically at this point at her own cleverness through the house to gain as reward a huge hug and kiss.
And she orders a book on Gulliver’s Travels from the Library which should be here next week.
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