Before I was a fully fledged Mama I used to hear the expression ‘pick your battles’ a lot and be totally bemused as to what that really meant.
On the day when you’re running late to collect your daughter from gym, the car is at the garage being fixed, it’s freezing, it’s raining and you have two children to walk 10 minutes to make the pick up, you choose your battles as to whether the purple watering can is coming along for the ride…
Three Year Old one, mummy nil. This was a battle I chose not to pick!
#wickedwednesdays 27.4.16
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I love the way he knows he has won too xx #wickedwednesdays
I know! Brought down by a Small Boy ?
hahaha! It is so much easier to pick your battles….
He’s such a cutie x
It certainly is! He proceeded to fill the watering can with stones and then tip them all out on the carpet when we got home! AGGH! At least there were no tears, at least from him anyway! ? Thank you – he’s cuter when he keeps his tongue in his mouth IMO!
Small boy -1, Mummy-0! Its so true, the amount of crap we end up taking out just because its easier is unreal! x
I was also so keen not to do this with my girls, but third time around, pretty much anything is welcome with us if it spares me the grief! #worndown ?
In fairness that watering can looks cute! My son is like this too. On our school run he would carry different things daily and by the end of the week my bag is full of random things that is if I remember to clean my bag at the end of the week =P
#wickedwednesdays
Yep – cute watering can and he did carry it himself (part of the conditions of the negotiation!) walk would have been a lot shorter without it though! He was stopping every two minutes to fill it with stones! ?
Sometimes? You just gotta give in bablar. Thanks so much for making me smile and joining in with Wicked Wednesdays. Have a great bank holiday and see you next week! x
Happy long weekend! Whoop! xx
Yep sometimes it is just not worth the hassle is it? x #wickedwednesdays
It really isn’t – what’s a watering can compared to a complete meltdown ?
I feel your pain here. Mine are older and I still compromise. Sigh. Don’t think daddy has won in years lol Sorry for the late #wickedwednesday
I know – I think this is the start of a slippery slope?