The girls are currently going through a lengthy process of choosing their future husbands. I applaud their forward-thinking attitude on this one: marriage is a big step and not one to be entered into lightly.
A few weeks ago, Lauren announced that she was going to marry Daniel Lally because he’s “a lovely chap”. The next morning the two were inseparable in the playground before school, and over the following days Lauren took a number of love tokens into school for Daniel, in the form of drawings of them getting married and such like.
Within a few days, Hannah threw her hat into the ring and announced her intention to marry Daniel Lally. Happily it turned out that that was OK because Lauren had now set her sights on George Wadsworth. Daniel doesn’t seem to get much say in this, but then I don’t think he can tell them apart anyway, so he seems happy either way.
Since then, the girls have been round to their friend Emily’s to play, on which occasion Lauren was spotted creeping into Emily’s big brother Chris’s room and kissing him. The following day it was announced over breakfast that Hannah (yes, Hannah) is now going to marry Chris and Lauren is back to Plan A: marrying Daniel.
Understandably, we’re having a lot of trouble keeping up with all this. However, the subconscious mind is a great window into the heart’s desires, and on two occasions now we’ve gone to tuck the girls in late at night, to be informed by a sleeping Lauren that she’s “dreaming about Daniel Lally”.
Whoever said the course of true love ran smooth?