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Magic moments make up for twins' breakfast banter

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Vincent
Published date24 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
"Crisps," Emma immediately answered

Sensing a theme, the boy chipped in with, "McDonald's".

It was 7am on a Monday, and I just wanted an answer, but I laughed and dropped the chumminess in favour of a more direct, "come on, breakfast".

Unfortunately, they're six-yearolds and not entirely sure when a joke ceases to be funny and crosses into the territory of annoying.

The demands went from a hot dog and chips to a bowl of honey, until I decided they were having Weetabix.

I was pressure, increased ran into room to

To their credit, they were sticking to a theme and refused my offering, demanding biscuits.

This part of the morning is what I think of as the first step of three in the path to getting them out the door.

The other two are brushing teeth along with getting dressed and for all three, we allow an ambitious hour.

So far, it'd taken 20 minutes for them not to eat breakfast, and I was feeling the pressure, which only increased when they ran into the living room to watch television.

I chased after them and snatched the controller to discover Emma had removed the batteries.

Initially impressed by her ingenuity, this faded when she claimed to have lost them.

We played a merry dance of trying to find the batteries, until I just turned it off at the plug.

At this point, Thomas ran into the room with his trousers on his head, shouting, "is this right?"

By now, you get the picture of a chaotic morning, where nothing's been achieved, nobody's listening and we're late.

Whether I could do something...

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