Working parents Round-up: Mummy madness & magnificence

Phew – this is a week late *confession*

That’s because at the moment I don’t know my arse from my elbow; in fact, I would quite like to take a break from life and get a moment’s peace. It would be nice just to sit down on my elbow. It’s spreading due to lack of exercise, trying to fit in work around the kids, and general apathy. Not to mention the chocolate.

Enough about me though, how are working parents in the blogging world fairing – any better?

Sometimes its nice to see how other working mums and other amazing women are doing it. Super Mummy, The Little Pip, Honest Mum, Mother.Wife.Me seem to agree with me as they are running a series on their blogs of interviews with mums to give us a little insight into what goes on in the lives of a business/working mum. Some great chats on there this month, so do check them all out.

Being a working parent, can mean utter chaos is the norm in your house At least, it seems that way in ours *worries it’s just me.*

This month we have been dealing with nits, as you can tell from KiddyCharts, and harvest festivals, which we have immortalised on Stickers, Stars and Smiles through the singing of our number two child. Its been one of those times where we are willing to take whatever gets thrown at us; whether it be small annoying critters, or tins of sweetcorn.

Mum and Career are trying to ease our pain with some advice on how to deal with the impending half-term while we are working…something that will only add to my chaos-ometer. I suspect that Raising Edgar isn’t even thinking about that as she returns to work after her maternity leave, and hubby takes over. Her perspective on this change makes an excellent, and un-missable read on her blog; do please go check her out if you haven’t already.

Something that I struggle with when the kids are on holiday is how to keep working ticking along, and giving them mouth-watering food to eat. Mummy do That has written a very pertinent post on how us working parents are meant to manage to feed our kids healthily when all they are exposed to is junk food…everywhere it seems.

My kids school lunches are where they get their main hot meal, just so I don’t have to manically feed them after school / clubs / playdates. Is this true in your house?

Do YOU feel that you aren’t being helped by the choices your kids have to make at school/nursery? Quick lunches/dinners are key to reducing my lunacy levels *see what I did there.* Mums plus Business have some lunchtime tips for saving us a bit of time; always helpful over the holidays, and when the kids won’t eat their school dinners and insist on sandwiches, which add a whole new layer of nutterdom to the day.

Let’s try and stay sane, eh?

Be good to yourself and don’t beat yourself up about what you can and can’t do for your kids, whether it be missing out on that highly nutritious tea ever night, playing with them all the time, or indeed something else. Lets be nice to each other too and respect the choices that everyone makes. Each with a different set of circumstances, we all try to do the best we can for our kids. Try not to fight about it all. In a Bun Dance‘s post about the SAHM vs the WAHM is a timely reminder of this; and we would all do well to read it.

If in doubt, though; just have some chocolate like these lovely buns from A Mummy Too…it works for me (apart from the spreading elbow of course).