Wednesday, October 11, 2006

AU PAIR AGAIN??

Am working from Sweden this week. Have installed myself in my sister's house in the suburb with 7-years-old twins. Unfortunaly, I don't have that many meetings, so am mostly working from home. And it's a really really good insight in family life:

  • Kids in the bed every morning
  • Constant fight to get the obnoxious boy to brush his teeth
  • Constant fight with the fairy-looking girl to have her brush her hair
  • Constant hide-and-seek game with lost items such as wellies, torches and bicycles
  • Force-feeding of aunties Spagetti Bolognese to very dissatisfied children since "it doesn't taste like mummy's!!"
  • Force-carrying of children into the car to go to the scouts when they want to watch Bollibompa
  • Force-carrying of children into the car to go FROM the scouts because it's so much more fun to play with wooden sticks and pines instead of eating auntie's dinner
  • Discussing with big boss in Brussels about new super-global-agreement with giant customer while tearing two furious beasts apart and away from covering eachother in finger-paint, and on the same time sounding calm and interested and not at all pre-occupied...
  • Getting giant muscles from carrying one kid from the TV-set into the bedroom while the other one is piggy-backing me
  • ... and getting tears in my eyes when I come to school and see two white-haired laughing angels leaving all they have at hand just to race up to me and give me the biggest hug on earth.

This must be what life is about? And they are not even my own kids?! I think I would love this life, it's so much fun and rewarding.

Very inspired! Need some detailes fixed only -- takers??

2 comments:

kitlizette said...

vda kul det lat! jag vill oxa ha barn nu! fast .. inte kanske nu nej forresten jag angrar mig.

ses snart, hoppas livelong ar kul! haahaa. kul skamt.

ME said...

tack honey poney. having contact with the family world was lovely. equally lovely to get on the flight back to london again and get on with my normal, hysterical single life. hehe