Who Can Really Say How Much a Mug is Worth Anyway?!? | How Much Did I Spend Last Week? Sep 16-22, 2024
I blame Cecilia Blomdahl and beluga whales for this
Monday
There’s a lot to be said for the power of guilt, isn’t there? Us Irish know all about this – but, as I’ve said before, us women know even more about it. And when you have Irish women, sure, the guilt is all we know. All we feel. It’s our driving force! Our raison d’etre!
What I’m trying to say is: today I decide to keep Atlas home with me for the day, switching his babysitting this week from today to tomorrow, and cancelling his at-home OT tomorrow.
Is this my best ever decision?! Possibly not, but I felt so bad seeing how happy he was when we got home from North Carolina, and even worse when he wakes up first thing this morning and starts wailing, “mama?! MAMA!” as if he’s afraid I’ll have disappeared during the night.
So we basically spend the day cuddling and watching TV and playing outside and cuddling some more, and I tell him I love him probably more times than is healthy, and when I put him down for his nap I read him an unprecedented number of books and stroke his head and tell him how much I love him and that I’ll never leave him again. (Slightly regret this now as it’s clearly a lie – sure, in three short months I’ll be fecking off to give birth and possibly staying in hospital for four whole nights! How will either of us cope?!)
While he’s down for his nap, I soothe my soul by scrolling through Gaiamika’s newly released range of mugs – or cozy cups, as they’re called on the website. It’s a Swedish brand I recently hunted down after honestly hours trawling through Cecilia Blomdahl’s YouTube comments to see if she’d ever told people where she gets her lovely mugs. As it happens, they’re from Gaiamika.
It turns out, they’re also pretty pricy, at 590,00 kr each – which works out at around $58 – but I decide they can be my Christmas present (from, er, Brandin) and order myself two, hesitating only for a second when I see it’s a further $40 for shipping. ($151.58)
Could I have found similar mugs in the US? Possibly. Would they have meant as much to me as these ones, knowing, as I know, that my most favourite influencer ever shops from the same, er, muggery?! No, they wouldn’t.
Look how cute that cup is! And she’s drinking out of it and looking at beluga whales AT THE SAME TIME! Truly, a charmed life.
Anyway, also while Atlas is down for a nap – because it turns out buying mugs doesn’t take that long – I manage to write a piece, which is no mean feat when all I want to do is gaze at him on the baby monitor (when did you stop using a baby monitor for your babies?! I mean, your toddlers?!) and feel bad.
Atlas is just waking up as Brandin gets home, so I get him up, changed and dressed and then hand him over while I head back to my desk to record an episode of the pod with Bea, which I then get edited before we have a late dinner of chicken and rice.
Atlas is in bed by 8pm and we clean up, read and watch TV for a bit before heading to bed ourselves.
Daily total: $151.58
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