The Mumsnet MUM of the year award.

[QuintessentialShadow]

Will there be a thread to discuss nominations, or will it all be secret through email?

It must be a hard task doing the judging.
It must be bloody harder than the Christmas appeal, so I dont envy you this task. A whole holiday stands to gain for one lucky winner, wow....

But, what criteria do you use to judge? If I were to put myself somebody forward, so to speak....

What I really would like to ask is:

???? why? What the fuck are you thinking?

Hmmm! cheers MP!!!

I'm very uncomfortable with the whole thing TBH.

Yes, so really it is a competition between those of us who have really posted a lot about our bumsex experiences, etc, to make us memorable.

on second thoughts, maybe lets make that two different threads....

People not to vote for:

• Jacqui Smith
• Julie Myerson

Am watching this with interest and waiting for some answers!

What do you think of IwishIwasmoreorganised butI'mMumoftheyearanyway ? Maybe a bit of a mouthful?

Also, I suppose the winner has to be alive.

I don't think I'm in with much of a chance, given that I once took BabyDragon to the baby clinic in order to get her weighed for postage costs...

I don't think any MUMSNETTER would be a mum of the year

our children are all feral

well i always ensure that the children are firmly placed at the end of teh bed so i can supervise but they are watching Cbeebies and eating a sausage roll so they dont really notice whats going on.

half way through i chuck them a froot shit so that they are nice and hydrated.

see not only am i a caring mother, attentive partner but also multi tasker extrordinar

Soupy, do you remember the postage costs?

Good point MP, the trophy would need to be of a child eating frosties from the box while the mother stares at her screen.

I can't, Quint. I think it must have been in "For Sale" though as the thread has gone. She would have been around 4 months old though and, IIRC, it had to be by Special Delivery to ensure she made it in one piece

But I think we can nominate you on the basis that you were thinking about a courier, to ensure that she made it in one piece, and on the basis that you actually kept her.

Aw Flame, I love you tooooooooooo hugs Flame and therefore disqualifies herself from everything ever

Too right I go on here as an escape. My DCs are at school most of the time I'm on MN, they've got past that age where I need reasurrance that they're not freaks and I'm not an awful mother. I've given up got faith in my own parenting skills now, partly due to seeing that everyone else has the same worries and issues. I love MN for that.

What's this MN Mum of the year then? Is it an MNer or one of those sleb things? Is it going to be like one of those popularity threads where lots of people secretly get upset that they never, ever get a mention?!

Serenity - you now know your children are freaks and don't need the reassurance

I fear a poularity contest will ensue

My children are freaks and geeks and I'm PROUD!!!!! It's a genetic thing...

Yes, I kept her. Not heard a peep out of her (or her brothers) since.

Sorry, dont like the sound or the intent of this concept one bit. The more I think about my reasons, the more they seem to mirror my reasons against 'another matter'. I personally think it goes entirely against the mumsnet grain and the content of this site is at risk of slipping into mumsnetOK! Isnt the very point of MN that each poster is as equal as the last or next poster - whoever that may be, regardless how often they post or how much they wish to reveal about themselves, their family lives, jobs, sex, education choices, baby name shortlists or whatever. So now, will there be a hierarchy of topics as well as threads within those topics as well as post on threads within those topics? HHmm.

Perhaps most inportantly for me, is that posts and posters are likely to be scrutinised even more closely than ever and become a 'trollfest'. I have said elsewhere that i change my name from time to time for my own reasons; will I therefore be judged as LS or an obscure amalgam of my posting names? By the way, who are we to judge? And to win some kind of award for having been judged? Doesnt seem right, somehow.

Having looked at the actual competition, you submit a 150-200 word application (for you or someone else) and they judge it from that (and the quality of the cake/wine you end with it).

Not really a popularity contest.

Kerry, you obv are Mum of the year!!!! She has better things than bumsex on her mind!!

and another thing. there are those (sad) mumsnetters who do remember the posts you made in 2003, can recite your life history and research (fgs) on posters, perhaps knowing the most intimate detail about them, reading their blogs, or their prublished articles and putting all the facts together in a weirdy litle file.

there are mumsnetters who save whole threads on their home computer - regularly.

these nutjobs exist. and on MN there are more of them than i have ever met before - those who could say "but you didn't say that in in this thread" (dated 2001)

with that in mind then, can you imagine some poor sod who got nominated and won, but who posted something a bit icky, or off, or personal?

this has got to be linked to a publicity campaign and you will get people comming on = or people whoare already here knowing that the queen of mumsnet thinks bumsex is fine, didn't breastfeed and thinks BLW is a pile of wank, they do howver crochet their own toilet paper and milk cows in their back garden whilst growing ganja in their attic. they will know that you slept with between 200/300 men ( you can't remember their names) and that you are famous locally for your shortbred recipe.