Whenever the weather is nice and I have to do the School run, although I go past Rudy’s playschool before home, I try to park the car at home after work, dash back to playschool (7 minute walk), then walk round to get Bradley from School, another 10 minute walk from playschool.
As Bradley’s a bit obsessed with the Wii at the moment I jumped at the chance to go to the rec on his suggestion for the last couple of warm sunny days (anything to beat square eyes!). We spent an hour there and it was great. The boys burning off energy, me catching up with the other mums and everyone just enjoying the sunshine and fresh air.
On our way home Rudy was in the pushchair and Bradley was cadging ‘a lift’ as we call it, standing on the back of the pushchair frame. Bradley suddenly announced ‘wait a minute Mummy, I have a present for you’. What could it be!? I was already thrilled he had thought about me at School, he dug deep into his trouser pocket…
A stone.
I was still touched that he’d thought of me when he had found it! Then he announced he had another present for Daddy, into the trouser pocket again… and produced the middle of a flower head, then still in the flow of generosity, dismounted the pushchair, wandered onto someones drive before I had time to protest, and plucked a handful of beautiful purple flowers saying ‘these are also for you Mummy’. Love them, you can trespass anytime honey.