Monthly Archives: April 2016

‘Why can’t you be like other mothers and drive a car !’

My father is visiting us and came down with a terrible cold. LBP chirpily announced, ‘I know why the word is coffin! It’s because you start to cough and then the box is shaped like a fin!’

We saw a sheep in the distance stuck on its back, legs waving in the air. It had been there for a long time and couldn’t get up. After a few dramatic attempts to turn the sheep over, we did … Continue reading →

In the morning LBP told me, ‘I couldn’t go to Candyland last night..the fruit string beanstalk was broken so I couldn’t get there.’

I have been corrected by officer LBP on grammar patrol..’You’re not supposed to say me and James, you say James and I.’

Her brother’s friend, Freddy, gave her a piggy back but she kept sliding down,’Freddy, you’re the slippiest boy I’ve ever met!’

I struggled to keep from laughing while watching the rehearsal for the upcoming tap dance show as LBP tried to toe heel her way across the floor, straining to keep the rhythm to Aretha singing ..’You’d better think, think about … Continue reading →

LBP is obsessed with Eddie the Eagle. She lined up all the shoes she could find and announced she would be jumping, like Eddie, to prepare for the Olympics.

I loved drawing LBP and her auntie while they watched a particularly intense episode of the Brady Bunch

My sister arrived with the largest bear ever whom we have christened ‘Bernie’