Yesterday, I got really crossed with Nora. I sewed two felt flowers for her and they went missing. She was playing with them by the sofa but when I was trying to tidy the front room, we could not find it.

Nora kept insisting that she didn’t lose the flowers and I told her that if we can’t find the flowers, she cannot play with any of her toys. We were going to go out and get boxes and tidy everything up. She also has to choose the toys that she is not playing with anymore to give away as I am fed up with all the mess and she just has too many things.

As I said, I was very cross.

We got boxes. We tidied up. We didn’t find the flowers.

In the evening, as I was putting a book on the shelf, I saw the flowers!

She was right, she didn’t lose the flowers. I did take them away from her when she was playing near the sofa as I was worried that she would lose them… and I totally forgot about it.

This morning, I told her what happened and I apologised as I made a mistake… but she still need to keep her toys tidy.