Miss Frugal seems to be growing up very quickly and I’m only a year or so away from the dreaded Kevin and Perry moment when she’ll turn 13 and I’ll be the parent of a teenager! I’m not even thinking about that just yet though, I’m just enjoying the fact that she still wants to spend time with me.
As much as I love the fact that she likes to do things with me, I think a lot of it’s down to the fact that I try to do things with her that I know she likes to do. She’s not going to want to spend time with me if I’m sat on my phone or at my laptop so I do things that I know she’ll enjoy doing.
We do things like mini home spa nights where I let her paint my nails and we do each others make up.
She likes drawing so we sometimes go somewhere just to sketch and I even learnt to loom band with her because it’s something she enjoys doing.
Sometimes, we make mocktails together and sit and drink them in the garden with our coats on while she catches me up on all of her gossip and I savour every moment because I know that it probably won’t always be like this.
Another thing we’ve been enjoying doing together is watching TV which sounds off I know! We don’t watch any of the soaps or any other shows like that but we do love to watch the Great British Bake Off and we love a good girly film night.
The problem is that over the past year or so we’ve been having a girly film night once a week so we’ve seen a lot of the films that we want to see and it got to the point where we were spending more time choosing a film than actually watching it so we thought we’d see if we could find a box set that we could enjoy watching together.
Thankfully, we have Netflix so we have plenty to choose from and after a couple of stops and starts with different TV shows, we finally settled on 90210 which is rated 12+ so she’s almost there. She is loving watching it and actually, I am too (don’t tell anyone though). It’s very similar to the 90210 that I used to watch when I was her age in that it covers lots of current teen issues with lots of glamour and romance thrown in.
We’ve had some very interesting conversations off the back of the show and she often pauses it to ask me to explain something to her – whether it’s something she’s heard on there that she doesn’t really understand or just to have a chat about the way someone is behaving. She has the remote control and it’s great the way she pauses to discuss things.
Now I just need ideas for our next box set as we’ll be finished with 90210 soon – there’s so many on there that we’re a bit spoilt for choice so and ideas would be greatfully received!
Disclosure: Although we’ve had Netflix for several years, we’ve recently been asked to be part of their #StreamTeam to share our love of Netflix with you. I received an Ipad mini as a welcome to the #StreamTeam but this doesn’t infuence my opinion in any way – I love them as much as I did before. 🙂
That's lovely to have quality time with your daughter. I didn't realise the Kevin and Perry moment didn't happen before 13 though, I'm sure it's arrived here with 7yo.
How fab, don't be put off too much with the teen yaers. Chloe and I are really close and so far at nearly 15 we have had no massive teenage changes. I am a really new covert to netflix- currently on my free months trial as I have read such great things from #streamteam bloggers
This is really nice. It remember my young days.
I think (if you are lucky! 😀 ) it can be a really lovely age too! We are big H20 fans in our house if she hasn't seen that yet? We love Netflix! 😀
I've just been enjoying watching 90210 on Netflix and I'm 32! I also liked Heartland, Dance Academy and Make It or Break It, they're entertaining teen dramas even if you're not particularly into horses or ballet or gymnastics!
You have such a lovely relationship. I love having girly days with Amy and she's only three. How much fun we'll have when she's older…
Awww how lovely. i like the cocktail idea 🙂
We love Netflix too. xx
This is pretty awesome. I have evenings like this with my 5 year old too.