The scene: It's Ponts de Mai, which apparently is French for "a long weekend every day this month." Thanks to a badly planned childcare patch for my visa renewal appointment involving taking the kids to Poulet's house, said kids ended up attending
no days of school this week. In order not to have this situation result in five straight days of cabin fever ending in the kids probably killing each other, we set up little field trips for each day. X chose yesterday's outing, which was a trip to the brocante. He loves these French flea markets; I think that "brocante" is French for "a lot of broken crap that is NOT coming into my house." By the time we headed home, everybody was kind of cranky and tired.
Quinta: "AIEEEEEE!!!!!"
Me: "Okay, what the hell is going on back there?"
Secondo: "Quarta STOLE Quinta's binky, Mom!"
Me, to X: "We need to put a stop to this crap right now. One day she's stealing a binky, the next thing you know she's running off with the President of France."
Are you calling her the future ex-wife of Pres. Sarkozy? That can't be good!
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Dude, you're a president behind! I was actually referring to our new president, Hollande--whose ex, Segolene Royal (the Hillary Clinton of France, basically), lost to Sarkozy in the 2007 election. Immediately afterwards, Hollande and Royal announced that they had broken up (after something like 30 years and 4 kids) and Hollande was living with a reporter with whom he had been having a long-term affair. It's THAT lady (the reporter), who is the new First -- Lady? Girlfriend? the protocol is a bit complex -- of France. The lady who stole Segolene's man.
Delete(I agree with Segolene's loose-lipped press secretary, who was suspended for a very long time during the 2007 elections when he commented that her only flaw was her partner!)
Now that he's out of office, I give it 2 weeks for Sarko and Bruni's marriage, at most... it's tradition, man!
DeleteI love your stories. Binky thievery is a common form of torture in our house, and I can't figure out how to stop it! Though it sounds like it's of the utmost importance to do so, lol.
ReplyDeleteHa! Ha! They always choose the best times to terrorize one another don't they?!
ReplyDeleteLOL! I hope you get them to some school next week and you get a wee break!
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