Oh Noes .... No babby. That would be too simple.
She will be 18 in June and has been badgering her mother for us to go on holiday to Holland where we used to spend her birthdays when she was younger so I have booked a holiday in Holland for the May/June half term which includes her birthday.
Additionally she is off to Poland with the Skool in Feb. Cost of three day trip for one is as much as 5 of us going to Holland for a week!
I have also been paying for driving lessons (£1200 to date and counting ~ test in two weeks) ~ those were her 17th Birthday present.
Yesterday we had rellies visiting so she stayed in bed until noon, grunted hello when they appeared. Ate with us, helping herself to a glass of wine before anyone had been offered it. Finished her grub in double quick time and taking another glass of wine (emptying the bottle) vanished into the gloom of her bedroom and did not reappear until rellies had left ("They are sooooooo boring"). She then announced that one of us had to drive her to Prestatyn to attend a party of someone she has always professed to loath ... Oh and did her mother have any "spare gifts" that she could take as 2 of the girls were celebrating their birthdays. At 10.30 she texted her mother to say she would be staying for a little longer than -planned but someone's mother would bring her home ... could we however wait up as she hadn't taken a handbag and thus had no door key with her. Finally arrived home at ten past midnight.
She then announced that she was "starving" and would her mother get her some supper. No please, kiss my arse or anything.
As she munched the sandwich SWWLTBO had prepared she announced that she and two friends were going to Dublin for a couple of days to celebrate one of the other's 18th AND that she had decided that she would be content with a BBQ party for her friends for her 18th Birthday celebration.
I pointed out that we would be in Holland as requested for her birthday but apparently that doesn't count.
SWWLTBO asked who would be paying for the trip to Dublin and the BBQ party.
THW looked blank ~ "You surely don't begrudge me?"
Seeing my face and in an attempt to head me off SWWLTBO asked if the THW had made any inroads into seeking employment during the summer when she finishes school and before she goes to uni.
"Oh No! I don't want a job .... It would be too restricting .... I want to enjoy the summer ~ after all I'm not taking a gap year"
I went feckin' ballistic.
Today she has persuaded her mother to take her shopping for clothes suitable for Poland in February.
I am not happy .... other than that I feel I have made my feeling known in very basic language and she is now not speaking to me.
Apparently I am bent on ruining EVERYTHING.
I shall fvcking swing for her!
