A gold medal shopping performance! (From Daily Echo)
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A gold medal shopping performance!
12:25pm Wednesday 15th December 2010 in Mum about Town
A gold medal shopping performance!
I HAVE a confession to make. You know that manic mother with a pram, who has you fleeing out of the way for fear of being ankle clipped while out shopping? Well that was most definitely me the other day.
Free of Ben for the morning who was safely deposited in pre school, I was unleashed on the aisles for some extreme Christmas shopping.
Just me and Katie who was buckled in and briefed on the high speed ride on which she was about to embark.
My mission was to make a dent on present buying for the family. On the face of it I know it would seem that I had all the time in the world to shop til I drop but the reality is that with a three year old in tow, a baby in need of almost constant cuddling and severe sleep deprivation, I have not got it together enough to brave the shops with any real intent.
It meant that after a solid fourhours of sleep in the bank I was determined to hit the high street. I apologise to those unsuspecting members of the public who may have crossed my path that day. It was like the parting of the waves on more than one occasion. My old gripe of people using the lifts who have two perfectly good legs to use the stairs surfaced once again, but I refrained from barging them out of the way, preferring instead to simply edge my way in front of them using my cute daughter by way of distraction.
The result was that I managed to conquer five shops in little over an hour. Exhausted but ever so slightly high on adrenaline I retired to a coffee shop for some needed caffeine and reflected on how if they made shopping with a baby an Olympic sport I think I would be in with a shout.
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Comments(7)
SpittingFire
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10:10am Wed 5 Jan 11
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Ms Davies rights puts me off motherhood I can tell you, from her accounts, there is little joy to be had in it!
mrs brand
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11:03pm Wed 5 Jan 11
estly, you would think Mr Murray could afford two decent bloggers instead of these idiots!
truesaint67
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11:17am Thu 6 Jan 11
mrs brand
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5:45pm Thu 6 Jan 11
truesaint67
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10:33am Fri 7 Jan 11
SpittingFire
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12:50pm Fri 7 Jan 11
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Mrs Davies writes her blog well. It is cleverly devised and as you say Truesaint, it has its audience: I'm sure the content is of support to other new mums.
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Mrs Brand's earlier point though, as Ms Davies being in such a position to write of her adventures, 'fessing up to her manic behaviour towards others whilst she is out Christmas shopping is not the finest thing to do.
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She has an amount of respectability to maintain in writing about being a "mum about town", even though I'm sure new mothers' can empathise with her actions. But that sort of content is hardy "guiding new mums through the parenting maze".
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Still though, she writes better than other bloggers here, so I continue to read!
mrs brand says...
5:17pm Tue 4 Jan 11