To What We Play?

Today Dominga went to work in Milan. Clarissa had the afternoon off from school, so I went and picked her up for lunch at home. And then after lunch we had 9 hours before Dominga came home.

9 hours of PLAY PLAY PLAY.

It was exhausting. We played everything. It started off okay because it's Dominga's birthday on Saturday so we made her a birthday card (and very nice ones too.)




Our beautiful birthday cards for Dominga (Clari insisted I added more stars...)



But when we finished it was: "To what we play?".

So we rollerbladed. We played catch. We played volleyball. We played Lego.

"To what we play?"

We played the game of Pairs I made yesterday. We played with Skifidol (the goo Clarissa bought at Giusella's shop). We wrestled. We played hide and seek. We played pretending games where I was the bossy nasty person.

"To what we play?" Pause.. "To what we play?" Pause... "To what we play?"

 On and on, like a broken record.

 "Why don't we carry on playing Lego?"

"No."

Oh right.

............."What we do?"

9 intense hours later (and I mean intense - I couldn't even get away for enough time to go to the toilet by myself. Clari insisted on coming in with me anyway, and when I shut her out and locked the door she'd turn out the light because some genius put the switch outside the bathroom), I escaped and could rock myself back into sanity.