Your daughter has THIS conversation with your Mum:
Flea: Grandma, you know the apple you gave me?
Mum: Yes.
Flea: I’ve eaten it all.
Mum: Well done, just keep the core until we get home.
Flea: I’ve eaten the core. And the stalk, too. There’s nothing left.
Mum: Really? You must have been hungry.
Flea: Well, we did forget breakfast and lunch today. Can I come to your house for something to eat?
It’s not quite as bad as it sounds – we’ve been doing that festive thing of surviving on a diet of Chocolate Oranges, clementines, cheese and Pringles. There have been relatively few recognisable ‘MEALS’ – except obviously my Mum now thinks I’ve been starving the poor child.
As an added bonus, my parenting credentials this week were bolstered still further when we were at the beach and a passing greyhound ran off with Flea’s beloved Stitch soft toy and I could do nothing except laugh so hard I cried. And take pictures, obviously. Here’s the owner making a run after the dog who is holding the blue bundle of fur and stuffing that is Stitch.
(we got him back eventually, intact and a bit slobbery)
Oh I am SO glad I’m not the only one who forgets to feed them. Mine have become feral this Christmas.
One woman’s feral is just another woman’s independence. *cough*
Yes, my daughter went to her Grandma’s house the other for ‘food’. She told her Grandma (aka my ex-MIL) we had nothing to eat and she was hungry. Her Grandma then rang me to tell me not to worry as she was feeding her. Excellent.
haha! It’s great isn’t it how they learn so young…
As a money saver I think this is an excellent budgeting tip. May I include in my next post “to save money on food tell your children to tell their grandparents that they don’t get fed at home, then simply send them there for dinner.” I think it’s a winning idea, thanks.
We have been known to employ this tactic semi-regularly on Sundays.
Yeah that’s *never* happened to me before! *cough* not at all! 😉
hahaha!
Is it not standard to eat nothing but crap over Christmas? And somehow I can understand you taking a photograph of the dog first…
It’s virtually the law.
Love this blog! And through it I’ve found a heap of other mummy blogs to follow! So thanks! 🙂 x
Huzzah! So glad to be helpful 🙂
Efficiency. A+.
Chocolate Oranges count as one of your five a day don’t they?!?
Mine are like cats, they moan at everyone until they get fed. I’m pleased to say the older ones now feed the younger ones if I’m a tad ‘distracted’ so they rarely actually miss a meal these days.
I have a Chocolate Orange tip for you: If the last piece of your chocolate orange has gone missing and it is only you and your daughter in the house, don’t be too quick to accuse her of eating it, because you may just be sitting on it, leading to an ‘arse covered with melted chocolate’ situation which she will hoot about for days.
I heard that happened to somebody once.
(oh hang on, it was me)
You’re officially my new role model.
This made me laugh, can your Mum feed me-my kids are eating me out of house and home!
Yep, been there done that. Forgot tea the other day, had been hoovering up too many crisps and wasn’t hungry myself. So sent them to bed…. and no-one said a thing!
My daughter hates eating in the early morning (I do, too). Her lunch at school is served at 10:30am, so it’s not so bad. But every now and then I force her to at least eat a cookie in the car on the way to school.
My mum, when we see her, has a habit of asking my daughter what she typically has for breakfast, and of course, the answer is “cookies.”