Anybody remember
Curious George? My middle daughter
Raewyn is very like curious George.
Raewyn simply can’t resist things like closed drawers. I on the other hand, am scared of what I
would find. I have never read my
daughters’ diaries or rifled through their cupboards. As a parent I think there is a lot I would
rather not know. Yip “keep my head
firmly stuck in the sand parenting” style works for me.
Anyway our very own Curious
George has gotten herself into a lot of awkward situations with her
curiosity. She once set off the alarm
at her work because she wondered if she could crack the safe code. Were it anybody else you would think thief,
but there is the parody Raewyn would never take anybody else’s stuff.
In 2006 the roof of the house we were renting, blew right off.
For a while we had to move into my sister’s house. Carmen my eldest daughter lived with my
sister. She was about to go away and
Raewyn was going to stay in her bedroom.
I don’t know who came
up with the Evil Plan but we decided to tease our Curious George. The night before Carmen left she wrote a
diary. She spoke about how she fell
pregnant and had an abortion. How she
was stealing money from me to fuel her cocaine habit. I am sure you are getting the picture. Carmen “hid” the diary in her top drawer.
For the next few
months we speculated whether Raewyn had read the diary or not. We decided she had not because surely she
would confide in one of us. We forgot
about it.
Four years , yes FOUR
YEARS later, Carmen was out with her
boyfriend and most of the family were sitting
in the lounge when Raewyn said, “Mom, I
know Carmen is fine now but she was stealing your money years ago....”
At this point my
sister and I looked at each other and said simultaneously, “The diary.”
Have you heard about Yeah Write? I am taking part in their open challenge.
Have you heard about Yeah Write? I am taking part in their open challenge.
