Re: Super Daddy

Bandit Heeler
Brisbane 
Queensland
Australia

Dear Bandit,

Having taken Littles to the park after nursery, I'm afraid I made the one mistake I reallys should have learned not to make by now. I left the house without a spare change of trousers.

I parked myself on a bench and handed her some money to go get a fairycake (the best thing ever, as I'm sure you've been informed) from the cafe.

Five minutes later, the woman from the cafe was leaning out the door beckoning urgently. I came in and she said "She's had a wee accident", and sure enough, there she was, standing in a puddle of her own making. She's been reliably toilet-trained for a few months, so this isn't something I'd expect to have to prepare for, hence being completely unprepared. I apologised profusely to the woman in the cafe, who, I must say, was an absolute legend about the whole thing.

So I cleaned Littles up, and faced the problem of a fifteen minute walk between the park and home, with a not very small small person with no trousers, pants, socks or shoes. So I wrapped my fleece around her like a skirt and tied its sleeves around her waist, then I carried her all the way home.

Bandit, I'm neither as young as I was, nor as fit as I should be, so by the time I got home I was absolutelt destroyed and my whole body ached. But I did it, and that kind of made me feel like Super Daddy!

What are some of your Super Daddy moments?

Give my love to Chilli and the girls, 

Best wishes,



Alastair

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