Snow Angels, Secrets and Christmas Cake by Sue Watson

Author:Sue Watson [Watson, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance, Humor
ISBN: 1909490768
Amazon: B00O4GEROG
Goodreads: 23341170
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

14

Yummy Mummies in Knock-off Gucci

Tamsin

I think what struck me most about being ‘poor’ at this time of year was that everyone else seemed to be ‘doing Christmas’ except me. The bakery was all about the festive season, with glittery toppings and sprigs of holly and snowflake-shaped cookies. The TV was sheer torture, with commercials for glittering liqueurs, breathtaking chocolates and delicious perfume ads where you didn’t recall the perfume, just the beautiful woman wandering through it. There was no escape, and for someone who was used to having the money to just buy this stuff, it was a special kind of hell.

I thought about how different this year would be from last, I’d always insisted on the family eating together when we could – and Christmas was the epitome of this. I loved that we spent time together on Christmas Day, but the rest of the year we all seemed to go our separate ways. I wanted to be a ‘proper’ family and chat about our day over a meal together. But often it would end up with Simon and I at the table alone as the kids gobbled their food and abandoned us. Hugo would be prostrate on the sofa, watching something inappropriate on TV and Hermione would disappear to her bedroom.

Before they broke up for the Christmas holidays the kids were from a wealthy family. They didn’t have the usual student worries about paying for rent and food because we covered all that and more. But their new term in January would be quite different... and thinking about it – that might just be the making of them. Only the day before, Hugo had made everyone beans on toast at Sam’s – something he’d never have done before. Hugo never cooked and wouldn’t have touched baked beans. ‘I need to practice,’ he’d said. ‘No more take-aways and restaurants when I go back to Uni – we can’t afford it now.’ I felt so proud and hearing that I realised my son would be fine and step up to this new, challenging time ahead.

Being a mum and going through my own kids’ growing pains had made me aware of Jacob’s problems too. Of course Sam denied he was having problems, but I’d collected him from school and he was always on his own. Sam knew that he didn’t make friends easily and some of the kids made fun of him but was so close to it she hadn’t really looked at the situation from both sides.

Before I moved in, I’d sometimes walked to school with Sam and Jacob before meeting Phaedra or Anouska for coffee. I’d seen the withering looks from the designer-clad yummy mummies hanging around in the playground in nasty little clusters. Of course they weren’t in ‘real’ designer, it was all rather faux. But I suspected their snobbery and meanness was far more real than their cheap knock-off Gucci handbags.

Sam was attractive, a little younger, but wore huge, baggy jumpers and sometimes even flip flops or sandals in winter.

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