Well that is what my daughter just said.
I have to laugh as I don't see myself like that at all.
I'm the mummy who just throughs on a pair of jeans and at the moment a wooly jumper, not the most glam things in the world, to take the children to school.
But as they say take a compliment when given :) even if it from my 4 year old daughter.
As the title says I have had enough... of this weather.
It is cold and windy, my feet and hands are so cold even with thick socks and gloves on. Today it was -2°C on the walk to school. Both of my children have runny noses which get worse when they go out.
They are both moning about how cold it is. This time last year we had just bought our house and it was lovely and sunny. My brother and hubby were helping me work on the garden while we were waiting for the builders to start work. This year I can't even dig the ground over to get ready for planting the veg patch. A couple of weeks ago I put up my small green house and started to sow some carrots, it was sunny and warm at the time. But it has got so cold that all the seeds with either rot or take ages to germinate.
I am hoping for a good year with the veg as last year with all the rain it didn't work so well. We got a few things a couple of cuecumber, a couple of small butternut sqush, I still have some leeks in the ground and they are sooo small. The slugs and snails got the rest, all my nice salard leaves and spring onions. I had even used organic pet friendly slug pellets but all to no avail I lost the lot. This year it is carrots, parsnips, potatos, beetroot, spinage and brocolie. I might try the leeks again but as I have a green house this year I think I might have to leave something to grow in there, where the slugs and snails can't get them.
I also need to cut a hedge but can't as I don't want to put an electric cable out in the snow. The poor birds too they started to nest in the headge and if they had layed any eggs I don't think that they will survive :(
There are so meny jobs to do in the garden and I also need to get the outside of the house painted. It is a horrid pinky orange colour and I would like it white. Which meens hiring a long ladder but I don't want to do that when it is so cold.
I know that we haven't had any thing half as bad as the Isle of Man or Isle of Arron. They have 10 foot of snow and have no electric. The farmers have lost live stock and this will have an impact on our food prices too.
I am also lucky that I have not come down with anything, illness wise, as this would not be very helpful with the children to look after. Most of my friends have come down with some sort of bug and there is also chicken pox going round my daughters school. So am on pox watch at the moment too.
I am a monster at the moment. I feel very angry for no reason then I can be nice as pie, I'm feeling tearfull and all I want to do is curl up and sleep. It seems like I'm on a rollacoster of emotions that I seem to have no control over.
The children are just making it worse. They are not listening to me when I ask them to do something and I have to keep asking them. In the end I'm shouting at them just so they pick up a toy and put it away. This is so not like me. My husband says I have the patience of a saint when it comes to our children and life. I have never let things get to me, even when I was having all my health issues my doctor could not believe how I was coping and how I could be happy and smiling.
I can't put a finger on what is wrong, I'm not ill. It's not PMT as I have not had any of them since having my coil put in three years ago. So what is it?
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I just want to screem but I can't. Even having a nice bubble bath is not working, when normaly it is just the job.
I have had some very bad thoughts too... But I can't say what they are, I haven't even told my hubby about them. I know I should but he is soooo stressed about getting his book to the publishers on time, I can't let this silly mood problem of mine worry him. I know that he would worry.
Help x
With less that two weeks before my hubby has to get his book to the publisher and the stress is at a high point.
He is currently drawing a picture for the book as he could not find one that was suitable. I have to say that he is a very good illustrator. Pic below.
We have spent quite a long time now sorting out photos for this book. Some are going to cost us quite a bit of money to use but the book needs them so needs must and all that.
The photos that we could take ourselves have all been done and I will get a few credits in this book, yay me. But others we have to pay for. I think after this book is done I will join one of these sites and put my photos up and hopefully get some money for my efforts.
Anyway back to a stressed hubby. I have notested that he has a very short fuse at the moment and I'm just trying to keep the children from getting in his way as they play. The children love playing round the house making as much noise as they can, even this gets on my nerves sometimes and with the book so near to being finished.
This is not a good time for them to be running round the house screeming.
I know when he tells them off for this he doesn't mean it but they don't seem to realise this. But they do love him and he will always read them bedtime stories every night.
And our daughter will only be bathed by him. She refusses to be bathed by me at the moment :( not sure why but she won't.
We just have two more weeks and it will be all done. Well the first draft will be. He will be sent a proof of the book to go through and make any changes to it. So it will be stress again.
His work is not helping his mood much. He hates his job and only sticks with it so we can pay the bills. I think he is hoping that he will get made redundent then he can look for new work near home instead of 45mins away by car. It would be quicker but having to travel in the rush hour it takes longer.
I do try to help as much as I can but there is only so much I can do for him. I wish I could do more.
Ooh I love a bit of baking.
I'm not that good at it but I'll give it a go, the family love to eat the results even if they don't come out properly. They do say practise makes perfect and I have been doing lots of practise.
I have just been given an very nice receipy for chocolate chip muffins. The only part that takes time is the chopping up of the chocolate and trying not to sneek a quick square in my mouth. The mixture make 12 muffins. Now I have this reciepy I can use it for any cake sales that the school do. I will just have to double the reciepy for that.
I am going to start making bread again so am now on the look out for a faccatua reciepy. The children love it with rosemarry when we go out to our local Italian. I would like to be able to make it at home.
I have so meny ideas for things to bake but never get round to doing it. I blame all the cooking programs I watch. I love The Great British Bake Off but I'm not good enough to go and take part. I just like watching it on the telly box. And who thinks that nice Paul Hollywood is a bit of alright? ;)
I am also watching Great British Menu and will be watching Paul Hollywood's new program on bread when in starts soon. More inspration to bake. I think I am going to need a new electric whisk though as I broke my old one while making the muffins today :( more things that I need to buy.
There is one job I hate in my house and that is the ironing.
I hate it soo much I have a mountin waiting to be done. See pic below
It is one of those jobs that I as soon as you do it you start to build it up all over again. I will keep putting it off long enough that the children start to run out of ironed clothes, bad mum. It has got to that point again were it must be done. I don't iron underwear and PJs but everthing else needs to be done.
I don't mind doing the washing as all you do is put it in the machine and let it do all the work. I don't even mind hanging it out but when it comes to the ironing I will put it off as long as possible. I will clean the toilet before I will do the ironing.
Any one else with me or is it just me?
