A Ploy By Princess

If there's one thing my kids have always been great at, it's eating their fruit and veg.
Salad will never pass their lips, but when they're happily troughing their way through courgettes, peppers, broccoli, strawberries, melon, apples and the rest, that never worries me.

So my discovery yesterday was a bit of a shock.

Every day for the past couple of weeks, we've got in from the school run and The Princess has announced she's going upstairs to read her book and eat her grapes, saved in her lunchbox expressly for that purpose. Fine by me.

So when I emptied the waste bin in her room yesterday, I was taken aback to discover it was a quarter full of the damn things. (Grapes, not books.)

My initial reaction was anger. After all, she had been lying to me. But then I had to admire her for trying. She obviously hadn't thought it through, but it did show a degree of creative thinking.

I asked her, later, why she'd done it. She said she'd gone off grapes but didn't want to tell me in case I "enjoyed" buying them and would be upset. Bless.

I couldn't be cross with her after that. So we had a cuddle and a giggle - until I told her she still wasn't allowed sweets for a few days because, after all, she had told fibs. Then she pulled away, scowled at me and went back upstairs. I'm still not sure how I turned into the bad guy.......