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You know you're a good mum when…

Posted by: Emily   August 21st 2009

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All mums have good and bad mum days and each of us uses our own measuring stick to decide which day is a good day. I find that my good mum days usually involve enduring and embracing undesirable things in my home for the sake of my children’s enjoyment.

For example

Every day without fail my son empties the recycling bin onto what was a clean kitchen floor and uses whatever he finds in it to create fantastic sculptures. ‘Fantastic’ of course being a subjective term! This act of tolerance earns me at least 3 good mum points.

I then add to these good mum points by allowing these sculptures which are made of filthy household waste to go on display in places of prominence around my home.

I of course lose all these good mum points when I craftily put these structures in the bin after my son has gone to bed. He makes so many he barely notices. Except of course when I make the mistake of putting them back in the recycling bin! That’s the downside of this particular activity. I can’t recycle the recycled sculptures.

With my daughter, I tolerate her ‘doing my hair’. My hair is very precious to me. I don’t have much of it and it grows very slowly and comes out easily. I tolerate as much tugging as I feel my hair can stand before telling my 7 yr old stylist to buzz off. This is another case of earning big mum points in one hand then seeing them go straight out in the other!

There are however some good mum points that have withstood the test of time.

The frog pond is a suitable example.

I created what we call the frog pond in the garden by sinking a plant container into the ground, filling it with a few pond plants and letting nature do its job. Now and then we have a lovely froggy visitor and we all get very excited. We observe the comings and going in that tiny little pond and note how it changes from murky to clear and back to murky again.

It’s a great, simple source of amusement and one which results in me giving myself lots of pats on the back whenever we’re out in the garden.

How do you earn your mom points?

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