Last week C, my colleague as well as my Taobao shop partner, went out for shopping. (Yes, occasionally I do shop at the stores). C spotted an Etam’s coat she’d always wanted. It’s 50% off and it suited her perfectly. She turned around and around in front of the mirror to check her image and an expression of uncertain came across her face. “What do you think? Is the price a bit too high?”

       For a moment I wanted to knock her over with a loaf of bread. Taking a deep breath, I said: “You are kidding, aren’t you? You just bought your son a tiny hat at the price of 158 without even blinking your eyes, and this morning you also ordered a toothbrush for him from Amazon. It almost cost you 100 yuan with shipping included. Toothbrush, for God’s sake! I bought my son’s at 30 yuan and I thought it might be too much. And how long have you been craving for that coat? Two months or three?  A winter coat at 300 yuan around for you, and you thought it too expensive? Oh, gosh, you make me like a terrible mother. I’m not kidding. Comparing to you, I were like the evil queen in Snow White. ”

        My words made her chuckled “I’ve never realized that,” she said: “I guess I’d better get this coat or I might really freak you out.”

     “Oh, yeah. You can bet on that.”

       C has a cute boy at the age of 2. It’s her second and she lost her first in miscarriage a few years old. She’s a great mother, although sometimes I personally think she might go a bit too far. With no faith in domestic infant products (can’t blame her there), she bought almost everything from oversea shopping websites for her son. Gradually she has become an expert in baby as well as oversea buy.

       Perhaps coming to a mother’s love, there is no limit. No one could draw a line, point at it and say: Here, that’s enough. But should a mother need to save some love and space for herself?