We'd barely got in the door this morning and she was waving me away (meep!) but we (myself and her sisters - big school doesn't go back until next week) hung around for 10 minutes or so, chatting to staff and other parents. When it was time to leave she was all smiles and waves ("See you this afternoon Mummy!")... until we actually got out the door, when she went hysterical. A few other new children had a quiet sniffle when their Mums left, but this was the full-on screaming and reaching for me as I tried to be cheery and positive and wave goodbye. Sigh. I put it down to her being sick over the weekend and still feeling a bit clingy but it's a distinctly horrible way to leave your baby in the care of others, regardless of how well she knows them :-(
Fortunately, just after we got back home (and I made myself a huge cup of tea to calm down), it started to drizzle with rain. It's been stinking hot here for weeks, and whilst it was forecast "showers" here today, that usually means we watch the storms go past on the other side of the hills about a kilometre away.
Only enough to "knock the dust off" so far, as they say, but it made for a nice break to sit outside with my cuppa and watch the garden soak it up.
After my cuppa I did a quick garden tour and it was then that I realised that the bunch of grapes lowest on one of the grape vines was pretty much ready to pick! So here it is, my very first bunch of grapes:
I savoured them as I wandered around the rest of the garden in the misty drizzle, and they were good :-) But lo, it seems that good things happen in threes as I decided that it was also time to harvest my first eggplants of the season:
Aren't they cool? I've grown Little Finger eggplants before but this is the first year I've managed to get the heritage Italian Listada Di Gandia eggplants past the seedling stage.
I think they deserve to be cooked into something a big spesh don't you? Any advances on Eggplant Parmigiana?
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Oh, Julie- Big hugs for you! I'm sure your daughter will love it when she gets used to the idea you don't stay.
I have 11 days until my twins start preschool, not sure whether I'll cry or rejoice!
Very nice of Mother Nature to give you a 'bit spesh'(!) gift on such a hard day, enjoy the fruits of your labour!
as my mum always says "they do it just for you...they stop as soon as you leave" lol. cheeky monkeys. she'll be waving you away in no time. the aubergine look so special, really pretty. umm eggplant lasagna is a fave, but indian eggplant with onion, mustard seeds, coconut and cashew is my No.1 fave aubergine dish. good going girl!
Julie,
I don't know which is worse... When I took number two to big school he cuddled me and as I clung to him he whispered "you can go now!!!" and it was me that did the crying and clinging. lol
I totally understand how you feel. My daughter used to cry every time we left her at child care until very recently. i used to make my husband drop her off as i just could not handle it.
I agree with Kel that eggplant lasagne is good. i made one the other night using almost everything from the garden (except cheese). make a simple tomato sauce, brown some eggplants that have been sliced longways. Layer just like you would a normal lasagne and top with cheese and bake c. 20 mins. So easy and so yummy.
Hehe, my daughters just run off to join their friends, calling back over their shoulder "you can go now, Dad!"
They have the occasional clingy day, but it's pretty rare. Usually it's just when their friends haven't arrived at the day care center yet. Then I get ditched when they arrive!
Many years ago when my kids were 8 and 10 years old I flew them to their grandparents for a three week summer vacation. My husband and I were not going..I cried on the inside on the way to the airport and on the outside on the way home..until we stopped for lunch, a quite lunch. Hmh..a really quiet lunch, no hurry, no I want.. why was I crying??
Anyway your eggplants look wonderful. I tried to grow them last year in my greenhouse but they were infested with flea beetles, I'll give it a try again this year but I have to fix the flea beetle problem.
I love your post and look forward to it every day.
Margaret
The child care director was handing *me* the tissues the first time I dropped B off a couple of years ago!
Love the grapes & eggplants!
Hi guys,
Thanks for the sympathy LOL. I was a bit flustered in that it was quite unexpected - I was fully expecting the "See ya" from Miss 3and no backward glances! Ah well :-)
Cheers, Julie
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