Tasmiya

1. Some days I can handle everything and other days I can barely manage even the little things.

2. The bad days end with a hot cup of tea and a whole packet of chocolate biscuits. I make sure of that.

3. It’s been months since I’ve been to playgroup. I love the mums and their babies but I just don’t feel like doing the small talk.

4. My youngest will be a year old tomorrow. It’s been the hardest year of my life.

5. I wind down my motherly instincts right about the children’s bedtime so that poor husband juggles all three – nappy changing/toileting/flossing/brushing teeth. He does it beautifully mashaAllah.

6. My maternal instincts mysteriously reappear when it’s cuddle, read a story and prayer time just before lights out.

1. I hid in the kitchen to eat a chocolate bar while the boys were occupied in the toy room.

2. I had no idea I could have so much patience with my children and then there are times when my lack of sabr scares me.

3. It scares my children, too.

4. I secretly hoped my son wouldn’t enjoy school so much so I could have an excuse to just take him out of school and teach him at home. Now he has a new teacher and he is miserable. I feel as though it’s my fault for wishing such a thing on him.

5. I didn’t cook today! Woohoo!

6. My vacuum cleaner has died (again) and I think it’s because I’m a slave driver.

7. I am purposely putting off toilet-training my 2 1/2 year old because I really don’t want to wash a urine or faeces soaked pair of undies again. Toilet training my first child was traumatic.

8. There are days when I wish I worked full-time so I wouldn’t have to deal with the daily emotional outbursts of the children and of this constant feeling of being NEEDED all the time. Do they have to NEED me all the time?

9. It’s nearly 11 pm and instead of sleeping I am blogging. I will complain tomorrow about how many times the little one woke up and how little sleep I managed to get, when all along it’s entirely my fault.