Archive for January 22nd, 2009

let’s make someone spend $9 to mail snowpants across town!

January 22nd, 2009 -- Posted in family, life as a mom | Comments Off

GAH! vent alert…

so my mother seems to think that buying my children new clothes gives her the right to do whatever she wants with the old ones. I hesitate to pack some of the things I really like when they go over there because I never know whether or not they will come back. This is a reality I dealt with my whole childhood, with favourite clothes mysteriously disappearing, even including a much-loved Tie-dye shirt that got “ruined in the wash” when I was 21!

The items of issue this time around were the kids’ snowsuits.

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