Wedding Party

Two years ago I went to a close friend's wedding reception.

During the morning, I went to our local shopping centre, looking for something to wear, leaving Callum to babysit, as this is how he earns most of his pocket money. I rang Kieron while I was out, to make sure he was being good and not winding up his big brother, before giving up and going home, to get lunch sorted for the boys before heading off to the reception.

Kieron could have come with me, but how many 10 year old boys want to go to this type of event? My friend had all sorts of goodies to eat and I remember telling my work mates who were also there that I should have coerced Kieron into coming along. Before I headed home, I grabbed a fistful of little chocolates that had my friend and her husbands name and date of the wedding on the wrappers and dutifully took them home for Kieron to munch.

Kieron asked me what the 'party' was like and tried to appear interested, but I know that it was only because he wanted to show gratitude for the chocolates. I asked what he had been up to and if Callum had looked after him properly. Kieron was looking forward to the following couple of weeks as it was the school Easter holidays and then I had arranged to take him out of school for a week to take him to Tunisia with Jade and her best friend, with Callum deciding that he would prefer to spend the week at his dad's house as he was 'getting too old ( read cool)' for family holidays.

I told him that I expected him to be good for his brother and sister the following day and the rest of the week as I had to go to work and he promised that he would, although I took this with a pinch of salt. I asked Kieron to tidy his room up for me, knowing full well that he would 'forget' and that I would have to ring him during the day to remind him.

At work the next day, I did ring Kieron a couple of times and he told me that he would be good and 'yeah, yeah, I'll sort my room'. We chatted briefly and he told me that he had been playing computer games and that Jade had been in all day too.

So my work day ended, I went home, and my world ended.