I seriously cannot believe how fast this has rolled around. If you’re new to this post, it’s based on a chapter in my book where I theorise that every mother (and indeed every person) has an internal Smug List and Crap List (guess which is longer) on which we mentally keep tabs of everything we feel proud about and everything we feel guilty about.
And I noted that if more of us shared our Crap lists in particular, their potency for making us feel like, well, crap, would be somehow reduced.
As is traditional, I shall go first.
SMUG: I have finally got my act together to enrol my smaller children in swimming lessons, the baby for the first time and the toddler again after taking a break over winter. Even though I loathe going to swimming lessons. LOATHE. IT. Perhaps a hangover from learning to swim myself, something I really didn’t love. Or perhaps because I can’t stand all the chlorine and the getting wet part.
CRAP: I have had a week of very bad Potty Mouth. Seriously, the part of my brain labelled “Words You Are Not To Say Around Your Children” seems to have rebelled against me and basically said fuck off.
Must Try Harder To Be A Role Model. Or, you know, a PROPER PARENT.
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Good for you Amanda. Avoid daycare for as long as possible because it even knocks healthy kids immune systems for a 6 for the first few months. My eldest only went one day pw but she didnt actually go for a few months (and I was paying the fees anyway, as you do) because she would get well enough the day before, go back, get the green nose & ear infection and then take all week to recover. And recover just in time for daycare again. So I took her out for a few months just to let her get over it and stop having to take antibiotics every week.
Smug - 2 friends have just had babies in the last 5 days - one her first - a boy, the other had another little girl. Am so pleased for them both & starting to feel slightly clucky!
Crap - just a teensy bit jealous that they both had super fast, super straightforward deliveries - like, we are talking 20mins!!
Another Crap - (god I'm bad!) even more jealous that they get to spend time at home with their beautiful little newborns whilst I feel like my 2 children are slipping away from me as I'm always working & I'm missing out on their entire childhood ! I suck at this motherhood caper !!