Family Affairs and other matters

My daughter has been collecting photographs of gorgeous hairstyles. I hadn’t realised why until yesterday. Apparently she has to get her hair done before her father picks her up from my house for the wedding. I offered to do it for her but she said “mum, are you KIDDING? You’d make it look rubbish on purpose”. I SO wouldn’t. I think short pink hair with shaved sides would look really good with her gorgeous grey dress.

We went to book her appointment yesterday – “I’m having my hair done for my dad’s wedding” she told them with me standing next to her and it was sort of fine when they looked at me in a puzzled way, but also sort of really really weird. Then she called her dad to tell him that it was going to cost £50 (!!!) and he said “fine, but ask your mother to pay”.

Expecting me to pay for my daughter’s hairstyle for my ex-husband’s wedding to Builder Bloke’s ex-wife just about says everything I need to know about where I stand in the equation.

Precisely nowhere.

Needless to say lovely daughter texted him to say “I don’t think it would be fair to ask mum, she might get upset”.

Thankfully, I’ve got the most perfect day on Saturday for MAJOR distraction purposes….I have to go out early so won’t get to see her looking beautiful for her father’s wedding which is probably for the best because it will kill me and then I’d cry and spoil it for the kids. Instead I’ll be at the CyberMummy Conference (I’m sure there is a perfectly good explanation but what are the CyberDaddy’s doing with their day?) where I will get to meet lots of my invisible friends in the flesh and learn what an RSS feed is (yes, I know that after three years I should get all that stuff). Even better for total distraction tactics is that I’ve been asked to speak which means I’ll be shitting myself for the entire day and not thinking about my daughter’s expensive hair style at all……

Just perfect.