Wednesday 2 February 2011

Perfect Mother of the Day

Think I should definitely have an award for my "performance" today - washing done and hung out, favourite teddies, blankets and cars washed and cleaned ( to eliminate lingering conjunctivitis germs), child offered healthy food including oily fish, porridge and 4 types of fruit and veg so far, child (more surprisingly) ate some of all food, child taken for a walk to post office (exercise, and conversations re letter boxes and diggers en route), child engaged in creative activity (painting), child had refreshing nap, dinner pre-prepared and mortgage payments adjusted.  And it's only 3pm!  Maybe I should stay at home and achieve things more often rather than gadding about seeing friends and going to toddler groups.  Less fights to break up too!

Disclaimer: this post does not represent the normal state of affairs in the doctor/woman household.

1 comment:

Amy said...

I shall, from now on, model myself upon your example ;) Seriously, I'm glad you had a day where you felt you'd "achieved" :) Sweetpea had four naps (she will only have 30 minutes) today, all of which (apart from one, in the pushchair - on a brisk walk! woo!) she went down in her cot for without very much grumbling. She woke from the last of these just over an hour before bathtime and so was awake enough to properly enjoy her bath and take a fairly acceptable amount of milk but was then sleepy enough for bed. I wonder if perhaps we should also stay at home if we can achieve such success! xx