#nieces

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Tyrion III

“You might send young Snow. He would be glad for a chance to see his brothers.”

Mormont frowned through his thick grey beard. “Snow? Oh, the Stark bastard.

“I think not. The young ones need to forget the lives they left behind them, the brothers and mothers and all that. A visit home would only stir up feelings best left alone.

“I know these things. My own blood kin…my sister Maege rules Bear Island now, since my son’s dishonor. I have nieces I have never seen.” He took a swallow.

“Besides, Jon Snow is only a boy.”

[tilbageidanmark]

[ye-olde-tardis]

Can't wait for my nieces to get old enough to do batshit crazy fairy witch stuff with me

[comfortableinthesilence]

Busy and fun afternoon with my nieces making bracelets and they even made me one too! Its been a long and busy day but as always nice to spend times like these with them being creative and just having fun! Wish I wasn't back in work tomorrow and in the office as well as it means saying goodbye to them tonight as I wont be back from work in time to see them!

Still it's been a lovely weekend with them, even if I didn't get to do everything with them that I wanted to!

[lightthewaybackhome]

Some days are just made better because you got multiple hugs from nieces, information about all the books, names of all the cats, and they tried to ride home with you in such an obvious manner. My little munchkins are the best, even if they're not so little.

[raincitygirl76]

Oh good heavens, Niece #1 is turning into a Swiftie. She’s only 9 (and almost a half) years old!!!!

Her Grade 4 teacher is a Swiftie, and recently Niece #1 asked my sister to play her some Taylor Swift songs on the iPad. I guess she wanted to figure out what her teacher was on about. Anyway, it turned out she and Niece #2 already knew quite a few of the songs. They just hadn’t known they were all by the same person. Apparently the bus driver plays a lot of pop music on the bus to and from after school daycare.

I thought they were a little young to be Swifties. But my sister pointed out that when she was 8 (so even younger than Niece #1), she played a cassette tape of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” over and over on her tape player. Not with the slightest idea of what a virgin was, and my mother wasn’t in a hurry to enlighten her.

I was a bit fuzzy on the concept too, honestly. I knew about the Virgin Mary from Sunday School, but Sunday School was simultaneously insistent that Mary was a virgin, and extremely vague on what virginity as a concept actually meant. Anyway, Sister was in Grade 3, and all the other kids at school listened to Madonna, so she wanted to as well.

Our mom and I (her older sister) were both classical music snobs at the time. So I didn’t know anything about Madonna. Mom took Sister to the local department store’s record department, informed the sales clerk her daughter was looking for a Madonna tape, and the clerk sold it to them. My mom didn’t actually look at the name of the album until we were home.

Hard to believe now that I’m old enough to remember cassette tapes. When I was really little, we had a proper record player. I wasn’t allowed to touch it, for fear of damaging either the records themselves or the record player. And now vinyl, tapes, and CDs have all passed us by, and everything is streaming.

My nieces are growing up. I will probably have a nervous breakdown when Niece #1 gets her first period in a few years. I’m not ready for them to have favourite pop stars! At 9 I was still listening to Raffi and Charlotte Diamond.

[oediex]

Today, the family gathered at my parents', and after sitting through lunch, it quickly became too much for me. So I fled to my headphones and this week's song-on-repeat, and continued working on my latest jigsaw puzzle to calm my fried brain.

Suddenly, from behind the couch where I was puzzling, one of my nephews' head popped up. He saw me, saw me looking at him, and disappeared, a giggle in his mouth. Moments later, his hair showed up again, his forehead, then his eyes. And away he went. His childish laugh joined the song in my ears.

For about five minutes, this went on. Concentrating on my jigsaw, I would see movement in the corner of my eyes, look up, and he would hide. Then the others found him, and joined him in the game. Eventually, I ended up with four children by my side, excitedly watching me try and fail to fit the pieces together.

Grown-up puzzles are a mystery to them. Once, a couple of months ago, the youngest one spent a couple of hours at my place, and kept insisting on doing "the horses puzzle!" that I had lying around, only to face the obstacle of picking out a piece and exclaiming in confusion that it was "just all brown?!"

Children bring me joy. They are easy to please, yet full of wonder. Easy to talk to, yet surprising in their outlook. I just don't wish to keep them.

[darleenjade]

New hair

New set of nails

Close up of nails

Going to see Night swim with the neices' tonight

[dont-read-this-im-dead]

My sister and her boyfriend surprised us for Christmas dinner.

They cooked the meal in front of us, at the table, and we marked our orders on the menu and handed it back to them. We all gathered at the bottom of the stairs and had to give our name for the "reservation" and we were escorted to our seats, which were labeled with name plates.

At the end of the meal, my 8yo niece decided to leave a "tip" and review on her nameplate.

"$10 tip. I got full."

I decided to leave my own review. "Chefs were hilarious. 5 stars. Would def eat here again. Delicious."

Then my 12yo niece left her review, and I haven't stopped laughing.

"4.5 stars. Food was good, but I couldn't tell if the broccoli chef was Russian or Asian, and it seemed like they only had hours of training."

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[fieriframes]

[Got my nieces up here, my buddy Pete. Sometimes fail to walk the air. But, you know what, I've never been up here for Mexican food.]

[minnie-mystery]

Good day to be Indigenous!

[tilbageidanmark]

My sister and her daughters. Dir. Woody Allen, 1989

[stylesnews]

where are you guys :(

sorry :(

[drasticbookishsoda]

My friend was visiting this weekend and she called her kids from a souvenir shop to show them the stuff and ask what they wanted...

Friend: alright, so what do you want?

Kid 1: you're asking us what we want you to being us back from Nashville?

Friend: yes, I'm in Nashville, you need to tell me what you want

Kid 1: ok, I want you to bring me Ashley

Kid 2, from off screen: YES, I WOULD ALSO LIKE THAT PLEASE!

Me: 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[prideswim]

"My brother had a daughter The beauty that she brings, illumination..." Sufjan Stevens My sister had three daughters. My twin brother died at birth. I had two sons. A song lyric like Sufjan Stevens's can stir unintended emotions, such is the power of music. And look, if a photo and colour combination isn't a little symphony in my eyes, I'm not going to bother. I produced a monograph recently - a collection of my photos since starting Pride. I've still got the champagne I bought for the book party that I still haven't hosted on the new roof deck I built for that party. DM me if you be interested in that, and if there's some interest, I may even just do it! . . . #sufjanstevens #nieces #nephews #bothers #sisters #cousins #teenfashion (at Byron Bay, New South Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoR2yfLSTXR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=