urgh. i wish babs would just
duck off with the "i have to buy my kids the exact same number of gifts and also spend the exact same amount of money on them because FAIRNESS". grow the
duck up. just because babs, at 44 years old, would have a tantrum if she discovered that wet san had spent a penny more on Claire than her, or they didn't have a matching amount of presents to open. her kids aren't toddlers, and are both able to understand that - for example - babs could spend an equal amount in them both, although not down to the last
bleeping penny, and ethan may have more gifts to open because, as a "tween", erin is more likely to request more expensive gifts, whereas ethan is still into toys. whichever way it worked out and whichever child ends up with a couple more gifts than the other, or has an extra 57p spent on them, they are both perfectly able to cope with that - and if they are more focused on that than their presents, babs only has herself to blame and highlights her poor parenting skills.
no wonder babs needs a excel spreadsheet to work out her spending when she is so
bleeping petty she makes a huge mathematical equation out of the whole thing. she's usually perfectly happy to spend far more on erin - the advent calendar filled with "tween" treats, for example, where the empty pouches themselves cost more than ethan's entire advent calendar and the way that she constantly treats erin to clothes and accessories etc, while buying ethan anything extra that isn't a christmas/birthday present gift "breaks all her rules", the time she bought erin a fancy disney loungefly bag whereas ethan got a loungefly fake from home bargains, ndad although he loved it, it shows that her whole "fairness" and "treating the kids equally" only applies when it involves ensuring the afterthought never receives anything unless the golden child also recieved a gift, whereas erin can be bought gifts and go on holidays and theatre trips etc without babs giving ethan a second thought. and she absolutely won't be spending the same amount on both kids. she's already stated that she will be hiding that loungefly bag she was gifted as a christmas present for ethan, so whatever that bag is worth will be removed from the total as though she bought it herself, as opposed to the #gifted loungefly bag that erin was given immediately as a random treat. she makes such a huge deal about treating the kids equally as though it somehow conceals her blatant favouritism and the way she treats them so differently, and if the babettes are fooled by her excel spreadsheet, they are more deluded and gullible than i imagined.
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