In total this summer season we hosted.
1 Danish girl,1 Spanish girl,1 French girl,1 German girl and two Austrian's.
The Danish girl who like all the others, was polite, friendly would have definitely got Grace's vote just for her sheer endurance at playing unicorn games designed for a 5 year old in another language! That said Anna text me halfway through the Austrian's stay to tell me these two had the potential to win this season's golds.
Their making her a cook book of traditional Austrian dishes clinched it four days before their departure.
"They must have read "How to win over a primary school Mum,1st edition."
1) Take your shoes off.
2) Scatter your dialogue with descriptive language.
3) Offer to wash up
3) Tell her she cooks as well as her Mum.
4) Look away when her son is licking a puddle of milk and Cheerios off the breakfast table.
This was I think Austria's first two summer Gold medals since the 1923 games in Stuttgart when the late great "Heidi Von Edelweiss cowbell the 3rd" won gold in the hammer throw.
At 4am ish on Wednesday our three children were uniquely asleep!
Anna was fussing about hand luggage dimensions and best before dates of yoghurt.
Two 14 year old Austrian's were sat at our kitchen table, drinking tea, eating toast and staring out into the mist of a day that was only minutes old.
"What is you say in English? Are you wanting of a cuppa?"
I was trying to work out if my appearing like a bleary genie to carry the suitcases downstairs and say goodbye in my Wife's dressing gown because mine still smelt of sour milk and flash would put a sour milk smelling dampner on the grand departure?
It didn't.
Saturday,two days before his actual birthday William had his birthday party which contained everything you would expect from a 4 year olds birthday party.
A Mum up at dawn to clean skirting boards in pre-emptive defence of the judging eyes of other Mums.
Two wildly over excited children who were surely minutes away from a sugar induced crash.
A Dad who was taking his "Head of Hot beverages / putting the pizzas in for the parents assistant coordinator role!" very seriously.
William's smiling face at bedtime was all the thanks we could have needed. He even made an effort with his piddling.
"Look Daddy I'm weeing like you! I got most of it in the loo!"
"Well then you've achieved something I'm yet to William!"
An idea from "Mr Dadmission" was created and launched onto the Utube channel on Thursday night.
But not before I had cleverly hid it behind the,way too small, shield of self deprecation. A barrier I disguised as comedy to deflect bullies and harsh comments away since at least 1981.
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