I have crossed over to the dark side.
That person that picks her battles carefully went for a long walk this morning to a very happy place and left Super Bitch Mom to deal with the Monday morning blues. (Even Etienne lost his cool today. Normally he is so calm I have to check him for a pulse.)
The SB Mom that says Fuck This. You WILL wear a long-sleeved vest AND stockings because I SAID so and then proceeds to yank on those offending items of clothing whilst punctuating her words with every yank.
No harmony at Casa Roux this morning, except for poor Daniel that thought it was hilarious and was copying all the crying/whining/shouting in fine form. When I leaned into the car to kiss the girls I literally got the cold shoulder, and I was so pissed off at the time I didn’t actually care. I literally dumped him at the school gate with a hasty kiss and a “Love you madly” and stomped off in a huff, desperate to get to work.
Etienne got to drop off The Sisters Grim. He isn’t answering his office phone so I’m not sure how that went. For all I know he is still at the school trying to detach them from his legs. Once again: don’t really care. I’m sitting in peace and quiet in my own office, thank you very much.
Edit to add: Etienne did in fact have quite a battle to detach them from his legs in the end. Oh well.
But, moving right along, I have a life-or-death question to ask that I’ve been meaning to ask for a while. We were at a party on Saturday night (Hello and happy birthday K! Sorry we stayed so late!) and between the obligatory existential conversations about To Wax or Not To Wax I asked Tertia:
Do you wear a dressing gown?
I seem to have accumulated 2 dressing gowns, a winter and a summer number and lately I have actually been wearing them, especially the big white fluffy number my sister bought me ages ago at La Senza that was gathering dust in my cupboard. I must be getting old, but I really like them these days, they are strangely comforting first thing in the morning. Fancy that.
Do you wear dressing gown/s? Do you expect your kids to wear them?
Here’s a quick poll to help:
Both my kids wear gowns. They wear them in the morning when they get up and if we go out at night. I would love to wear a gown but unfortunately because I am so short gowns are always a little uncomfortable for me, the belt is always in the wrong place 🙁
I have a La Senza that I sometimes wear after a bath at night. Ít’s to die for! The boys don’t have gowns. In the mornings they get dressed right out of bed, no time to run around in PJ’s. They have (very old) fluffy jerseys they wear over their PJ’s on weekends when they are allowed to stay up after bath. If we go out, they wear their clothes until we get back, no matter how late. My husband refuses to wear one. Maybe it’s just us, but gowns don’t feature big in our family.
I have this wonderfull fluffy @Home white one like the 5 star hotel ones. I totally love it. And yes, my kids wear theirs, apart that the boys’ is too small and I have not found new ones to fit yet.
Gosh, I LOVE my gown. It’s the first thing I grab when I get home and the first thing I grab in the morning too! My kids LOVE theirs and my DH loves his too, however he sometimes grabs mine because it’s just so much nicer. Believe me, this does NOT make me happy. I had no idea it was an old-peoples thing because I’ve been a gown person for YEARS!
My girls and Wayne all love their gowns.I don’t wear one myself I wear a tracksuit top and pants(not all matchy matchy) when I get up in the mornings.
I have the SB Mom visit my house often,luckily it’s the older 2 that set her off and I will often get a BBM to say sorry from them later in the day.They know how to push my buttons in the mornings and I hate being late.