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National Bank Holiday for Mums only
Vote Now for National Bank Holiday for Mums Only
When did you last have a night out?
When did you last do something JUST for you?
When did you last spend a whole day ‘girlyfying’ yourself with Gok Wan style shopping and lunch with your girlfriend?
I did it last week…twice!
After two long dry years with hardly a girlfriends in sight, I escaped! And ran like hell!
Now I know just what the hell I have missed for two years.
The baron island I usually stroll around, that of nappies, dishes and washing were miles behind me as I swaggered, deliriously through Reading shopping centre, Mummy duties lay well over the ocean as I strolled staring longingly at the clothes, jewellery, and kitchen gadgets.
I have recently found my femininity (after years of carrying the Tom Boy label) and I was ready to be possessed by Gok Wan and to be held to ransom to spend as much as possible.
My Mummy eyes were excited by all the beautiful maxi-dresses, feminine scarves and lace that I could see. I was ready to take off the Tom Boy flesh and release the new feminine beast inside. I hadn’t realised how much not only my mental identity had been affected by the sudden role change into Mummy but also my attention to myself. “I want Pickles to be inspired by me” I keep telling Hubby. “A Tom Boy isn’t really inspiring”.
You see for years I was the Tom Boy out of all 5 girls. Mum was an inspiration though, she was beautiful, feminine and sexy when she wanted to be and that is what I want to teach my daughter. So here starts the practice of what I have been teaching myself for the last two years…all about style.
On the way home, after stopping to make our own perfume, we were chatting about how girly we felt. Gok Wan, you make sense. You possessed me for a day and it worked. I have beautiful clothes and a pair of shoes and a gorgeous, ‘I am so drooling’ scarf. (I have a mad desire to collect scarves, I love them and wear them all seasons – back home in OZ I would never get away with it, but here in Blighty…well, just don’t tell the Hubby I bought another one).
I found my spark, my girlishness, my sexy ‘come get em hubbyness’ thanks to a break away from changing nappies, mentoring and cleaning up behind Pickles. I didn’t have to think about what I had to feed her for lunch or dinner and all the rest that comes with parenting. It was sooooooo wonderful to have a day off and hang out with ‘me’ for a change.
As Mums, I hereby vote that we have a national Bank Holiday just for us. Then we can all go shopping together and make perfume, have lunch, drink way too much coffee and just be ourselves. An investment into our health and sanity!
VOTE NOW!!
Thanks for voting and enjoy your feminine freedom.
Who am I and where did I lose my identity?
Music has always had a cathartic affect on me, one I had forgotten for two years but I never dreamed I would find ‘me’ again by simply bringing it back into my life. And if you told me that it would give me back my identity two years after becoming a Mummy I would never have believed you. Surely I need a years psychotherapy for that?
Read MoreThe big question: NLP and Parenting
The sun is up, the birds are out and its only 4.50am. How dare they wake me up the morning after my first night out in ages!!!! That was just the start of my hangover day. Why is it that alcohol affects you so much more when you stop drinking it so often?
Then Pickles decides that today will be a grumpy day so all things normally easy, become more of a challenger for Mummy and I have to reach into my ‘bag-of-tricks’ to ensure things go easier on me. Then to top it off over morning tea with friends I was asked a most serious question? A question my brain just could not contemplate with the leftover Daiquiri and Lemon Sorbet Vodka Cocktails swooshing around up there. Our friends asked what I would consider to be the most important NLP technique that I use the most as a Parent. Although I knew the answer straight away, it needed words, lots of them, to give a good explanation and example, words which seemed mushed between strawberries and vodka and not much sleep.
Read MoreThank You Timmy – A Parenting Tip
Dear Timmy and Friends of Timmy Time
Thank you for your generous display of enthusiasm and for your delicious sense of humour. If not for your encouragement, your cheekiness, your elevated outlook on what is wrong and of course your endless use of the word “baaa” in many guises I would not have at least 20 minutes a day of tranquil Mummy time.
Thank you Timmy and Friends, you are simply wonderful for both Pickles and Me.
P.S. Let me know what TV shows help create your time out and we’ll do a poll!
Read MoreThe way to BLISS via Lemon Cupcake Road
Woke up this morning after a very heavy session with my stylist yesterday and needed some emotional therapy. Pickles was in need of some yummy tummy food and I was desperate for something delicately delicious.
So this is what we got up to this morning.
My road to pure bliss:
Lemon Cupcake Recipe
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