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to think local working mums give me a bad name?

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cubmum · 19/05/2015 21:17

On my local fb mums group there are working mums moaning how tiring it is. Recommending work from home (which I loathe if my team at work request this sort of thing) Maybe I'm very lazy (I do let laundry pile up etc) but I think working is in a way easier cos I do F all at home and my lovely nanny does the hard work in a share. I come home, play, do bath and story and bedtime and cuddles, think how cute my kid is as the nanny is complaining about my infant Terrible, do some light tidying up if i feel like it, make myself a quick dinner (or grab a sarnie on the way home) and dh if I feel like it. I don't know how women run households or what cleaning standards they have but I honestly find it easy on the physical aspect (ignore the guilt or emotional dilemma or work stress they were moaning about physical exhaustion) and find it annoying to hear this sort of moaning. Also i find it insulting that it is a wife's implicit responsibility to cook for dh it's a choice surely.

It was similar when i was on mat leave and my nct group moaned how hard motherhood is. I always had to nod and agree when i just LOVE IT. It is a blessing. but maybe I just don't understand women being a woman myself. I work 5 days full time and dh very long hours. Maybe I should move, I'm also sick to hear about mums who have nannies + sitters + night nannies in my area too. I think we are a much luckier generation than previous ones.

OP posts:
AllThatGlistens · 19/05/2015 22:53

Do you happen to live in Jersey OP? Grin

WankerDeAsalWipe · 19/05/2015 22:54

I have a professional (but apparently dead end - that's for all you guys on last nights thread!) job, no nanny and am also tired.

I've been trying to train the cat to be a monkey butler with very limited no success so far.

FantasticRik · 19/05/2015 22:54

I'm not amused ... Just confused.
But I would like a nanny.

UsedtobeFeckless · 19/05/2015 22:54

Oh, the hilarity ... Hmm

For what it's worth I myself am totally knackered but that's due to mainlining Black Sails, not yer actual Motherhood ...

WireCat · 19/05/2015 22:55

What?

Suspect you have to be drunk to read the OP.

WorraLiberty · 19/05/2015 22:56

I thought Helen was calling us cock heads. And then something about more cock. Anyway, I still don't get it.

You don't get more cock? I'm sorry to hear that Sad

Pacific I've heard fried onions sell houses. I read in on MN so it's a FACT Grin

ThisFenceIsComfy · 19/05/2015 22:56

I get it.

The answer is 42, I think.

HemanOrSheRa · 19/05/2015 22:56

Indeed Wanker. Last night we were asswipe wankers. Tonight I thought I was being called a cock head. I'm exhausted from my dead end job.

WorraLiberty · 19/05/2015 22:57

Suspect you have to be drunk to read the OP

To be fair, I'm off me tits tonight and I still don't understand it.

UsedtobeFeckless · 19/05/2015 22:57

Mind you, come to think of it, motherhood totally does me in as well.

You win OP, we are as crawling insects before your awesomeness. Now DFOD.

PacificDogwood · 19/05/2015 22:57

Ah, but what is the question, ThisFence, hm??

Fried onions - that's totally different. Welsh did not say her cat smelt of fried onions...

WankerDeAsalWipe · 19/05/2015 22:57

Allthat :o That's what I wondered but completely different writing style unless both this OP and yesterdays are a lot cleverer than their grammar and lack of punctuation would indicate. But it would explain where 4.5k a month was going.

HemanOrSheRa · 19/05/2015 22:59

Grin No Worra Sad. Too tired.

And my Jack Russell doesn't smell of lemons. Or onions. She smells kind of doggy with a hint of fox shit.

Life is just so unfair.

Welshmaenad · 19/05/2015 23:00

No, fried onions have a mellow warmth to their aroma.

This is a harsh, raw sliced onion smell. And my onions live on top of the fridge. And he can't get up there because he's REALLY stupid.

WankerDeAsalWipe · 19/05/2015 23:00

Oh, I keep forgetting that I am Wanker now, and because the thread was deleted, very few people will ever the get the reference of my name - oh well!

PacificDogwood · 19/05/2015 23:01

Oh I saw that thread and very quietly and carefully stepped away from it.

Welshmaenad · 19/05/2015 23:02

Is 'do you happen to live in Jersey?' the new 'are you in Scotland?'.

PattiODoors · 19/05/2015 23:04

Me too, Paci. I shut the door ever so gently behind me as I backed out.

WorraLiberty · 19/05/2015 23:04

Well there's your answer then.

Fry the cat and his aroma will become warm and mellow.

You'll also be able to sell the house for like a million pounds, even if you happen to rent it.

I think onion cats will eventually get the market moving and solve the housing crisis.

Fatmomma99 · 19/05/2015 23:06

I assumed it was a reverse thread.

Or else written by a man.

I, too, pondered the significance of Jersey.

And my dog smells as foul as she usually does, and looks as happy and smug about it as usual.

Welshmaenad · 19/05/2015 23:07

We are in fact putting the house on the market soon.

makes mental note to fry cat

unexpectedplaces · 19/05/2015 23:07

I don't understand the answer or the question or if indeed there was ever one at all Confused

kungfupannda · 19/05/2015 23:10

I've been frinking on a Tuesday.

I still don't get it.

Maybe I need to frink more.

WankerDeAsalWipe · 19/05/2015 23:10

I must have missed the bit where we were to describe the smell of our pets but I've just sniffed the cat - she smells vaguely of lavender and stale wee - I think she has been hanging out with the old lady down the street.

kungfupannda · 19/05/2015 23:10

It is Tuesday, isn't it?

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