is sometimes hard to take right? sometimes it can come and bite you on the a*** so hard that you jump 5 feet from the ground. Yeah? yeah….
Maisie, for example, walking with me too school the other day said 'mummy you know that Isaac got a new booster seat?'…..( i was going to add my responses but lets say that they were all either ..yeah..or hmmmm…or ……)so maisie again 'it seems to me that Isaac always gets the new things and we just always get the things past on to us?"
reality biting….
although that is not, to be fair, strictly true. Isaac is after all a boy and therefore there is a limit to what can actually be past on to the girls…like his underwear for example…
oh….
wait…
yeah..i gave the girls his too small boxers to wear as shorts in bed…..
hmmmm….
The fact is that in a family of sixty odd that we have you are going to have to suck up some hand me downs..especially as there seems to be no point in the future when the Government will realise they need to pay Nurses and Teachers 6 figure salaries……
Which by the way was one of my favourite bits of the west wing when Rob Lowe's character argued for teachers pay……okay so it as a script…written and acted by people who probably get in a week what we get in a year but i LIKED the sentiment a LOT.
Maisie who today..couldnt find a clean summer dress to wear …..those pesky washing fairies on strike AGAIN….and had to wear her winter uniform to school…skipped out this afternoon and marvelled as she told me…
'Mummy, all the boys in my class said that i was the smartest girl in class today'…cue mummy wondering what to wear to Cambridge graduation….
Maisie …'because i was wearing my shirt and tie uniform and not the yellow dress'
oh….
teamjames
Hun I usually buy Pip 2nd hand because I just don’t believe that we need all the ‘stuff’ in the world. Your children are learning the value of things and you’re doing a fantastic job x