Tasmiya

Confessions of a Stay at Home Mother - Gym Junkie EDITION (I CAN’T BELIEVE I MADE THAT TYPO!)

Monday, June 9th, 2008 | Confessions | No Comments

1. I love going to the gym but there are days when I go so I have an excuse for not doing the housework.

2. I bags machines now even though I get very annoyed when others do the same thing.

3. I have a secret loathing of a particular woman after she refused to move ONE STEP out of the way because she was in the middle of her set - we all take our gym seriously, lady but you really need to take a chill pill.

4. I wish my children could be half as well behaved at home as they are at the gym’s creche.

5. If I’m not mind numbingly sore the next day and for three days after, it wasn’t a good gym day.

Confessions of a Stay at Home Mother - Driving Edition

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 | Confessions | 2 Comments

1. I listen to 612 ABC Brisbane for the news but secretly enjoy the music they play.

2. If I see a person in the car behind me become increasingly annoyed with my slow speed, I slow down even more.

3. I will ensure I am close to the car in the other lane so that said annoyed person can’t overtake me.

4. I stick to the speed limit.

5. Most of the time.

6. The one time I have gotten a speeding ticket, I tried to blame it on husband (see? that’s your head there over the seat..see the bald head - that’s you…remember when you went to the gym so early that morning? Yeah, that’s you there - it almost worked until my mother had a look at the pic and remarked, “but that’s your scarf and you went to work on Saturday!”)

7. I secretly wish to get pulled over for a random breath test.

8. I think there should be a separate roads for trucks.

9. I ride the clutch.

Confessions of an Overwhelmed Stay at Home Mother

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 | Confessions, Parenting | 5 Comments

So you know how we (and by “we” I mean most parents) say to forget about the housework and cooking and play with the children instead? Nevermind if the house is a mess as long as the children are happy!

Well it actually doesn’t work that way sometimes.

Yes, we should be prioritising and most of the time the cleaning can wait but if we always do this then we end up living in squalor (at least that how it gets at my house.) Here’s the thing with my children - when they are hungry they whinge, whine and cry often. They are not satisfied with the two minute noodles no matter how much I try with them; yes they will eat them but it’s never enough to satisfy the hunger. My children like to wear clean clothes (I know! It’s madness isn’t it?) and one of my boys hates to wear the same thing two days in a row unless it’s a tattered and threadbare tracksuit that should have been tossed out long ago but that’s a story for another time. My children run around outside then run in my house, lie on the carpet and sometimes eat while they’re walking.

My husband only sees me for a few hours in the evening and then again it’s only a couple of hours that is child-free time.

And then there is me, who craves a few minutes of alone time to blog, spoil myself or just have a pee in peace.

I don’t want my children to have to settle for two minute noodles everytime they are hungry which means I have to cook proper meals. I don’t want my children to wear dirty clothes which means the laundry, ironing and folding needs to be done. I don’t want my children to live in house filled with mud, dirt and cat hair all over the place so sometimes I will have to mop, sweep and vacuum, dust and wipe. I don’t want my children to want for time with me. I don’t want my husband to miss out on our time together and I would really love for me to have some time to myself once in a while.

I don’t know how to manage my time and it seems no matter what I decide, someone is not happy.

Any time-saving ideas on all this is greatly appreciated

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Confessions of a Stay at Home Mother - Laundry Edition

Sunday, April 15th, 2007 | Confessions | 10 Comments

1. I sometimes put clean clothes in the dirty clothes basket because I’m too lazy to put them away.

2. I don’t use pegs. And I don’t feel guilty about that.

3. I put creased clothes on (for me and my children) in the hope that before we are due to leave the house, the clothes will have straightened themselves out.

4. If they don’t get straigthened, I might pretend like the creasey/lined/scrunched up look is in at the moment. It never works with my children.

5. I hate ironing.

6. I mix whites with coloureds. THE HORROR!

7. I never pre-soak anything.

Confessions of a Stay at Home Mother III

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 | Confessions, Parenting | 5 Comments

1. My one year old’s whinging is like nails on a chalkboard. There are times when I do for him not out of love but just so he will be quiet.

2. I love waking up to find all 3 of my boys asleep in my room. Sometimes in our bed, sometimes on the mattress on the floor in our bedroom and the sweetest thing…when I find them asleep on the floor halfway between their room and mine.

3. There are days when I am glad I’m not homeschooling because all three are very demanding children and I can’t keep up with their requests/demands/crying. I can’t imagine doing this AND trying to teach reading and writing and maths.

4. I’m tired of giving.

5. I have over 3 laundry baskets full of clothes that need ironing/folding and putting away and another 2 baskets full that need washing. Because there is so much I don’t want to even start so the problem just escalates. HELP!

6. I’m getting dumber by the second.

7. They are so worth it.

Confessions of a Stay at Home Mother II

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | Confessions, Parenting | 6 Comments

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.

Confessions of a Stay at Home Mother

Friday, July 21st, 2006 | Confessions, Parenting | 9 Comments

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.