so this is from 2012
A Rainy Saturday ©
By Michael Casey
It’s another rainy April day, mum is out for the day so I’m left with the
girls. So we can catch up with our films on the Sky+ box, we watch Charlie’s
Angels together, it’s very funny with lots of tongue in cheek humour, one or
two jokes for the grown ups too. We like the kung fu too, we are a
Shanghai/Birmingham family after all.
My big daughter is mad for pencils, so she persuades me to
order a propelling pencil set, she uses it to draw with too. When you have an
artist in the family you have to have the right kind of pencil, the fact that
she has 500 pens, pencils and crayons already does not matter, she must have
the latest one. She was given 10 new pencils the other day by somebody we met
while we were sheltering from the rain, but that was not what she needed, she
always “needs” the exact thing she
wants. She is a great sketcher though.
As for her small sister, she was upstairs near her beloved
dolls house, it now has two bright plastic chimneys, red and blue, old building
blocks were added to make her dolls house more distinctive. I shout up the stairs reminding her to read
too, I ask what page she’s starting from so I can gauge if she is doing enough
reading. She does 70 pages plus in a day, she’s a very fast reader. Now that
she has mastered all her times tables I am a happy dad, the 8s were the
hardest, I reminded her I was beaten by the teacher, so I got mine right the 2nd time he
asked me, which was an incentive for her.
Piano practice was also part of the day, my big daughter can
play a little, but she and her smaller sister need to practice practice
practice. The piano will be a good
investment IF in the end they can both play, we did get a letter from my big
daughter’s new secondary school offered music lessons and instrument lessons; we
are lucky though because Betty from the choir gives them singing and music
tuition, all this means is that they are better at the piano thanks to Betty.
Perhaps I should nominate Betty for an OBE or something, along with the
lollypop lady.
The girls have both retreated upstairs so they must be
making stuff or drawing, I do know when to switch the tv off and to switch the
computer off too, a balance between fun and creative arts is a must to my way
of thinking. I don’t need Dr Spock’s book, didn’t he say he was wrong years
later anyway? I have to finish now, my
big daughter says she wants to write a story. We’ll turn into a family of
writers, now that would make all my dreams come true.
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