10 August 2010

let me distract you with Maeve while i gloss over a huge faux pas . . .

Greetings all,
Slowly getting life together after burglary & even though i've put my on line Shop on hold for another month, i've got some big orders to complete, so i'm happily sewing away . . . in the mean time i'd like to draw your attention to this cool on line magazine, it's the second issue & all about Spring.  On a wet, cold, windy, Winter day like today in Canberra, it is defrosting my soul.
Now, i can sheepishly confess to one of the dumber things i've done in my life . . . picture this . . . birthday present shopping for one of 15 children's birthday parties we have in August (!!) on the weekend at a city shopping centre with 4 children who had just suffered shoe shopping for mummy (the new cute soft leather ankle boots from Country Road came home with me, if you were wondering).  So while i was juggling my shopping, birthday gifts, groceries & carrying no less than 5 coats . . . i popped by the chemist for some Voltarin (as i predicted i'd need some later that day).  Anyway, after dropping off various children at different parties all over the ACT & into NSW . . . i indeed had a stiff neck & reached for the Voltarin, um, in my shopping bags, no, in my shoe box, no . . . OMG, i've dropped the Voltarin into a birthday bag full of goodies for a 9 YEAR OLD GIRL!!  That was a sleep over too, of course, maybe the parents would find them & need them more than me??!!  Great, so this former pharmacologist made one of the bigger faux pas possible.
So you can all look in the mirror & consider yourself superior to this blogging mummy, unless you've also given muscle relaxants to a child as a birthday gift too??  Seriously, where do i begin to apologise to the parents??!!  Have way better weeks (& weekend birthday parties) than me everyone, love Posie 
PS still fiddling with the font size on my blog, hang in there, from my end it looks like giant print for people with failing eyesight!!

14 comments:

Brenda @ 13 Acres said...

ooh what a shopping trip that was!! I hope you coped ok without your voltarin but then again - you have a new pair of shoes!! That will make you smile for a while! Hoping all is well ;-)

The Creative Beast said...

oh my, that is more funny than faux pas! those parents are probably thrilled to have the 'extra help' ;)

Kelly Casanova said...

I must have failing eyesight - it looks good to me!

yardage girl said...

Great story, and the font looks normal at this end. Hope this week is a better one for you all! Nic

mel @ loved handmade said...

That's hilarious! It's a win win really, if the kids take try them before the parents do it'll be a nice early night all round...glad things are coming together after your break in. I had a quick peek at MAEVE last night, I shall sit down with a cuppa later while all kids are out of the house & have a more leisurely read...

Jodie said...

Oops !

print looks fine from this side.

by marie-nicole said...

That's too funny... words simply cannot express how funny that is!

Hope your aches and pains have disappeared and you are enjoying your new boots!

Heidi said...

Thank god it wasn't birth control pills, I bet those parents were laughing...How did you get your kids to shoe shop with you, mine will hardly online shop with me when I'm picking them out shoes!!

Tania McCartney said...

LOL! You go, girl! That was a doozy! Thank goodness you're so likeable and will easily talk your way out of this!

PS: the font size on this latest post is perfetto.

x

Unknown said...

Well you could have popped in some viagra or something ! Goodness me you poor thing !

Kylie said...

Print looks good - My computer is playing up to and will not let me copy and paste at the moment (little fingers got to it!) Hope that everyone had a great party and thatthe parents underston - wow 15 birthday's what a month. Off to check out the mag:)

Market Girl said...

Too funny, must invite you to a party at m place some time x

Corrie said...

haha I knew you'd trip up one of these days! you can't be perfect all of the time!

that is hilarious!!!!!!! you make me laugh - I'll have to tell Justin that one!!!!!!

corrie:)

posie blogs Jennie McClelland said...

Actually never thought word might get around & make me even more popular with the parents!! He he, love Posie