Its competition time.....

November has been a very busy month for the Sophie4Sophie family!

we've had birthdays, Meet ups, and lots of spending money! LOL

As December is going to be an even busier month for us all, we've decided to close the S4S doors from the 29th November - 25th January! (a 2 month break! Whoohooo!!!) so please, if you want to order anything for the festive season, don't wait till the last minute to order!!! as we might not be able to guarantee delivery!

but throughout this break, we will be sitting on our butts working on new ideas! we already have a few but we're after some more! we thought the best way to find out some new ideas would be to ask... YOU GUYS!!!!

so we've come up with a plan.. which we think will work super duper!

A BLOG COMP!!

so here's what you gotta do...

1 - become a follower/reader of our blog. (if you already are, YAY - Thanks!)

2 - become a Twitter Follower (if your signed up already! if you're not.. why aren't you?!!!!!)

3 - leave a comment on this post, saying "hi..."

4 - included in comment, give us your ideas for future Sophie4Sophie products!

5 - let us know if you'd like to become an exclusive Sophie4Sophie Reviewer/tester for our new products! (by contacting us here!)

6 - for extra entries, you can ReTweet this blog post mentioning " Sophie4Sophie " in the tweet.

7 - write a short blogpost and link back to this!

8 - if you're a facebook user, please become a fan here and leave a comment on our wall (every entry counts!!!)

thats it!! (thats it... thats effort!)

Right... for the prize.... for entering this competition, you will be in the chance of winning:

A super cool, Sophie4Sophie Dress of your choice! (if your a mumma to a boy.. you can have some funky Sophie4Sophie pants instead!!) RRP £23-32

2 x Sophie4Sophie kinky bibs (one normal and one Kinky Katcher!) RRP £16.50

and also... a super cool 20% discount to send to 3 friends who you think might like to order from us!

does this sound like a cool competition or what??!!!

all entries will be counted up after the closing date, allocated a number starting with "1" and so on.. depending on the number of entrants! we will then put this into a random number generator. the winner will be the Chosen number!

We will display the image of this generated winning number and will inform the winner by email (if you provide us with your email address!!!) & by posting it on here!

CLOSING DATE IS: 15th December

(we will not be providing the prizes in time for Christmas! sorry!!)

please please enter, We really want to know what kind of things you'd like to see from Sophie4Sophie, even the most crazy random ideas (these are normally the best ones!!!)

thanks so much!

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the shocks of being a sneak

I've been working really hard the last few days, I had such a back log of work which needed to be done. The kids have suffered quite badly, I've been stuck upstairs sewing and they've been down stairs making chaos and going slightly insane from cabin fever!
So when they asked if they could play at a friends house (friend was at the front door) i said ok, I was just about to go into town to post some things and said, I would call the friends mum when i got back. (The friend lives literally opposite my house, i can see his front door from my front room window!)

I spent a good 30 mins in the Post office, there was a cue as long as my street! took ages to sort out which postage options i wanted to use.. scared of overseas packages going missing and not sure if i should trust the normal 1st class recorded! I did send the secret sale things by recorded delivery, so please if your waiting for your clothes, let me know when they arrive & so sorry for any delays!

After the post office,  I went into Boots to collect Sophie's newly ordered toothpaste! guess what flavour???
yup, that's right! In The Blooming Night Garden flavour!! (mildly minty)

after Boots, Soph, 4yo and I decided to stroll around the corner to the Supermarket!.. i was concentrating on Soph, wanting to stop at every shop window and have a peek.. when 4yo said "Hello.. R.... (6yo's name)" I thought.... huh???? "R...." what is he doing in town?? i looked up and saw BOTH of my children, and their friend hanging about outside the supermarket by the benches where all the teenagers hang about.

