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My youngest daughter has decided she wants a Mizz Stars. She is three and very articulate. She speaks clearly and concisely, she hasn’t ever spoke baby talk and aside from ‘huggle’ (a cross between a cuddle and  hug), she doesnt invent words.

So for three hours we wondered what a Mizz Stars was, where we got one from and what we were going to do in the likelihood we couldn’t trace what she had requested.

We spoke to her about dolls, no it wasn’t that, animals – no it wasn’t that, things for her bedroom – no it wasn’t that and she was getting increasingly more wild with us for not knowing what a Mizz Stars was.

Jas rarely makes requests, if she does its for other people. The cat, the hamster, the dog and her baby dolls all come before her, so when she asks for something I try to get it for her. I wish her sisters were like this, but from them I get a constant stream “I want” demands. No doubt they will say she was the favourite as she got what she asked for whilst conventiently forgetting they asked for 100% more and got at least 50% of it….

So back to the Mizz Stars…. Jessica, my wag comes home and her Spanish ancestry is showing in the form of her glowing olive skin with a faint black moustache. So I say to her “I picked up some wax in Boots this afternoon, you can remove your moustache if you like…” and she was quite happy, as now she has a new boyfriend she has become quite self conscious of having more facial hair than him. I have told her to get used to it

Little one pipes up, “I would like a Mizz Stars like you Jess and like mummy” at last, we know what Mizz Stars is! and no, she isn’t going to have one.

Yesterday I came across the term ‘Mommy Blogger’ which I think is a thinly veiled insult. Yes am I mum, and I blog about all sorts of things, all sorts work things, life things and family things. That doesn’t make me a mommy blogger, that makes me a person.

Mommy blogger is as bad as Mumpreneur (however you spell it, it’s bad). How on earth do people think it’s pleasant to tag someone only on their abilty to procreate? Is there a such thing as a daddy blogger?

Sarah

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