After reading Helen's blog today it reminded me of a funny story way back when.......it was also a moment of confusion of words!!
It was when Claire must have been about 3 years old and as with all our children she was rather strong willed and slightly unpredictable;
( Meg Prem can vouch for this; one Sunday morning she lent down towards Claires face with a big 'Good Morning' to which Claire slapped her face with no indication of her intention at all - l was in shock and burst into tears - Meg was really sweet and put her excellent councelling skills to good practise!! ) Anyway back to the story about a month after this incident l was outside washing the family car and had strapped Claire in her car seat with a few simple toys to entertain herself normally this was fine if l was quick. This particular day l was half way round the car when an elderly gentleman walked past, l said 'Morning' which encouraged him to stop and have a chat. Well we chatted and chatted and l began to noticed Claire getting rather irritated and decided that l best wrap this conversation up and get done as soon as poss. Well the man just kept chatting and chatting until l got to a point where l could see Claire really starting to loose the plot and l have to say had been rather patient in the circumstances as she was full of cold and couldn't stand having a runny nose. She kept glarring at me with a big candle, kicking her feet l'm sure your getting the picture, at this l interuppted the man and said ' look l'm really sorry but l'll have to go my little girl is getting really cross ' with that the man said 'why' so l said 'oh she wants a tissue' Well with that the man said 'oh lovely, and rather briskly headed towards the car. I thought whats he doing - with that he swung the car door open and was leaning in thecar whilst saying 'course she can kiss me' l wondered what on earth he was talking about and you can imagine what l thought was coming next. Fortunately there was no slap and it turned out that he thought l had said she wants to kiss you not she wants a tissue !!