The dds have a friend to stay overnight. She is lovely, she has visited a lot before, though not since we moved house a couple of months ago. I know she has been really excited about coming and we have had several aborted attempts at getting them together.
Anyway - she came with a carrier bag full of overnight stuff, and a carrier bag full of sweets! No exaggeration, there must have been about £10 worth of stuff in there. I met the mum halfway because of the distance and by the time we got back to the house they had had strawberry laces, a milky way and fruit pastilles. Since being here the girl has eaten two Kinder Buenos and shared another pack of pastilles and some butterscotch sweets. I think there may have been more too. And she has still got a box of maltesers left!
She is lovely, and very generous - has shared all these with my dds. And for them, it is only a one-off, so I don't mind them having so much sugar (though I daresay I will be scraping them off the walls before bedtime ). But I can't help but wonder about the state of her health. She is a naturally skinny person but is developing a fat tum, and has several fillings, and only likes fatty, sugary processed food, which I know is what she gets at home.
Well I guess I have answered my own question - it's none of my business really! But she is nice and I hate to think that she is going to turn into a fat, pasty teenager