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Unremarkable?

Posted on September 27, 2007November 28, 2009 by BritMumInNZ

Today was a day like millions of other stay-at-home parents around the world, but does that make it any less remarkable?

Children wake up every morning with driven curiosity and grasp at every opportunity to learn and explore. As a parent I feel a tremendous responsibility to ensure the doors are wide open in every direction. Naturally I have the occasional moment when I put on the television (but usually ensure it’s something educational) in desperation, but I do this as a last resort. It’s great to see children that aren’t dependent on television use their imaginations to create a whole world within their own home.

Yesterday Charlotte created bags from paper and tape and said, ‘Let’s go shopping Mummy!’. We walked around the house deciding what to ‘buy’. She then said, ‘I’m going to get ready for a big journey now,’ and went away to the trampoline, enroute to England, with an assortment of objects.

She makes kites out of paper and string, rockets from home-made play-dough, mummifies her teddy bears in lego pyramids and happily whiles away time running around the house on various projects. Whilst doing all this she generally sings and hums happy tunes and talks away to herself. I love to hear her cycling round the house and laughing to herself or with the cats.

To see the delight in my children’s faces at the beauty of a Monarch butterfly in the garden a new bulb emerging from the earth is totally remarkable. Every day I thank the heavens for being blessed as a parent and the joys it brings.

We gain so much pleasure from the little things in life. A trip to the supermarket…

Play at a cafe afterwards…

And at home making masks…

And cakes (yummy!)…

What a beautiful day. Was it unremarkable? To the world’s media? Yes. To Chez Lee? On the contrary, every day is remarkable.

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