Being a mother may have destroyed my figure, given me facial lines and bags under my eyes,

[OrmIrian]

but I have also developed a very very thick skin.

I just walked half a mile home with DS#2 following me a metre of so behind screaming and creating at top volume with the whole range of tantrum effects, without raising my voice (or even my eyebrows)once.

God I'm good

I would have lost the will to live a tenth of the way home.

Well 'ard!

Oh no. If I lost the will to live every time DS#2 lost it, I'd have topped myself long ago.

Good for you. See, there are benefits!!

Do you think anyone judgey will have seen you and be posting on MN 'I just saw this evil woman, her ds was clearly in pain and she was completely ignoring him'?

(I think you did brilliantly btw.)

That is good.

bieng a mother has robbed me of any memory that i ever had, any dress sense and the motivation to wash my hair as frequently as i should.

Realised today that it is so long since i last washed it that when i took my scrunchy out, my hair stayed in the same place, in a large peak on top of my head. Then when i had removed said scrunchy i couldnt remember why i was taking it out.

I've turned into my mother.
It's hell I tell you!

I did think about how I would be judged but decided that I didn't care. No MNers round here that I know off anyway. And who else matters

lol...she sounds like my DD@ORMI

donbean - pmsl. I'm glad its not just me then

ormIrian I'm very impressed. There are days when I seem to be able to do that sort of thing but then they are separated by days when I certainly cannot - I like to give my children clear and consistent boundaries

There was a time when I would have kept up a running commentary along the lines "now you know that you can't have X, DS#2, because mummy said y and when we get home we'll see" or words to that effect, just so that any 'interested' passers by would know that I wasn't just being a horrible mummy. Now, however, I don't give a toss.