Apparently, I should be wearing high heels, dressing in a skirt every day and wearing make-up at all times. I should never leave the house without lipstick and my hair should be longer.
This 'advice' has not come from any of the latest fashion magazines or newspaper editorial. Instead it has come from my six-year-old (verging on 16-year-old) daughter who decided to mention this to me in the car this morning on the way to school.
Apparently I do not look girlie enough, which is just charming!
This all stems from my visit to London yesterday for the Super Savvy Me website launch. The fact that I was wearing lipstick and mascara (at least when I left the house) was noted by my daughter and met with her approval. Now she wants me to make a similar effort every day even if I am only going to the school gates.
I had thought that it was usually the parent telling the child to wear less make-up, not the child telling the parent to wear more. And now she seems to want me dressed like a Bratz doll, which is not at all what I was wearing yesterday. Who knows where that idea has come from.
Anyway, yesterday's website launch was great and Granny managed to take IJ to school for the first time, despite the fact that I locked them both in the house by mistake when I left. Thankfully Procter and Gamble's site is aimed at real mothers, not those that her perfect and that has to be a good thing. It would not be relevant to me otherwise.
At a hotel that was so exclusive it did not even need a sign on the door (which explains why I got lost), I joined a number of fellow bloggers: Sticky Fingers, Single Parent Dad(who very enthusiastically took home my Pampers Gift of Life parcel), Bringing up Charlie (with Charlie), Dulwich Divorcee, A Modern Mother, Who's the Mummy, Jo Beaufoix and Potty Mummy for a talk about the site and then lunch. Their guest contributer, Lowri Turner, was also there and thankfully she shares my ability to burn food regularly.
After a very sociable day where we were all very well looked after, I arrived home to discover that I had sent IJ to school with ham sandwiches that contained no ham. And I had locked them both in the house until granny had located a spare key. So they had not been quite so well looked after.
How super and savvy am I?!!
