oliver is out for dinner tonight with a supplier and some of the team from work, so i thought it would be lovely for me a ronnie to go and grab some dinner out too. so swiftly from nursery off we went. ronnie as usual was great company and we nattered and coloured in his book whilst munching our supper. what i hadn’t expected was his announcement to the waitress when she came over with our bill.
ronnie : i did a poopa whiff on the chair
*exit mother swift left*
so last week i delved into my coat pocket to be starkly reminded of what our child care costs amount to each month. OUCH. i spoke on the radio about it and the lovely people at LBC fell over in shock. it is indeed more than our mortgage.
today in the press and on the news there were numerous articles/reports on how nursery costs are rising by nearly 6%, and that fewer families are now getting any help at all with these, following the childcare tax credit cuts back in april.
it’s a glorious sunday. we have all had a lazy morning, nice long sleeps, lolloping around in jim jams drinking tea and then a spectacular fry up to ease the grown ups slightly banging heads.
the smalls grab their coats and shuffle on their wellies over their jammas and dash out into the garden with cracker the lemon beagle pup. they bound around with complete giddiness. they settle on the decking, sitting along the front swinging their little legs. the still sun light hangs in the air as their giggles fade away.
the hot topic this week is all about mothers, working and what that all costs. weirdly on tuesday i pulled a piece of paper from my pocket to find OUCH. the very next day i received a call from LBC radio to chat to nick ferrari about childcare costs in the uk capital and what impact this is having on london families. two days later i get tagged in a meme, a mothers working meme to be precise. tagged by the daily mum and started by pret a mummy (bargain mummy) and mother.wife.me. spooky.
i have been tagged by mum of one on the meme started by Claire from A Boy with Asperger’s. i believe that somewhere along the road the rules below have been tweaked, but it wasn’t me honest guvna! and anyways are rules meant to be bent or broken?
but before i start her are the rules: