I started to think about all the jobs I do around the house as I recently read an article about how much a 'mummy' could earn hypothetically. Probably a bad move on my part as I had a pretty crappy day yesterday running backwards and forward after the children, cleaning up after the dog and generally taking a lot of crud from other people!!!! So I was not in the best of moods when the list was created!!
However it did give me an insight into my so called life!!!!
Here we go, ahem!! I am cook(i use the term loosely) , cleaner, laundry woman, taxi driver, nutritionist, P.A( for both children and husband!!), fashion designer (I pick their clothes don't I!!) part time teacher (hey, homework of a five year old counts!!) animal trainer,gardener, psychiatrist, childrens entertainer etc....... the list goes on and on.
Is it martyrdom that keeps us going because lets be honest with all of these jobs comes none of the perks of working life - there is no real 'wage' ,no days off sick, no holiday. None are nine to five. And lets be honest alot are thankless tasks that are completed in solitude.
If it was monetary then all the mummies around the world would be millionaires!! Instead we search our purses for the change to buy a lollipop or go without a new top/shoes so that our children can have the latest toy.
We do it for love, that maternal bond that we cannot turn our backs on - some have it in bucket loads, others in thimble form but it is there. And try as we might its unavoidable,impossible to ignore, and a right pain in the arse most of the time!!! come on you know you agree!!!!!
So maybe the bigger question is.... Where does mummyhood end and Katie begin?
I dont remember signing this life long contract when they handed me the beautiful bundles of joy? Maybe it was the gas and air that clouded my judgement and made me ignore the small print?
Who knows?
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