Why?
Because I married a man deficient in the DIY gene.
How difficult is it to hang a mirror?
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Working Mum and Family
2011
Working Mum and Family
2005
Who is working mum?
- Working Mum
- ...lives in Manchester, UK. Has full-time job, 7 year old daughter and a football obsessed husband. Tries to maintain her sanity by singing in a renowned choir in spare time. Would like to have it all: fulfilling career, well adjusted child, perfect marriage and beautiful home. So far has achieved stressful job as teacher, demanding daughter, 18 years of marriage and an old house that "we're doing up". This is my story .......
Working Mum and Daughter
2008 (picture courtesy of Funky Foto)
Working mum circa 1978
Already doing housework ...
..... and resorting to drink!
Working mum's family
- Husband - Andy - senior management bloke, lives for football
- Daughter - Izzy - gorgeous 7 year old
- Mum - J - recently retired, understands plight of working mum
- Mother-in-law - Reen - stayed at home since 1966, doesn't understand plight of working mum
- Dad - Tone -still working, can't sit still, adores granddaughter
- Brother - Steve - DINK, big in IT, thinks his life is busy!
- Sister-in-law - Kay - married to Steve, high powered executive, lovely and adores Izzy
The reason 'working mum' isn't just 'working'
Too fast! Too fast!
The Manchester Chorale
keeping Working Mum sane! (click on the picture to find out more)
Followers
Blogtastic Awards!
from One Strangely Lush Mother for blogging advance warning of the perils of combining work and motherhood
from StudentMum
from Modern Mom at How to Survive Life in the Suburbs
from (Very) Lost in France
From The Reluctant Housewife, Dusty Spider and Suzy Soo
from the Lehners in France
Fhina's Blog of Distinction Award (from A Woman of No Importance)
from Rosiero at Alcoholic Daze, Muddling along Mummy and from Fat, Frumpy and Fifty
from Kelloggsville
from Nicol at Classy and Sophisticated
from Maternal Tales and Catharine Withenay
from (Very) Lost in France
From A Confused Take That Fan, Bare Naked Mummy, and Nunhead Mum of One, Fat, Frumpy and Fifty and Maternal Tales from the South Coast
from The Mother of This Lot for being the sort of blogger who would invite you in for a nice long chat
for making Reluctant Housewife laugh and think
from The Mother of This Lot and The Reluctant Housewife
from The Fixer because she thinks I'm top!
from Mean Mom
from Nunhead Mum of One
from the Mother of This Lot on the occasion of her hundredth post
from SaraLynn at Happy Baker
from The Mom Bomb
from Nicol at Classy and Sophisticated and from Cheshire Wife
from Tawny
Thinking of emigrating? Try these ....
10 comments:
Look after that cold and molly coddle yourself or you will have it forever. The DIY and MIL plumbing can wait.
A Happy New Year to you and your family.
Ahhhhhh and you having a cold too!My husband is not capabable of doing any DIY tasks but neither am I!! Happy New Year x
happy new year to you :-) hope the day is not all filled with DIY
Oh dear...they just are useless most of the time aren't they? never mind...dose yourself up and feel better.
That's a shame, feeling poorly from Boxing day, when you were feeling so good. Hope it passes soon xx.
Oops!
You can get man flu now though so be careful!
Oh dear, feeling your frustration!!
I was fixing Christmas lights that had gone on the blink and replacing spent batteries and bulbs in optical deccies with new ones. I'm the odd-jobber. My dad was always hopeless too.
Happy New Year!
I have been so lax at following blogs lately but have enjoyed reading through your family antics over Christmas/New Year - thank you! Hope 2011 is fantastic for you all.
And as for the DIY ... there is always a change in attitude when hubbie starts drilling holes into the walls in our (new!) house. It appears that there are huge gaps between the plasterboard and the wall so he can never screw into the brick, much to his chagrin. The air turns blue and sharp objects are at high likelihood of being thrown... if that didn't result in more DIY to fix holes!
LOL, I married a guy who just might be your husband's brother! I definitely did not expect to be the one who chooses our home's cordless drill when I got married, but life is full of surprises!
Guess what you can often hear in my home? DH calling to me, "Sweetheart, where do you keep the hammer?"
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