11 November, Independence Day - speeches, song, marching about with flags, parades on horseback, an air of ceremony - every year I think, how lovely to experience Polish Independence Day and see what it's all about! And every year, we miss it. (I've missed nine Independence Days now.) It's too cold, or I'm sick, or someone has a birthday party, or I'm working, or we're all set to go out and it starts to rain... well, it is November, after all.
But this year I suppose we could say we had something of the Independence Day spirit. There was marching (we went on a walk in the woods with Munchkin) and parades on horseback (the path we go on through the woods is a horse path, although we didn't
technically see any horses) and song (one habitually sings things to a baby), and a flag propped up against a tree in our front garden.
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| Patriotic marches |
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| You want me to do WHAT? |
Other festivities included forcing Madame to try out her new toys. We've borrowed a play mat and a swing from some friends, and with great excitement set her up in each of them (the excitement was ours, not hers.)
She lasted a good half hour on the play mat - provided one of us sat with her, with our heads wedged under the little arcs, in between the dangling toys, so she could reach her hand past the dangling butterflies and dingly birds and stick her fingers up our noses.
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| OK, I'll bat at the birdie if you do it first |
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| They say it will be fun |
And she lasted about twenty minutes in the swing - provided I kept coming to stand in front of her, dangling different toys in front of her hands, which she quickly bypassed, reaching up to my face and sticking her fingers in my nose. So, the takeaway lesson is, as long as you have a nose, you don't need to buy any other toys for your kids.
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| OK, it's growing on me |
Other than that, another Independence Day came and went. Just like every other year. Maybe next year, tenth time lucky?
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