Our strange little ways

If you've popped into your aunties before, you'll probably know that the beautiful children have their own little quirks, some of you have been kind enough to share some of your own little quirks with me, make me feel less weird. We are quite happy in our own little world but we have some fairly weird stuff going on.

We'll start with the Beautiful Baby Daughter, she is the least weird. She thinks she was put on earth to keep the rest of us right. She is competitive and determined. That is the extent of her weirdness, in another family, an alpha type family this behaviour would go unmentioned and it might not even be noticed. She always has an interest on the go and that consumes her, for a while it was Twilight, all the books were read, posters bought, all computer time was spent searching for Twilight stuff. Then she was making lip balms, (vaseline, lipstick and flavouring) Dancing was a phase, where she did the choreography, assembled costumes and put on shows. Make up (which she's still not allowed to wear) was a huge passion, she would apply all different kinds to her face whilst on webcam and then upload it to youtube. There are several videos showing you how to give yourself a fun party face by Beautiful Baby Daughter aged 12 who lives with a remarkably mean make up on small children hating mummy.

No one will play board games with her any more, she is always desperate for someone to play Cluedo with and we just flat out say no, she gives out to you if you don't give it 100% and if your attention wanders she can get quite cross. This is bad, piss off the pusscat (one of her nicer pet names, aka Little Miss Last Word and Little Miss Bossy Knickers) at your peril. If you play with her, tv and music go off, mobiles have to be left switched off in another room and you have to go to the toilet before you start. She knows, you see, that if you wander out to the loo, you'll just check if anyone's called or texted, then you'll reply and then the games a bogie.

She is, by far, the cleverest of my children both in academia and in life, she is the only 1 of the 3 who didn't inherit my can't be arsed gene. On Friday night I was going out so she was being minded by EBD and her hot boy (aka fairy cake.) She waited till I was just about out the door, giving out my instructions, ie don't disappear upstairs and ignore your sister, and then she made her move. In her sweetest little sister voice, she asked EBD and hot boy to play Cluedo, she says she knows they want to be on their own for a bit so how about one game and then she'll go off to bed, now hot boy doesn't know what she's like at board games and EBD can't say no without looking like a total bitch. How to get your own way in one easy lesson.

Determined and resourceful are the words that describe her best. I used to joke that one day my child would be ruling the country, I think now she's going for at least Europe