‘hey sweetie, whatcha doin’ sitting out here all alone?’



‘hmmm just thinking’
‘what are you thinking about?’
‘that man that was in our house, why was that police lady fighting with him?’

This is when parenting gets tough. Trying to explain things like this to an innocent child.
What could I say to make her feel safe? How could I promise her that man wouldn’t come back when I didn’t know myself? I knew she was worried….i saw her holding her teddy bear in her room this morning and she’s never carried it around before.



All I could tell her was he was a naughty man who came in here to steal our things because he didn’t have any money and that’s a bad thing to do but that he wasn’t here to hurt her and we would never let anything happen to her.
She seemed happy with that but still…
Where’s a parenting instruction manual when you need one!



I let Keira help me bake some cookies to take her mind off things while we waited for Dave to come home. We had just finished eating when the phone rang.
It was the school calling to tell me Keira lost a grade today due to having a day off!
What? A kid can’t have a day off school? What sort of school is this?

I pushed it out of my mind and sat back down at the table, after all, there didn’t seem like there was anything I could do about it.
‘Are you still worried about anything?’ I asked Keira.
‘Nah’ she said. ‘Well maybe just this much’



‘Hey I think I can hear Daddy’s car pool, let’s go and greet him huh?’
‘I’m sure he’d love a big hug from his favourite little girl’



‘Hi hon, how was work?’
‘Fantastic, I got promoted!’
‘On your first day?’
‘yep, pretty cool hey, And I got a bonus of $1500….so how’s my little girl?’
‘Daddy, I want to go fishing, can you make a pond in the backyard’
‘A pond, gee I dunno…how much do ya love me?’
‘All the way to the moon and stars and back around the world twice’
‘Twice! Well if it’s that much I suppose I Have to make one then’