A Lump in the Throat
Conversations with my Daughter #45
Milla: Have you noticed one thing about Harry, Hermionie and Ron?
Me: What's that?
Milla: They all have white skin.
Conversations with my Daughter #44
Milla: Do you know what the most importantist thing is?
Me: You tell me what the most importantist thing is.
Milla: Life.
Me: What makes you say that?
Milla: It's Life. Not Mum and Dad, not school, not nursery, not house, not friends, not God. Life. And the world.
Me: What makes you say that?
Milla: Emmmmm. Life is nice. If your not in life your nothing. If life wasn't invented we wouldn't be here now. We're human. We're stardust. If stars we'ren't invented we wouldn't be here. Full stop.
Conversations with my Daughter #43
Milla: Do you know what's inside a baked bean?
Me: Bean?
Milla: No, potato.
Me: No it's not it's bean.
Milla: Look. It's white.
Me: But the beans are white so when you look at their insides they are white.
Milla: And so are potato's.
Conversations with my Daughter #42
Milla: Are we in fairyland?
Me: No, we're in Scotland.
Conversations with my Daughter #41
Milla: If you get married again can I hold a cushion with a ring on?
Me: Yes. But I don't think I'll get married again.
Milla: Why not?
Me: Well I don't think there is much point to it.
Milla: But you want another baby don't you? Or a daughter?
Me: Yes, but you don't need to be married for that.
Milla: But the man has to give you something.
Me: It's not marriage.
Conversations with my Daughter #40
Me: I have something to tell you. In about a month I won't be going to work.
Milla: That's great!
Me: Why?
Milla: Because then you can pick me up from school and we can have fun together.
Me: Yeah, we can have fun together. But we're going to have to be careful with money. We won't be able to have chips.
Milla: Why?
Me: Well work is where I get money.
Milla: But you'll have a boyfriend by then.
Me: Why do you say that?
Milla: We'll because you should. It's very unusual.
Conversations with my Daughter #39
Milla: God made people, and Buddah made the plants.
Me: What makes you say that?
Milla: Buddah's are good at planting things. They plant wishes. God is good at human's but God and the Buddah's made the first people on earth. And perhaps wizards.
Conversations with my Daughter #38
Me: Now, I'm going to put some music on. We're going to listen to music. This, is Massive Attack.
Milla: Is it scary?
Conversations with my Daughter #37
Milla: I think Christmas is when the dead rise up.
Me: Why?
Milla: Because that is when the world started.
Me: I don't think that anyone knows when the world started.
Milla: It's when you give presents to the dead. It's when you give presents to the living. It all add's up!
Conversations with my Daughter #36
Me: I couldn't love you more.
Milla: You stink.