Looking after four small children requires patience – and a handy local running track
Nora is still running but the finish line is in sight. The boys have not yet noticed they’ve been outplayed, but they’re about to witness the kind of soaring moral fable that any parent dreams of.
Maeve and I grew up in a family of 11, so our own childhood was a bustling metropolis of infant interaction, filled with noise and games and the kinds of fights children can only really have with siblings; the kind where you can draw blood by throwing the pointy end of a VHS tape at your sister’s head , but seconds later conspire to keep it a secret from your dad so you can sit happily together and watch said tape itself .
And I do mean now, since we are currently spending an entire weekend with four kids. It’s intense, but thankfully they manage to keep each other occupied, for the most part. After a morning in the park, we go to the indoor trampoline centre, and thence to the running track out back to see who can get to the end quickest and, hopefully, most tired.
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