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Embarrassing Photo Tag

Ok, so we might be mad, but my BlogPal Janey at Cupid or Cats and I had a really spectacular(-ly silly!) idea on one conversation we had after reading one of her posts regarding the fact that most kids nowadays don’t get to go through the geeky tween/teen years, instead, going from cute kid to almost perfect made up teen… Thanks to all the media coverage about appearance.

But you know what, if you haven’t gone through the embarrassing stage, there’s a huge part of your character you haven’t built! And with this in mind, we thought what a great idea to dig out and post embarrassing pics of ourselves. Have a giggle yourself at your uncomfortable tween/teen self, and give others a laugh too!!

I’m linking this back to Janey’s original post Embarrassing Photo Tag!

Just to make it fun, and to spread the giggles, I will tag 3 fellow bloggers I would like to do this, just for a laugh! But don’t feel pressurised, by any means, it’s just a giggle!

And, to make it more worthwhile I’m texting a donation to a charity, Cancer Research, for their research towards childhood and teenage Cancers.

Ok, here goes…!

They’ll be in no particular order either, just one embarrassment after another!!

School!

Ok, not so embarrassing, but that’s me, at school!

Uni!

Dark lips and brow days!

Cheesy!

Uh oh! White eyeshadow and glitter gloss!

Curls!

Tail end of college days!

Tween!

Awkward tween years start, before my glasses came on board!

No comment!

Seriously!? The patterned shirt? And I LOVED it!

Goth-ish!

Actually, not goth, but the brows and dark lips still there, at uni, in The USA actually! We were doing a play for schools on a travelling tour!

Frizzzzz!

i was discovering my curls, and yes, the glasses pics are coming out!… Cringe!

No no no!

I was 12, that’s all I’ll say…!

WTF?!

Taken in a photo booth in Canada! Modelling a lovely neckerchief, and strange facial expression!

(burying my head in my hands) there you have it. I’m sure I have many more embarrassing ones, both these are what I laid my hands on last night!

And here’s my donation!

Now to tag some lovely individuals!
Trish from 10 years a single mom
Rekha from Window with a view
My lovely Muslim Latina Friend!

Please take part, have fun, have a giggle!

The Compassion of a Kid

You know my Lil Man, he’s a sensitive soul. He’s a total boy in all respects, active, a bit rough n tumble, but he has a heart, and a big one at that.

This evening, Lil Man did me proud.
We went shopping and at the supermarket they had those little machines where you put a £1 in and receive a bit of tat. “Mummy, I have a pound in my pocket, can I get something from there?” I replied that it was his money, but not to get anything just for the sake of it. (Lil Princess, meanwhile, is trying to wheedle a £1 out of mummy as she doesn’t know where hers is!)
We went, looked, and it was as I had expected, a load of rubbish. So he happily put his £1 away and we went on.
We popped into KFC for a healthy Friday night dinner (!) And as Lil Princess was debating whether to have a Krushems shake or a sundae, Lil Man was looking at the charity collection pot on the counter. “This is for the really poor, isn’t it?” ( it was a world hunger charity of some sort) “Yup, son, it is” and continued with my order. He silently took his £1, along with another one he had in his pocket and dropped it in the pot.
“They need this much more than me.”

Awwww! My heart would burst with pride, if it could! I’m so happy! His heart is bigger than him! And he truly is just like his daddy!

(Lil Princess meanwhile realizes how happy mummy is with her brother, and tries to impress me with all these ideas she has, to help charity… “But I can’t find my £1”!!!)