It is Father's Day today, but it is also International Yoga Day so I am going to a yoga and meditation session. I have therefore decided to make a compromise. I will only go for an hour or so and won't stay for the whole thing. I am not sure I am up to the whole thing anyway as it involves a silent retreat and, despite my growing interest in yoga and meditation. I don't know how to just 'be'.
The girls make John a lemon and poppy seed cake with Swedish curdled cream cheese icing. Actually, there is nothing Swedish about it: Ellie didn't realise that lemon juice would curdle the cream cheese icing.
I am often sad when I think that the girls are growing up too fast. I must admit that I found the early years something of a challenge. At times, I felt I was drowning in their dependency on me. If I went anywhere on my own, there were always tears and I had to include them in everything I did. However, one of the positive results of this is that both girls can cook and bake quite well and I am sure it's to do with all the times I drew up a chair for them to stand on in the kitchen and got them to rub butter into flour for pastry or stir the macaroni.
It's lovely now to be able to trust them in the kitchen. I am so happy when they offer to make supper - sweet and sour chicken. I would never have done this at their age.
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