How on God’s green earth does she find it THIS HARD being a mum? She’s already said she has a cleaner, the kids are at school for 6+ hours of the day and she seemingly gets every other weekend free (bye girls!). School admin is a lot, but it’s not all that much when you compare it to a) the amount of down time she gets and b) that most families do this alongside part or full time jobs (MLMs are not jobs for the cheap seats), often younger children who aren’t yet at school PLUS they don’t get the weekend breaks.
I mean on days I’m in the office I’m out for 12+ hours. When I get back we do reading, baths and bed. Days I’m working from home I get up, sort myself, sort the kids, make packed lunches and breakfasts, do the school drop off, work all day (sometimes with a toddler), one of us picks the school kids up from school or clubs, make dinner, do reading, baths and bedtimes. If everyone sleeps properly we maybe get 2-3 hours in the evening and often one of us is catching up on work or studying during that time. We have to get up at 5am if we want to fit in exercise.
Then on weekends we need to fit in cleaning the house, sorting the garden, more clubs or birthday parties or play dates, I sometimes do extra work on the weekends if I need to catch up / or husband does extra study, sort homework, & of course meals (home cooked - not fish fingers in a slow cooker), Reading, baths, beds, general admin. I’m also considering adding my doctorate in top of this.
We haven’t had a holiday in just over 3 years, we haven’t had a date night in almost 3 years. We’ve not had a single weekend without children in 6 years. & yet I don’t find the need to whinge constantly about doing really basic things like getting my kids ready for school or being the parent who takes ridiculous amounts of time off work for the kids (a total of 5 additional weeks on top of annual leave last year). It is called being a parent. ESPECIALLY if you’re the parent that doesn’t work like Trash.
She needs a serious word with herself the spoilt old harpy.