Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Mommy!!! She is stealing my foot!!


Bizarre comment.

Perfect situation. For a Mommy that is.

Picture the scene: Johannesburg, 2008.

Mommy (relaxed after an unprecedented hot bath with NO - and I mean absolutely NO disturbance for a change) reclining gracefully on her bed like a beached whale.

Princess 1 (who has decided that she wants to be a beautician (after becoming Miss SA) (yeah- go figure - the child is a kugel of note)) is massaging the right foot.


Princess 2 also wants in on the action and is massaging the left foot.

Mommy is making the appropriate sounds of relaxation and gratitude. Combined with funny faces. (You have to make rolled-up eyes and a skew smile if you are demonstrating to a 5-year old in what state of extreme bliss you are). (The brain works in pictures, you see).

Princess 2 then decides the older sibling's foot is getting more attention that hers. Prompt swop. Needless to say, the reaction is IMMEDIATE.

"Mommy!! She is stealing my foot!!"

Ahhh! The bliss, the BLISS!!!!

"Don't worry, sweetie - there are still lots of me left!!"