to think Mumsnet should be banned ??

[SquishyButt]

First day as a SAHM today (gave up work last week - boss don't know yet - have thrown a sickie until find the guts to tell them ).

DH agrees with me staying at home as stuff just does not get done with us both out all day (3 DCs, all at school) and I hate my job!!

Anyway found Mumsnet a few weeks ago and am ADDICTED . All I have done today (in between taking kids to school and picking up) is

load dishwasher
empty the dustbin
empty all the dirty washing from baskets and sort into piles (put one lot on)
take cleaning stuff for bathrooms from cupboard and put on bottom stair with hoover (finally put it away unused at 5.00pm)

Am a complete failure and Mumsnet is to blame!! I was planning to change all the bedsheets, clean bathrooms and downstairs loo, hoover upstairs and mop floors down, attack the 6ft pile of ironing gathering dust in the corner of our bedroom, clean all the windows, do a big shop at Tescos and prepare a wholesome meal for the family (they ended up with fishfingers and oven chips).

Please tell me how to overcome this or DH will put me back to work .

I can't turn the computer off - I'm supposed to be writing up a PhD.

Right, you have inspired me and I'm going to go do the washing up. Even though I really think that DP should do it. The I'll smile sweetly and wait for all the good things that the Stepford thread says I should get (not going out tonight so hair-stroking is okay, if anyone was going to see then he's not allowed to mess with it).

So right. Thank god I went on the Fly thread yesterday to get something done yesterday. Just wasting time. I'm going now.....really I'm going.... Gone

easy peasy really go back to work.stop faffing about on MN.oh and don't consider contributing to any sahm/working thread after admitting you do sweet FA all day

i work FT and keep a clean hoose and laundry too

I've set up the laptop in the bedroom for ds's evening feeds coz they used to take an hour and I was getting bored looking at the walls. Now his feeds take twice as long

what's the fly thread?

Ahh, you see you don't start as you mean to go on!

Firstly the more you MN, the better. Then when you do get a chore done it feels like a massive achievement. How else will dusting take on such status?

Secondly, if you get all those intended jobs done DH will come home and look round proudly at what you've done. Then he'll ask you to iron a shirt tomorrow, and drip-by-drip, shirt-by-shirt the chores will add up and you won't have any time whatsoever to Mumsnet

More time MNing, having a nice lunch and a bit of Dickinsons Real Deal as of tomorrow is my advice

loobeylou I also didn't know the answer to that question. So I looked it up (in the housekeeping section) and that gave me a link to another website and...well put it this way, that was over two hours ago! Pesky mumsnet...

ps, look here

glaskham, when the baby arrives you will be exhausted from MNing looking after him/her, so that is a perfectly valid excuse for several more months!

thanks thumbwitch... i suppose i will be able to get a few more hrs on here without DH noticing!!

In fact i turned the pc on 2 mins before he left for work this morning, and he said to me 'you're not going to be on that MN all day are you??'....

Luckily i'd already put a load of washing on, put all the ironing i did last night away, and hoovered all of downstairs!! So all i have left to do today is hoovering upstairs.... hopefully the kids will keep the Living room spotless for me today as i blitzed it last night!!

I tell my DH (and myself) that when DS is napping downstairs, I have to be hear him for safety, but I can't 'do' anything because it might wake him up - so what is a gal to do? Enter mumsnet...