Mathew and Sarah decided to take Fiona and Little Boy for a walk to the sea just on the outskirts of Val’s Garden. Now my little furry babies have never seen the sea. When Bern and I took them earlier Fiona was so excited to see the water as she is an avid lover of water – until this big white wave crashed on the rocks. Shame she was most perturbed but this water that seemed to be chasing her. Little boy was no different; he acted like a girl and rushed to hide behind Fiona.
Now Matt and Sarah introduced Fiona to the sea by splashing it at her. Fiona loves to bite water so she was extremely involved in eating the splashes; so much so, she accidently bit Sarah and broke the skin. Sarah was devastated and showed Fiona the results of their Game and Fiona was suitably remorseful until the next splash.
So when they returned Sarah was very keen to show us her injuries and was ready for the Mother’s Kiss but all she got was “Well you should have known better, Fiona loves splashes.” So a few drops of Monkey’s blood (red antiseptic medicine) on her finger and it was all fixed up.
We were inundated with moths and they were rather large. Now Val is such a Girl, every time they came near her she would dart off and squirm and shriek like a real Girl, so Matt said to us “ In the History of Man, wait in the History of the Universe, I am sure no one has ever been eaten or killed by a Moth!” To which Val replied, “I don’t care they freak me out. So there I was chasing this moth and trying to rescue it and take it outside only to have it fly out my hands directly onto Val’s Face. Well I do not know who got a bigger fright, Val or the Moth eye ball to eye ball. Val flew off her chair and ran into the passage with the moth attached to her face. She did the toytoy dance with so much enthusiasm; we were tempted to join her.
We managed to rescue Val from the moth but it was too no avail a few hours later the moth made a second appearance in the lounge and Matt and Sarah quickly jumped to its rescue as Val was armed with her size 3 slop to annihilate it. Sarah gently grabbed it and pushed it out the sliding door for it to fly right back in and make a bee line for Val.
Val really needs to change her perfume; it’s an insect attractor not repellant (giggle). Sarah tried to save the moth and come between it and Val yielding her weapon of moth destruction, but the moth was too fast and she could not catch the helpless man eating moth! Sarah just told Val to shut up and let them do their job when Val asked why the Moth keeps on flying back. So Matt shooed it off Val and the moth landed on the Lamp and he gently picked it up and for his efforts Val clouted him hard on his hands with her slop (sandal) which were covering the moth.
As if it was his fault that the moth was attracted to her. Mathew giggled like a girl and asked Val if that was really necessary to kill his hands. He then did the Wizard of Oz skit…. I’m Melting…. But said Mat squealed “I’m injured, my hand is shattered……” mimicking a witch. Quite the performer when he needs to be.
This reminded us of when they were much younger and decided to put a show together for me. This act was danced and performed to the words of “Living next door to Alice.” They put this show together. Sarah 11, Matt 9 and Cait was 7.
They put all the actions together, and danced a really well choreographed dance and Mat was the doing the actions of the Limousine pulling in next door. And his steering wheel was a pot lid. I should have guessed then that my children would land up being in show business at some stage of their lives. Their faces filled with joy and so eager to just live and enjoy life to its fullest. The faces of the innocent beaming back at me.
The joy in their faces and the pride they took in their dance for me was so wonderful and to this day when the song plays I find myself doing the steps they put together. The wonderful childhood memories that we cherish and often use in our darkest times to face another day.
We then sat and reminisced about Days gone by and recent days. Matt was sharing how well he gets on with him roommate Bertus and how they like to discuss the books they read and philosophize about the content of the story and right in the middle of his sentence he said “OH MY G#$ WE ARE SO GAY!” which we laughed at as this was such an arbitory statement as he and Bertus are both heterosexual, it was just the way he was describing their book club that he realized how he sounded.
Bern and I were driving at the time and we enjoyed this light hearted banter. We had to share this incident with Val, Sarah and Granny June. So we asked him if he also drives a powder Blue Prius (eco friendly car) as in the Geoff Dunham skits.
Matt and Sarah were talking about their father and Mathew mentioned the time he dad gripped my mom in a rather inappropriate manner in the fridge (this has been mentioned in a previous Blog Newly Weds) with a full on grab of the female parts and they thought this was hilarious, so I added a story or two.
Sarah and Mathew then added that one time while staying with their Dad and his rather uptight second wife, Caitlin made a spectacular entrance. Adie and his wife were having this very posh breakfast and trying to impress the visitors, and were pompous and every so annoying according to Matt and Sarah. Cait was not even in school yet.
She walked into the lounge stood right in the middle of the room and proceeded to wee all over the floor. Sarah and Matt described it in this manner. Cait walked into the dining area. Lifted her dress and did a stance like the Hakka and just let go….. Right in front of the obnoxious society wannabees. I am sure Cait made a better impression than the poached eggs on ham they were serving with strawberries and cream!
Shame she was Fast asleep and sleep walking and had lost her direction. The shrieks or “What are you Doing!” woke her up and she was mortified.
The rest of the weekend was filled with these little trips down memory lane and the occasional sighting of a whale and his plumes of sea water in the distance. A time of healing and remembering what is important in life - Family and Friends.
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