That was excellent - especially love the earliest ones - but then to see her slowly start to grow.
Thanks Santa.
(Don't think I've progressed past age 1 and 2 really!
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| Author: | Secret Santa [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Margot's Resolutions (a New Year's gift for lizziearrnet) |
Since the triplets appear, confusingly, to have been 17 for two years in a row, I've just made them a year older in their last year at school so that the timeline looks vaguely sensible! Happy New Year, Liz! Age 1: I want food! Age 2: I want toys! Age 3: I’m going to be a daddy when I grow up. Age 4: Mamma told us about making New Year’s Resolutions. That’s when you say you’re going to do something for a whole year. I’m going to be nice to everyone. Age 5: Mamma explained to us about New Year’s Resolutions. It’s a good idea, ‘cos you say you’re going to do something and then you have to do it. I have made one to say I’m sorry to Len and Con for being mean to them this morning. Mamma said it was a good start. Age 6: Len has made a Resolution to keep her room tidy and Con has too. She’s such a copycat. I’m not going to make one at all. I think they’re stupid. Age 7: I have made a Resolution not to listen to my devil. I don’t think Papa believes in him. He always looks funny when I talk about him, anyway, so I haven’t told him about my Resolution. Mamma said it was a very good idea and she is going to help me. Age 8: There was a bit of snow, so we made a tiny snowman but I wanted to do its head by myself and the others wouldn’t let me and I listened to my devil and I was so angry. I thought I might make a Resolution to not listen to him, but I did that last year and it didn’t work. So I’m making one to look after baby Mike instead, ‘cos he’s very small still. Age 9: I have made a Resolution to write more often to Len and Con and Mamma and Papa. And to pray every day that we go home soon, because though it’s fun here I hate being away from them. I haven’t told anyone that though. Age 10: I am Resolving to be good this year. I told Mamma when we said our prayers and we asked God to help me ‘cos sometimes I don’t seem to be able to help myself. Age 11: My New Year’s Resolution is not to listen to my devil. Age 12: Mary-Lou says she has made a Resolution never to stand in front of a sledge going downhill at high speed again, but I think she is joking. I have decided before that I’m not going to do as my devil says, but this time I really mean it. I listened this time, and Mary-Lou nearly died. I think I would have died too, if she had. I’m never, ever going to do anything like that again. Age 13: Len and Con have both made New Year’s Resolutions but they’re being terribly secret about them! I expect they’re dull things like working hard and being tidy. I can’t be bothered with that stuff – it’s no fun and Emmy and I are planning to have a jolly time next term! Age 14: I wish I could spend the Christmas hols with Emmy in Australia. It’s so dull here sometimes, and Len and Con don’t always like the same sort of fun as we do. And I should love to have a Christmas in the summer! Age 15: I’m making a Resolution to live somewhere without any snow as soon as I’m old enough! No, really, I’m making a proper serious one this year (though I’m sure I remember having made it before). I think this last year has actually been worse than that first one in Canada, and not least because most of the worst things in it have been my own fault – I don’t think I’ll ever stop curling up in shame at what I did to Ted. I really do mean to try, though. And if I fail – well, I’ll just have to pick myself up and carry on trying, as the Abbess said. It’s horribly difficult, though. Age 16: This year’s Resolution is the same as usual. Sometimes I wonder if it’s really worth bothering. And actually, I’m not doing it so much as a Resolution as a sort of renewal of my determination to do better. I don’t think I’ve been quite as bad this year, though I know better than anyone that there’s still an awful long way to go yet. Oh well, I must just keep on trying. Age 17: No sooner did I make last year’s resolution than I nearly killed Betty Landon, just because I couldn’t control myself. I make myself sick, sometimes. I’m not going to Resolve, this year. It doesn’t make any difference, really, I just pretend to myself that it will. But I am going to pray hard that God will help me. I think he already has, and I hope that between us we can make me into something worthwhile. Age 18: I never stop making a hash of things. They say that everyone has a weakness, and mine seems to be that I can never see things from the other person’s point of view – my instant reaction to everything is ‘me’ and unfortunately other people suffer for it. I try so hard, and I never seem to succeed. So, in the face of all the evidence that it simply doesn’t work, I am making a Resolution that I will think before I speak, I will consider other people, and I will carry on trusting in God. Age 19: I’m making the same resolution once more, because I feel it’s something I still need to work hard on. But during the last year I really do believe that, with God’s help, I’ve changed for the better and that I am starting to conquer my selfishness and bad temper. I’ve learned many things even in one term at university but I think humility has been the most important – something I was never able to learn at school! I hope I’ll continue to grow in the next year and ever after. |
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| Author: | Lesley [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 7:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Margot's Resolutions (a New Year's gift for lizziearrnet) |
That was excellent - especially love the earliest ones - but then to see her slowly start to grow. Thanks Santa. (Don't think I've progressed past age 1 and 2 really! )
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| Author: | Alison H [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Margot's Resolutions (a New Year's gift for lizziearrnet) |
Thank you Santa. |
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| Author: | ChubbyMonkey [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Margot's Resolutions (a New Year's gift for lizziearrnet) |
Thankyou Santa - I loved Jack looking "funny" at her Devil. |
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| Author: | PaulineS [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Margot's Resolutions (a New Year's gift for lizziearrnet) |
Thanks Santa. |
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| Author: | hac61 [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Margot's Resolutions (a New Year's gift for lizziearrnet) |
I empathise with the last two resolutions. They sound like mine, especially the last. |
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| Author: | JB [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Margot's Resolutions (a New Year's gift for lizziearrnet) |
Thanks Santa. Poor Margot and her Devil. |
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| Author: | lizziearrnet [ Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Margot's Resolutions (a New Year's gift for lizziearrnet) |
Thank you Santa that was lovely though i too dont think i've progressed past ages 1 and 2!! |
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