Well you can imagine what happened next.. I SHOUTED so loudly, the teenagers started leering and mocking me! I was fuming.... What the heck where my 2 kids.. (6yo & 8yo boys) doing in the town????
i said, "where is your mum 'T'??" he said, "Not Here" in a fooking sarcastic voice... *Grrr my blood is boiling* I told 'T' to GO HOME NOW.. and ordered my children to follow me into the supermarket.

8yo's wailing commenced, "I'm sorry mummy..... I'm so sorry mummy" (Guilt is a tough thing) I punished them both by making them carry my shopping baskets and purposefully picking heavy items! (hehe)
also at the same time, ramming into them how disappointed i was, how dangerous it was to be out on their own, kidnapper shock stories, etc... the crying was getting louder!

I told anyone who looked at me about what had just happened, just to make 6yo & 8yo feel even more ashamed. they got a telling off from them all. Good I thought.

Walking home, we stopped at the newsagents and bought some sweets, and lollies! (god knows why Soph & 4yo wanted an Ice Lolly??! crazy kids!) 6yo & 8yo DIDN'T get anything, I told them to wait by the door of the shop. here came some even more LOUD cries and faces of guilt.

as we got in the door 8yo said to me, "I guess I've got to go to my room now, as my punishment?"
umm... "NOPE.... i think you can tidy up the whole of the living room!!" (BTW.. you couldn't see the carpet before we went out! so not an easy task!)
all through tidying up though, 8yo was bawling his heart out. but also, complaining of a really really bad foot?
"its hurting so much mummy, i cant stand up... I cant walk... mummy...."
it might sound harsh, but i told him to 'shut up' and just get on with it. he got so bad, he even started chocking on his own breathe (you know those kind of cries that worry you when your baby does it!) but i was adamant, "No.. 8yo, just get on with it"
after about 15 mins of mummy Sargent major laying on the biggest guilt trip and punishment known by my kids, the living room was spotless (almost makes me wonder why they aren't more naughty more often!)

8yo calmed down, I told him, the only reason why his foot hurt was because of his guilt, manifesting as a physical pain.
I know exactly when 8yo is lying, (been taking lessons from sky1's 'Lie To Me' programme! I'm now officially a PRO!!)
his foot no longer hurt and was quite relaxed! (OMGosh, he really is an over the top drama queen!) hew asked for a cuddle and i gave him a great big huge one. i hate being so cruel to him, but i needed him to understand what he'd done was appalling and despicable behaviour. he is NEVER going to play with his friend over the road again.

6yo all through out took it on the chin.. (God.. he's just like his dad!!) he did the cleaning, the tidying, the sorting out, all without a peep! he didn't cry once! I was just as hard on him as I was on 8yo, but Nothing, no emotion or forgiveness. this drove me crazy, I wanted him to show that he knew what he'd done as wrong, but NO... argh... nothing phased him. how could i get it through to him what he'd done was wrong??? without resorting to corporal punishment or extraction of his fave toy of the week?? (which is a stuffed elephant! he even made it a Halloween outfit!!)

so now... the question on my mind is:
"was i too hard on my boys???  and is it ok for them to be outside the house on their own?"

i have let 8yo pop to the local newsagents or at some desperate times, Boots & the supermarket. but all on express terms and he always takes a mobile phone with him, so i can call him constantly!
did 8yo think that he could go? because I'd given him permission to on these occasions? or was he just being naughty?
I asked him why didn't he say to his friend "I'm not allowed to go down town on my own?" and he said, he didn't tell him, as he wanted to go. he wanted to be 'cool' with his mate!
6yo said he only went because the other 2 were going and didn't want to be left alone at friends house?

I then thought about calling the friends mum? should i ring her up and accuse her son of leading my boys astray? (she allows her son free reign, literally.. he's always wondering around the streets till 9/10pm)
I didn't ring her, as I'm a scaredy cat! she's a common pikey gypsy lady  brash woman!

but then, I allowed them to go to the friends house, I was aware of the dangers of them getting up to mischief, but in the friends house!! not on the fooking streets of the town!

what would you do?

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