Oh Sandy

I’m in the parent stage of life which means I no longer do interesting and exciting things, I just watch my children doing them. Today I watched them run around a beach for three hours non-stop. Then we went for lunch and when we got home, I lay quietly on the couch for a while because I was tuckered out from all that… watching other people doing stuff. In my defence, I wasn’t completely inactive. As well as my usual role of personal photographer and videographer, sometimes I wandered over and said “watch out for that jellyfish on the sand” or “stop pushing your sister over, yes, I know she’s a zombie but just the same stop” or even “it’s raining quite a lot now, maybe we could leave? Oh, okay. Five more minutes then. I’ll just shelter under this tree”.

The good part was that they were all exhausted so we all lay on the couch together and talked about how tired we were and how many jellyfish we’d seen. Also one child wearily handed me all the shells he’d collected and said, “Can you wash these, put them in a container and bring them to me?” (NB: I did none of these things) and I was very pleased because it was his first real attempt at delegation and that’s going to come in handy if he ever wants to be a middle manager. Something to look forward to there.

It was a good day. Sandy, but good.