{"id":251,"date":"2008-09-10T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T10:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2010-05-08T21:55:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:55:48","slug":"make-a-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/10\/make-a-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a wish…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Word of advice, Never have children, they have the ability to break your heart in a million different ways and none of them hurt as much as when your child is hurting, and you can’t do anything to stop it.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was a rough day.<\/p>\n

To end it I took TBK to my parents he needed cheering up. Nannies have special magic powers don’t you know, they make everything less raw, a little brighter and the hurt fuzzier around the edges, easier to swallow – well Jordan’s Nan does, she’s special.<\/p>\n

So we went had a cup of tea, had a few cuddles, rolled around the floor with the psycho dog and the even more psychotic “Little Big Uncle” John (and instructed Grandad on the ins and outs of facebook (TBK knew more than he did) and it worked, by the time we left TBK was beginning to act more like his normal self.<\/p>\n

On the short walk home we were kicking stones along the pavement and discussing the stars, TBK was pointing out the two brightest ones in the sky and explaining to me that the one was my Dad and the other was his Great Grandad looking down on us when we both saw a shooting star.<\/p>\n

“WOAH Mom, did you see that!?! Quick make a wish we saw the same star so we can share it …. Have you made it?”<\/p>\n

I said I had, and had he? To which he replied<\/p>\n

“Yes I wished that there were these scientists who wanted to do an experiment on me yeah and I said yes but then when they came to do it it was a different experiment than the one they said they were going to do so I said no but then they did it anyway they slipped something into my hot chocolate which I drank and it made me into stitch like from lilo and stitch but still human and it was AWESOME!”<\/p>\n

*Deep Breathe*<\/p>\n

“What did you wish for?”<\/p>\n

“I wished that you’d always be happy” he looked at me sideways and I caught THAT<\/em> glint in his eye – that look that every parent knows to be suspicious of,<\/p>\n

“You know what WOULD make me happy, Mom…. Still giving me THAT<\/em> look….<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

….presents!!”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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