- Parent and child parking spaces are a godsend. I never realised how much room you needed to get a baby seat out of a car before I had to do it. I LOVE these spaces. But in Sainsbury's the other day I watched 2 people come back to the car in the space next to me with no pushchair or child. This irked me to say the least, but they seemed to think it was fine as they had a disabled badge in the window. The fact they both walked perfectly well and were both carrying a number of shopping bags seemed to suggest they were not that physically impaired. Adding insult to injury, there was a whole row of empty disabled spaces in the car park (around 8 spots) and wondered how well it would be received if I parked in one of the disabled bays and used my child as the reason?
- Just having a baby/child seat in the back of your car also does not make it acceptable to park in one of the parent and child bays. As the 'disabled' car pulled out of the space, a chap pulled into it. 2 child seats in the back but no kids. I kid you not - no pun intended. Grrrrrrrr!
- I keep reading about babies of Boychild's age being 18, 20 and even 25lbs and wondering what on earth they are being fed. He was over 8lb when he was born but didn't put on weight to start with. Now he is just over 15lbs. He's not tiny but he's no means big either (Husb and I are both pretty restricted on the leg front!). How the hell can a five month old baby be 25lbs?? I know a one year old who weighs that and she looks comfortably cuddly so what the heck does a 25lb baby of 5 months look like?
- I have started to hate clothes shopping. Actually that's not strictly true. I started hating it when i was pregnant but I had hoped that by now, I would have started to like it again. I'm still too big for the pre-preg clothes but a size bigger is just a fraction too big. aarrrggghhh! And you have to speed shop too, whether you have the offspring with you or not. If you do then you can't try anything on. If you don't then you have to do it at breakneck speed as you have only a limited time without them. Either way, it sucks and is really depressing. Your daytime wardrobe can't really contain black/dark tops as you will be thrown up on about 3 times a day (or covered in drool or baby rice or any other yuk they have picked up) and your jeans MUST be stretch... you are on your knees or bending about 200 times a day. And it must all be non-iron. Who has time to iron when you have a baby?
- Nappy sacks. Effectively carrier bags to put poo in. So who the hell would want to pay over 2quid for a load of those? Just discovered Sainsbury's basics nappy sacks.... 12p. Bloody marvellous. Anyone who is prepared to pay lots of money for bags to put poo in, clearly has far too much of it (money, that is, not poo...).
- Nappy sacks. Effectively carrier bags to put poo in. So who the hell would want to pay over 2quid for a load of those? Just discovered Sainsbury's basics nappy sacks.... 12p. Bloody marvellous. Anyone who is prepared to pay lots of money for bags to put poo in, clearly has far too much of it (money, that is, not poo...).
