Random ramblings

My mum always says "God pays debts without money" and this evening I saw this in action on a small scale. For the past few weeks a little boy has been trying to hurt my daughter when they go out to play. He has made her stop taking her new bike outside as he makes fun of her wearing a helmet, and he keeps saying her helmet is a boy's helmet as it has cars on it (she loves cars, and wants to be a 'car fixer, a lady one, because they can be ladies or mans'). Not content with that he knocked her over with his space hopper when they were playing on those, so now she doesn't want to take that out to play either. The grown up in me tells her to ignore him and play with what she likes, knowing his mum is dealing with it, but the mum in me wants to yell at him to go away and cuddle my baby until she is happy again. He obviously picked on the wrong girl tonight though, as he upset her, she ran her scooter over his toes and made him cry. My own girl felt sorry for him and took him to his mum, how forgiving is that. I just felt that now he knows how much it hurts to be on the receiving end, perhaps he will ease up on my girl. Time will tell.

Being completely new to this blogging lark, I'm not really sure what to write, hence the title 'random ramblings'.
My daughter and I are about to go shopping for clothes, and so she can spend her birthday money. We tried yesterday in town but there was nothing really, and everything she liked was not available in her size, so she settled on a pair of plastic clog things bedecked with plastic jewels, a ballerina colouring set and a fluffy pink pony, very important things when you are 4, I suppose. We are going to try again today but is a supermarket instead of town. Nana is coming too, and hopefully we will leave laden down with pieces of sartorial elegance which are hardwearing and washable for the modern 4 year old about town.
Here's to retail therapy for any age.