Life is a Rollercoaster

How does it go? Kids drive you around the bend!

Why do they always think that their parents could never have been young or ever of had fun. Well this week Mummy who can do nothing and go know where got an invite to a fancy dress 70’s night, to raise money for a school playgroup.

Yes, an invite a piece of paper that had been hand written with my name and all the details of the night out. That in its self caused great interest and laughter or what short hand would read as LOL on the fashion scene (Laugh Out loud).

So going way back to the 70’s you would have thought that I was antique. What’s that mean I hear the youngsters shrill? As funny or as serious as you like even I couldn’t recall the 70’s look. Then by complete surprise on T.V came an advert, flare trousers, green cross code man, Steve Austin the six million dollar man and one woman I’m not ‘Wonder Woman’.

To top it all off I then get a call from a friend who has also received an invite, carrying on she quips I have a fancy dress shop near to where I live. ‘Oh gosh this is serious’!

I thought it was just a bit of a laugh and now we’re talking fancy dress shops. I’ve probably got more stuff stored in my attic than that shop hires out. But, keep your mouth shut, Mum.

Platform shoes, here you go. Walking on stilts, I can now only just put one foot in front of the other with pumps on.

I know, I won’t   get out of my wheelchair, no one will be able to see what I’m wearing and I will have the highest platforms in the place. Yeah, ok! What if I need the loo?

A few days later I receive an email saying I’ve looked on eBay at a gold dress, like the one pans people ‘ Top Of the Pops’ Dancers used to wear. Not that I don’t like gold dresses but as a larger woman the more covered, the more comfortable I feel.

The kids remain to question, ‘you’re not really thinking of going are you’?  Quietly choking I stutter, yes, why not, it’s a night out. While really I could hear the brainwaves screaming. Dancing Queen, young and sweet only seventeen, oh yeah’. OH YEAH! Its 2009, ok next move, but hold on. Now in deep thought Mamma mia, it’s all the rage. Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan their all in fashion again, singing the 70’s tribute to ABBA a 70’s pop phenomenon.

So there you go, here comes that Dancing Queen! 

If you happen to be at the same party, please don’t tell my kids what Mummy was wearing. ‘They may want to borrow it next week’.

Life really is a Rollercoaster!