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Because The Stylist never asked me for a Day in the Life of my previous job, I thought I would offer them… A day in the life of a full-time mother.

One of my daughters will wake me up with one of their ‘spirited’ screams at around 6.30am. My husband waits for me to have a shower while he holds onto the children. I’ll grab the nearest outfit to me, usually what I wore the day before and put on some face cream and some blusher as an absolute minimum. I like to have a fringe so it acts as a hiding place for my shelf-like eyebrows.
For breakfast

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I will make the kids (age 10months and 3yrs) their separate dishes and then eat their leftovers washed down with a tennis ball sized gulp of cold tea. It usually hurts quite a lot but it’s important to be hydrated. As my day requires a fast pace I need something which will provide me with lots of energy, I find that a handful of nuts bundled into my face hole will usually help.
Just before we leave, I ritually need to take off the baby’s tights and baby grow which has poo squeezed into them, wash the clothes and baby and then attend to the 3yr old
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who needs to do a wee at the same time. I need to keep a cool head so take deep breaths, I find trying to feel my feet on the ground helps with this – especially easy to do when there is a wee puddle underneath. Visualisation usually helps too so I imagine that the baby making splashing noises in wee puddle is actually us all having fun on the beach. Back to reality, it’s clean up time!
As I regularly over-heat I remove layers of clothing throughout the day, I sometimes remove shoes and socks as my barefooted primal grip on the flooring helps with
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the, sometimes alarming, speed I have to rush about the house at.
By now, it is time that I need to go to the toilet and this is usually poo ‘o clock. I consider curling one out in the potty but think better of it as my 3yr old may start to be remembering things and I don’t think I want ‘squatting mother in hallway’ to be one of them.
We usually try to get out of the house but if we haven’t made plans we end up staying in. We have plenty of activities we do and I am always interested to see repeated improvements in the ‘throwing self on
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sofa’ game or ‘taking drawers out of coffee table onto head’ game. Our soundtrack to the day is Frozen and sometimes Taylor Swift as a treat.
We sometimes learn biology and deal with serious questions like ‘mummy, why do you wear bum plasters’ and ‘where has your milk gone’. First aid knowledge is a must, I de-choke and catch falling children often.
I have meetings with the 3yr old which involve tears and arguments, and I get to practice creativity and patience whilst trying to calm the situation down. Some problems just can’t be
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solved, ie. The fish fingers have already been cut and they can’t be long again, so I have to be tactful and think of new ways of marketing the lunch product to her. After this I am feeling bat-shit bonkers so I try to have something that will hydrate me again. I have brandy filled chocolates which sometimes help as a guilt-free treat.
In the afternoon I realise that as we haven’t gone out we should probably watch some tv. Because I don’t prepare in advance, I let the girls play whilst I think up a quick dinner. I scramble something up, we eat
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and then wait for daddy for his handover.
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- 1 Nov 16

Because The Stylist never asked me for a Day in the Life of my previous job, I thought I would offer them… A day in the life of a full-time mother.

One of my daughters will wake me up with one of their ‘spirited’ screams at around 6.30am. My husband waits for me to have a shower while he holds onto the children. I’ll grab the nearest outfit to me, usually what I wore the day before and put on some face cream and some blusher as an absolute minimum. I like to have a fringe so it acts as a hiding place for my shelf-like eyebrows.

For breakfast I will make the kids (age 10months and 3yrs) their separate dishes and then eat their leftovers washed down with a tennis ball sized gulp of cold tea. It usually hurts quite a lot but it’s important to be hydrated. As my day requires a fast pace I need something which will provide me with lots of energy, I find that a handful of nuts bundled into my face hole will usually help.

Just before we leave, I ritually need to take off the baby’s tights and baby grow which has poo squeezed into them, wash the clothes and baby and then attend to the 3yr old who needs to do a wee at the same time. I need to keep a cool head so take deep breaths, I find trying to feel my feet on the ground helps with this – especially easy to do when there is a wee puddle underneath. Visualisation usually helps too so I imagine that the baby making splashing noises in wee puddle is actually us all having fun on the beach. Back to reality, it’s clean up time!

As I regularly over-heat I remove layers of clothing throughout the day, I sometimes remove shoes and socks as my barefooted primal grip on the flooring helps with the, sometimes alarming, speed I have to rush about the house at.

By now, it is time that I need to go to the toilet and this is usually poo ‘o clock. I consider curling one out in the potty but think better of it as my 3yr old may start to be remembering things and I don’t think I want ‘squatting mother in hallway’ to be one of them.

We usually try to get out of the house but if we haven’t made plans we end up staying in. We have plenty of activities we do and I am always interested to see repeated improvements in the ‘throwing self on sofa’ game or ‘taking drawers out of coffee table onto head’ game. Our soundtrack to the day is Frozen and sometimes Taylor Swift as a treat.

We sometimes learn biology and deal with serious questions like ‘mummy, why do you wear bum plasters’ and ‘where has your milk gone’. First aid knowledge is a must, I de-choke and catch falling children often.

I have meetings with the 3yr old which involve tears and arguments, and I get to practice creativity and patience whilst trying to calm the situation down. Some problems just can’t be solved, ie. The fish fingers have already been cut and they can’t be long again, so I have to be tactful and think of new ways of marketing the lunch product to her. After this I am feeling bat-shit bonkers so I try to have something that will hydrate me again. I have brandy filled chocolates which sometimes help as a guilt-free treat.

In the afternoon I realise that as we haven’t gone out we should probably watch some tv. Because I don’t prepare in advance, I let the girls play whilst I think up a quick dinner. I scramble something up, we eat and then wait for daddy for his handover.

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