We are not rich, but we are comfortable. I am incredibly lucky to have a husband with a good job. Perhaps if we sold the house and the cars we would be rich (though what defines rich? We certainly don't have £1m which is what I define as rich), but then we would be living on the streets and walking everywhere! We probably have the same amount of money spare each month that everybody else does, because we spend more on food, household bills etc.
I am sick to death of people (not just mumsnet members, everybody we meet) saying we must be rich, surely we can't give attention to our children, we can't do this, we can't do that.
Do you really think my children don't get attention?? Hello, they have 9 brothers and sisters each! Every single one of my children knows that they can come to be at any given moment and talk to me about anything that is troubling them, and every single one of them knows that sometimes I might need to give one of them more attention than the others, but that nobody is more special that the others. I love each and every one of my children and they damn well know that.
For those people who wonder how I get time to be on the computer, I'm currently on my laptop in the playroom. When I am on the computer, it's is very rare that I am alone, that I don't have a child asking me what I'm doing and can they plase, oh please mummy, play on the cbeebies website.