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Posted by Mary

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V’s class hosted the weekly assembly in the lead-up to Mother’s Day this year. He was, as always, embarrassingly touched that I agreed to go to a school thing for him.

It was actually something of a setup. They held up best Mum awards they’d made and sang a humourous song about how mothers love them despite their naughtiness, and that far they were in on the joke:

The part they thought was serious, but wasn’t, was the part where they’d all written a descriptive essay about their mothers in the style of documenting animal behaviour, which several of them earnestly read out to an an audience of hundreds while their mothers cried with laughter in the back of the hall.

I don’t generally like holding children’s earnestness against them as a gag, especially not for Mother’s Day. But V inadvertently got me back, because his description of me is pretty telling. Or damning. Your call.

Mary

My Mum Information Report

Type: A type of human being that is female She is loving friendly kind nice and caring A mum is someone who has at least one

Appearance: my mum lives in a house on a street She can usually be found in the front room on the computer

Diet: My mum lovier chikin cake and ice-crim wich is all heathy food

Special Features: My mum likes to go to the Pub with Dad at night

Behaviours: when mum is not bisy She is usually in her bed

Things mum does not like: mum gets cranky when i be norty and intrupt her

Interesting Fact: that she in the best

I’ve put it up on the wall beside me at work.

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Posted by Mary

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In a fit of inspiration on a long car trip a few months ago I decided to subscribe to Audible, so we could play the Harry Potter audio books to V. Which has proven to be quite an undertaking of course; we’re halfway through book three now, I believe the entire recording lasts for almost a week. We’ve also already had to start taking breaks from it at V’s request because he was having nightmares, and this isn’t even the point in the series where the characters are dropping at a regular rate.

But he’s largely enjoying it.

Some moments of V and Harry Potter:

1. He is alive to the mystery elements of the books. He is constantly disappointed to remember that Andrew and I have read them, and therefore cannot participate in lively guessing about what might happen next. The latest variant of this request is to cast our minds back to when we hadn’t read them, and tell him what we thought the solution to the mystery was in more innocent times.

2. V decided that he would go to Book Week dressed as Harry, on the grounds that they have a lot in common. They both wear glasses (V was found to be long-sighted a few months ago) and they “both have an enemy.” Harry’s is a dark and powerful wizard, and a rich bully. V’s is J— in his class.

3. At some point I wondered out loud whether V was a Gryffindor. Andrew gave me a disgusted look and reported that V had taken to jumping up and down on the couch cheering when Gryffindor had successes in their Quidditch matches. Yes, Andrew said, he’s a Gryffindor.

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Posted by Mary

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V, who adores families, neighbours, best friends, and all other forms of human connection, of course loves Mother’s Day and similar. Hence, this chalk message in May:

♥ mum you are the best love vins

The location he chose is pretty sheltered, and the message remains three months and change later.

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