Pancake Tuesday Musings

Bless me Father for I have sinned. I used Betty Crocker's powdered pancake mix and passed it off as homemade. Now Rory, whose homework it was to make pancakes, (Dear God, this looks worse written down), thinks all it involves is a drop of milk and shaking the container until all the lumps are out. In my defense, I usually do make them from scratch, but Betty was 'on special' and I bought her just in casey, so now it's ten Hail Mary's and a Glory Be for me. Oh well, onwards and upwards...

On another note, I just love the honesty of children- the guarded filtering of adults isn't yet there- they aren't concerned what their teacher might think, or that they may come across to their peers in a negative light. As an example, here's a peek at Jude's homework-he had to make sentences from his weekly spellings - all 'tr' words. For the record, Jude's writing tends to be decidedly economical and he would never dream of using ten words when five will do-it must be a boy thing. But I had to laugh today,(inside obviously!), at his first two sentences. The lack of trifle love, followed up by the shameless acknowledgement of a fiercely competitive streak. To him, utterly true, completely acceptable and most important of all, perfectly succinct.

Finally, on the off, off chance you might be interested, I think we've cracked our toilet problem here(boom boom!) It looks like we've been able to track down the last champagne toilet in the North of Ireland. A company that specializes in discontinued bathroom lines is on the job. What a relief....For future reference- write this down- they also resurrect avocado, sun king, whisper grey, whisper pink, whisper peach, primrose, Bali brown and wild sage. Is champagne really in there with those losers? I honestly don't know whether to laugh or cry!