Unfortuante Events, Mobile Phones, Duramana

[sofie_elisabeth]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "snuffles_macgoo" <miss_megan at d...> 
wrote:

> I'm thinking bad thoughts about evil stepfathers, (where is your 
> mother in this?) 

Unfortantunatly my relationship with my mother is almost as bad as 
the one with my evil step-father. She always sides with him, even 
when I am most positively right. I only stay because I adore my two 
younger (half) brothers who are coming up 4 and 2. If I leave home I 
wouldn't be allowed to see them anymore.

On a more cheerful note and speaking of aforementioned adorable 
brothers. Joseph (almost four) had developed a passion for Disney 
videos particularly Peter Pan and The Jungle Book. And to my delight 
he insists that I watch them with him (hello second childhood!) 
Anyway after much whining on his part, my mother bought him and 
Andrew (coming up 2) plastic swords and plastic hooks so they can 
play sword fights. It's so sweet, that is until Joe whacks me across 
the knuckles with the plastic sword (It REALLY hurt!)

On a similar topic those of you who have children, do your kids get 
abbreviations of their names that are not all that similar to their 
names? It's just that while Alex (older brother aged 23) and Joseph 
get Al and Joe, myself and Andrew get Fie and Ady! It's to do with 
the fact that aged twenty-one months Joe couldn't say Andrew so he 
called him Ady. Fie is because that's what Alex called me I was born 
(he was six but couldn't say S very well). So any intresting 
abbreviations/nicknames among you doting mums and dads?

Sofie (who surprisingly still wants to have children despite living 
with two small (adorable) fiends!)