But the year isn’t even up yet! Dang! At the beginning of the year, we bought T1 a super cheap pair of school shoes which lasted all of 3 weeks. The moment we washed it, it shrunk and she could no longer fit her big feet into them. A real shame as they were the prettiest white canvas Mary Janes. Off trotted the Hubs into Adidas to get her PROPER white leather sneakers. We bought them slightly larger and she really did look like Ronald McDonald in white. They didn’t have any more feminine looking girls shoes unfortunately. We figured, okay, perhaps if we paid a bit more, the shoes will last?

Nonsense!!!

They have lasted 7 months. Yes, 7 short months. Is that the shoe life of children school shoes these days? We’re talking Adidas here. There are holes everywhere where the upper shoe has detached itself from the rubber sole thus if she stepped into a puddle, her socks would be drenched. I was livid! The Hubs suggested that perhaps it is the way she walked (backwards?) or who knows what she got up to at school. Kick boys? Remove her shoes to use as a pencil eraser? Glide on walls? Who knows indeed!

Now, we’ve got to go on a shoe hunt again. I wish that school wasn’t so strict and allowed the kids more flexibility for shoes. As it stands, the girls shoes have to be absolutely white without any logos or colour. If they become a prefect later on, they can switch these to black leather shoes, again without any logos showing. But what would really be perfect was if they allowed girls shoes to be lighter in weight, yet durable; looking simple but pretty at the same time.

Maybe I should be a school shoe designer! Seriously, if you’re concerned about your child’s feet and what they’re covered and protected with, watch this video to educate yourself on how you should find the right size shoes for your child’s feet. Too big and you’ll have problems. Too small and you’ll still have problems. And problems like pigeon toed feet, flat feet, ingrown toe nails, painful feet, deformed feet etc are seriously problems I can live without!!!

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.

She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

A beautiful life without limits.

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Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.