Another slightly random post today. It’s getting to be a habit.
This time, I want to remark that I have just spent a fortune on the Internet buying nice things for my baby, and I feel fab… that holiday feeling of buying new nappies!
We’ve got coming to us – a green fuzzi and a periwinkle swaddlebee; a merino wool blanket for Baby M to sleep on now that we’ve given up night nappies; some new nappy nippas (the only thing I truly needed); and some new cloth wipes (something of an extravaance to buy them, but the ones I made by cutting up an old cotton sheet are all frayed at the ages, shrinking and woefully inadequate in number now that I spend my life cleaning up wee but using up fewer nappies and therefore washing less frequently).
Oh, and a couple of little wooden peg-jigsaws now that she is just about clever enough to use them. They were practically free, too, as they were the top-up items I needed to get free postage and packing… 🙂
Mmm. This isn’t a good trend, this shopping frenzy.
Yesterday I bought Baby M some new clothes and some new shoes (which, in fairness, she needed) and at lunchtime today a little bag of plastic farm animals (a bargain at £1-odd for 10 animals). The fact that the Stuff isn’t really for me is no excuse is it?! No, not really. Thought not.
Must. Try. To. Curb. Acquisitive. Urges.
29 September 2006 at 6:45 am
well done on no night nappies!Wet beds but happy bums but they soon learn I belive and it is seems to be the last ‘problem’ for potty training. I think getting dry nights first is a much more sensible way around. We sleep on a bed of cotton bottom nappies! You just can’t lazy around for that early morning feed – you have to rush to get nappy on/ baby over potty.
29 September 2006 at 6:32 pm
I spy a Mothercare addict 🙂
29 September 2006 at 9:11 pm
I don’t think Baby M has learned anything, but I do have a lot of towels that smell of wee… Ick.
(Meanwhile, her bum is getting happier and nursery are, of course, praising her disposables to the skies. Sigh.)
PS Mothercare!!
Oh dear, no, no, no. Mothercare exists to fleece unsuspecting parents, and (more to the point) parents-to-be and people-without-kids-who-need-to-buy-new-baby-presents-and-don’t-really-know-what-to-get. They don’t sell ANY properly nice stuff, only overpriced unnecessary stuff that isn’t even cool…
[Hark at the fashion guru speaking.]
Unlike
Natural Child
Kittykins
and The Nappy Lady
to cite just a few of my favourites. Mmmm, nice things…