Treat YOURSELF......

About ten days ago my husband gave me some money to Treat Myself.
We are not rich, we are hardworking and do our best to save as best we can.  It was very kind of him. He acknowledged how hard l am working as a stay at home mum, and also that as a mom on a career break l dont have the money l once had to treat myself to something if l want it.

of course, l did what my own mum was great at doing too.
I bought groceries, new curtains for one of the bedrooms, badly needed, and l bought some gifts that were due: new baby and birthday gifts.

my husband thanked me for buying all these necessary things. Then he gave me a pep talk on learning to splash out, treat myself and not worry about what functional or practical things l could do with the money. He gave me more money and told me to try again...something for me. just for me.

So today, l took my mother in law to our favourite Dunnes Stores.  We floated around the Carolyn donnelly section. which l love. then we hit the Paul Costello and homeware. I knew l was on unsteady ground here so l drifted off for a peek at clothes.
I bought myself a lovely grey jacket. It took my eye immediately. funnily enough once l made up my mind to treat myself it all came back to me fairly quickly and l grabbed a lovely black handbag, two necklaces, a pair of earrings and some very cute vintage style hair clips. i moved quickly to counter before l changed my mind and stocked up on non perishable groceries....

I was paying and the girl at the check out smiled at me and said my purchases were lovely. i explained about the mission to actually treat myself.  So she said, well, l cant put these in just any old dunnes paper bag can l . She produced one of the "foncy" Carolynn Donnelly bags and put my jacket in there and another for the rest of my purchases. She winked at me and said l hope you enjoy them.

As l walked out of the store smiling, my mother in law said "For God sake, dont return them". Cut the tags off right away". Then she added, her usual mantra, "look after yourself always, nobody else will do it for you".