AFTER SCHOOL THIS AFTERNOON

"Don't forget about our play this afternoon", were his last words this morning as he twisted the straps of his school bag around his shoulders and then he turned on his heel and walked off towards the school gates. Sometimes I get kisses and sometimes I don't. Today was one of those days where I didn't get one. We we spent the last five minutes of the car ride arguing over who forgot to bring his school hat.

The afternoon spent was a lovely contrast to our time this morning. We were both excited to catch up with friends at the park and to have a play. Pat got to get some sand in between his toes and we both looked for the whales which had been sighted playing close to the shore earlier in the day. We saw lots of kids splashing around, people learning to surf and men spear fishing but no whales. In the park the kids played and we chatted and laughed until it started to become dark and the kids let us know that they had had enough when they started chanting for hot chips for dinner.

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SHHHH, I LOVE YOU

He is my baby and here he is holding my other baby. He loves cuddling her and it's the first thing that he does after waking up in the morning and the first thing that he does when he arrives home from school in the afternoon. Usually she is just as happy to see him, her little mouth chattering away with all sorts of baby goo-goo-gaa-gaa's and bambi eyed smiles, but today she was tired and wanting nothing more but for someone to gently rock her to sleep. He tried and tried and was very patient with her. He told me to let her cry and that it was ok. As her cries got louder and more deliberate and as she started to slide down from his bear hug, I had to intervene. I cradled her up, with one arm branching across her bottom and the other arm gently folded across her back and patting her shoulders and we both watched her drift off to sleep.

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WEEKDAY AFTERNOONS

Our home was still and dozing in the afternoon sun until the keys shake open the front doors. His bag is thumped onto the floor, he peels off his school shoes and socks and leaves them trickling at his bedroom door, homework is slammed onto the dining table and his lunchbox slapped onto the kitchen bench. He curls himself up into the elbow of our lounge and brings Rocco up close so that he can watch him play on the ipad. Through the afternoon sunbeams I watch the speckles of dust and fluff float up and then settle around him as he comfy's himself back into the peaceful disposition of home.

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