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Let me get this absolutely clear – set it out straight for those of you in the back who may not have been playing attention – I am a full time Mum. Yes I may work BUT I am still a mum even when I’m away from the house. I don’t suddenly get to . . . → Read More: The Friday Rant Club – I am still a full time Mum What a day.
One of those days where I am I pulled in too many directions – exhilarating in some ways, frustrating in others.
Have I managed to do any of those different roles even adequately?
Who knows.
Work hasn’t been great this week (for that read utterly nuts, unremittingly . . . → Read More: Frazzled I don’t know if I’m a bit of a heartless cow or just good at compartmentalising but I don’t get the whole maternal guilt thing.
There I’ve said it.
I don’t get that mothers feel guilty when they leave their children and obsess over every choice they have made and beat themselves . . . → Read More: Does maternal guilt really exist? 
I’m increasingly coming around to the view that the only way to get ahead is to have a strong support network at home – yes, women are making great leaps forward BUT if I look around me at the women one layer up from in my career they generally have a husband at home. . . . → Read More: Can women have it all? Do men have it all? Or do none of us? I’ve always thought that one of the benefits of having gone back to work into my male ghetto so quickly after the girls was born was that I missed out on an awful lot of Mummy interaction. Yes I missed the opportunity to make friends, to share experiences but I also missed a whole . . . → Read More: Enough with the judgemental claptrap
Yes I know part time work has made my life a million times better – I see more of the girls, I get less resentful when I have a week like this one and don’t see them for days in a row and life has a one day reset button. It is a good . . . → Read More: The Friday Rant Club – the double whammy penalty of part time work 
Walk into any bookshop, have a browse around Amazon or a quick search on the internet and you’ll find a long queue of people ready and willing to tell you the correct way to raise your child. They can solve any ‘problem’ in a week and each has their own set of rules and . . . → Read More: Is it time for us to start trusting our parenting instincts? As you may have noticed, things around here have been a bit of a misery-fest. 2011 did its absolute best to get what had been a fairly rubbish year to go out with a bang.
Thanks for that 2011 – really appreciated your efforts.
And then, despite having very low expectations, 2012 . . . → Read More: Every cloud has a silver lining… or something
Sorry I haven’t posted much lately – there’s been various stuff going on that has cluttered up my mind and made me struggle to work out what I want to write and what, when I’ve written it, I can post on here. We are back in the house – it is probably 95% . . . → Read More: Breaking through the blogger’s block 
No I’m not divorcing Mr Muddling and announcing that my preference has changed gender. Although that would probably send my page views rocketing through the roof momentarily, must make a mental note of that for next time inspiration flags. No, I’m still me but I have realised that I am lacking something all my . . . → Read More: Could someone please find me a wife  |
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