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  • This Cleaning Trend Is Getting Ridiculous

    You all want immaculate homes. You want to cover your house in bleach & you want the perfect grey and white show home. I get it, I really do. But this ‘trend’ has become ridiculous. People aren’t sitting with their children at dinner time because they need to wash the pots and pans straight away. Children aren’t playing with play dough because god forbid the cleaning up. The toys are all hidden away in their bedrooms incase you have a visitor. Bed time stories are non existent because the floor won’t mop itself.

    Slow down mummas.

    Soon enough your children will all be grown up, they’ll fly the nest and you’ll be sat alone in your perfectly tidy home wishing for one more day of chaos.

    It’s not just your home, it’s theirs too. I won’t turn my home into an instagram worthy fragile building. I’ll keep tripping over lego, I’ll laugh whenever the children have more chocolate biscuit around their mouths than in it. I will put the tub of ‘pink stuff’ down and I’ll spend my last £2 buying them an ice cream on the beach. You can moan about the state of my home. You can move that pile of toys of the sofa before you take a seat. But I’d rather spend time with my child than make my house immaculate to please you. Love us for who we are 💜

    Your house is a building, that’s all it is. Your home is the heart beats that fill the walls. It’s the laughter as your children hose down their sandy toes. It’s the squeals of excitement as you do the funny voices in the bedtime story.

    Sing to them Mummas. Sing until your throat is sore. Read that story over and over until the pages turn crisp. Pick them up, even if it is the 10th time today, one day they won’t ask anymore.

    Your child’s fondest memories won’t be watching you on your hands and knees scrubbing the floor. You have forever to tidy up. Your children will never be as young as they are today.

    If you’re one of the lucky ones who will wake up tomorrow morning, appreciate it. If you woke up tomorrow and all the people you love were gone, your house would look the same, your home would never feel the same again ✨

    – Niamh Hocking

     

  • Why My Home Is A Mess When I Am Feeling Down

    When my head plays up with dark depressing thoughts my house is a mess, there’s clothes & rubbish everywhere, the sheets go unchanged for weeks and the floor doesn’t exist,the children will be fed and bathed but chaos will be all around.

    Once I find the motivation to be happy my house gets scrubbed, all my clothes even the unworn ones get washed, ironed and put away, my walls get scrubbed so there’s not one mark, my floor is swept, vacuumed and mopped, the sheets get changed finally and bed gets made, my makeup and shoes get organised and cleaned, candles get placed and lit to give off an amazing scent of aloe.. my hair and teeth are unbrushed and my legs unshaven, my cloths are loose and unmatched, my shoes are dirty.. once I feel the weight of my memories lift I shower, finally.

    Relieved as the water covers me, my body Is hairless and exfoliated, my hair is treated and soft, my teeth are brushed and whitened and my skin is clear, you can see the glow and My energy is on a whole new level… some of you wouldn’t understand how much your house and appearance reflects your feelings so when you see me looking raggedy, my homes a mess and my hair is knotted it’s not because I’m “lazy” it’s because I’m stuck in my head and the lights simply won’t turn on.

     

  • 20 Things I Learnt As A Parent

    I’m sure all of us can relate to most or all of these

    20 THINGS I LEARNT AS A PARENT!

    1. People who say you should ‘enjoy every single moment of parenthood’ are at best, unrealistic and at worst, morons.

    2. It’s easy to get to midday and realise you’ve not stopped since 6am but have achieved a grand total of fuck all.

    3. I don’t care how strong you think you are, nobody is stronger than a baby that doesn’t want to get dressed.

    4. It’s impossible to tidy the house. You can move things around and put them in different rooms but the house will remain a shithole.

    5. And there’s more chance of visiting Narnia than seeing the bottom of your laundry basket.

    6. People without kids who say they’re exhausted can kiss my tired, fat arse.

    7. In fact some days your energy levels resemble those of a diabetic sloth that’s cutting out caffeine for Lent.

    8. I told my childless friend I’d had an ‘amazing lie in till 7.30am’ and he pissed himself laughing. I was deadly serious.

    9. I now time my morning routine by CBeebies theme tunes. If I’m not running the shower by the time Octonauts is starting, I’m fucked.

    10. Phase 2 of parenthood is when an episode of a kids show comes on and you think, “Ah fuckin hell, I’ve seen this one.”

    11. And whoever let Postman Pat fly a frigging plane this week should be shot in the face.

    12. I love my kids more than anything in the world.

    13. But I’d love them even more if they’d nap properly.

    14. Getting your baby to nap is like a game of Snakes and Ladders. One wrong move and you’re back to the beginning.

    15. When remarking “they’ve gone down well tonight” it’s best to check you’ve turned the baby monitor on first.

    16. Often you’ll panic that there’s something seriously wrong with your baby but then realise they’re just having a massive shite.

    17. Some nappy changes are like Brexit – tonnes of build up, nobody really knows what’s going on and a horrible mess to clean up afterwards.

    18. Paying £40 a day for nursery when your kid is too ill to go because of a bug they caught at nursery smarts like a kick in the knackers.

    19. Parenthood is a crafty bastard – the second you master something it changes the game so you’re shit at it again.

    20. When your child laughs the world makes sense.