Anyone else have Mum Fail weeks?

[Teaandbiscuits35]

This week I’ve had to work early and late 4/5 days so I’ve only managed one school drop off and one pick up. House is a tip and I’m currently in bed with a migraine while DH is looking after DC. Feel like a total Mum Fail this week. I normally do drop off and pick up 2 or 3 days a week and childcare is split 70/30 which works around our jobs but this week has just been particularly busy at work. Feeling pretty shit and extremely guilty. Anyone else have weeks when it just doesn’t go right and they are constantly trying to balance work and home?

Ask yourself this would the average dad see this as a failure?

At least you are working ... says the lazy housewife

I didn't realise my six year old son was finishing an hour early on Thursday, they only wrote it in his folder the day before not in there earlier in the week and no letter about it and I didn't check his folder properly, got a phone call from an another parent who picks their child up from the same bus stop that he was at hers, felt like a bad mum for not checking his folder properly. Thank god he catches the bus with people we know, and yes 6 is young to get the bus to school but most children get the bus to school in Germany where we live.

Everyone has weeks when it doesn't go right. Are your DC fed, put to bed, dropped to school? Are they in a safe and loving home? Course they are. You're human. Give yourself a break, feeling guilty and shit is pointless.

Thanks ladies. @goodiegoodieyumyum Oh no. At least your friend was there and he was fine. It’s so difficult some days. We had lots of cuddles in bed and I’ve tackled the laundry basket so feeling more positive.

I've allowed 14yo DS to go off on a weekend expedition with no sleeping bag
Admittedly he should be packing and following the kit list himself, but I can't help feeling that a decent mum would have noticed the lack of a sleeping bag somewhere along the line

Please give yourself a break. Rest up and feel better.

I was ill this week and ordered Uber eats for tea. McDonald’s. I felt guilty too. But we were all fed.

One week?!

I'm a full time teacher single parent.

If my children are dropped off, collected and fed that is a success.

If they are bathed and read with too I give myself a medal.

If I went a week without forgetting at least one thing : Lunch boxes, replying to party invitations, non-uniform days and replying to letters from school I don't know what I'd do. It has never happened.

I'm constantly in arrears for music lessons and after school club - just through sheer disorganisation.

I do my best. I am good enough. It is done in the end.

That is all I aim for.

You sound like you're doing better than good to me!