Saturday, December 11, 2010

Blonde and Old...

This morning Darrell and I decided to hit the Xmas shopping - leaving it until just before we depart for SA, in time honoured fashion. Having made our list this morning, we decided that we needed to head over to the bigger malls in Dubai so we packed the kids in the car and off we went. On the way there we entertained the kids by practicing our times tables - we're all getting really good at them now - and once there we dragged them around from shop to shop as we ticked off our list. Then we took them to an Italian restuarant for lunch because we couldn't face their choice of Burger King, packed them back into the car and listened to them arguing the whole way back.
Halfway through this labour intensive day we realised what we'd done. We're an expat family with a full time maid. We could have easily left the kids with Daisy for the day. She would have been thrilled. The kids would have been much happier than at the mall. And Darrell and I could have had a lovely day out together.
I can't believe that it didn't even cross our minds until it was way too late!
Blonde and old, that's our excuse....

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