28 February 2014

"Fiddlesticks" & politics

You dropped something the other day and said, "oh fiddlesticks!" It sounded strange coming out of the mouth of my little three year old girl. I asked you where you heard that word. You giggled and said, "I just made it up Mummy." I'm not sure that you did but I don't need to dispute it.

Now it's Sunday and I am reading the papers in my favourite room listening to you playing with your Sylvanian Families in the lounge and doing all of their voices. It's a calming place for me. Although the news is not very calm. Let's hope the political storm brewing in Ukraine and Russia blows away as quickly as it arose. My peaceful Sunday is so at odds with what I am reading about and I wonder how you ever go from pushing a toy platypus around in the basket of your Sylvanian badger's bicycle to ordering submarines and battleships to the brink of war. 
So, as I caught up with the grave and escalating situation in Crimea, you interrupted to ask if I could help you to "put this police outfit on my baby dormouse please mummy?" 
A welcome distraction from the world's political unrest. 

We then got ready to go out. "Our feet are not the same size Mummy", you exclaimed. I replied, "no sweetie, yours are three and mine are thirty seven. You responded with, "one day when I am bigger like you, my feet will be thirty seven too. Will they Mummy?" 
"Yes baby, they will"

We had a lovely lunch with Wilbur, Monty and their gorgeous mummies. You loved being the biggest and therefore "in charge" and you also loved that the babies mummies did, indeed, love your red tights as you'd hoped they would when we chose them this morning. 
I hope you three can grow up in safe and peaceful times. Although I think we need to be realistic about the world and keep a balanced viewpoint. We must learn from our history and pay attention to others' histories. History will shape our future.

"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war." ~ Winston Churchill

11 comments:

  1. Lovely photos!! I love "oh fiddlesticks" x

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  2. Oh fiddlesticks, that's so cute! And I adore your blog and the way you write these letters. So lovely. I bet she will treasure them. x

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  3. Oh fiddlesticks! How cute! Love the concept of your blog too!

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  4. Thank you Chantelle. I just read your blog and followed you too. It's just lovely. And I am a touch jealous at your location too. As I would imagine everyone in the cold old UK is!

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  5. Thanks Katie :) I think we'll both treasure the letters because memories fade so fast that I am pleased I am capturing them here.

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  6. Thanks Carin. I am glad you enjoyed reading it. Follow if you'd like to know when I post a new letter ;) I love writing for myself and it's like a cherry on top when someone else likes it too.

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  7. What a reflective and beautifully written post

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  8. Thank you Steph. What a nice thing to say. Made me happy.

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  9. What a beautiful post. I think my heart melted a little at the doormouse. #MMWBH

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  10. Beautifully written. I can't help but tear up, imagining little Molly reading your words some day. What a gift you're giving her.

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  11. Beautiful post. Gorgeous photos and 'Fiddlesticks' is very cute :) #MMWBH

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