I can’t wait for the day I can do that instead of running after my kid, getting hot and sweaty and trying not to step on other people’s kids
![Face with tears of joy :joy: 😂](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f602.png)
Looking forward to actually drinking a hot drink and being able to catch up with friends. Maybe that’s why she goes in, because she doesn’t want to sit on her own Billy no mates.
Honestly it’s the best! Your time will come....
2011
Kids ages 4 weeks, 18 months, 4 years. I was so grateful to be a SAHM-was
bleeping hard tho. Spent my life in parks running after the older two, while keeping an eye on the newborn (mostly asleep in a car seat on our picnic rug with a post it note saying “Look around- my Mum is watching- she’ll give you a wave!”) In swimming pools I carried the newborn and popped the older two in swim floats/vests and kept them close. In soft play I would go with friends and we’d take it in turns to run around with the older kiddies. I used hair-dye from the supermarket, I didn’t eat as well as I should have, I didn’t have much ‘me’ time and I don’t have a single selfie from that era. We spent so much time at home- puzzles, games, gardening, cooking- the opportunities are endless and you don’t need to constantly buy stuff.
2021
Kids ages 10, 11, 14.We have been to London, camping, trips with friends, cinema, bowling, kayaking, fishing. They wash themselves, sort their own
tit out, and I sit in parks while they dick about playing football and I read Grazia on my phone. I bring a flask of tea and smile at the parents with young babies thinking yep I’ve done my time and now we’re through it! Thing is though; I raised my kids right, so they don’t need a lot of entertaining these days. They are brilliant kids; not spoilt or ungracious. They appreciate things we do buy them because we put the time in when they were young and encouraged them to value friendships, games, and concepts, not material things, days out or being constantly entertained.
Nicki is raising ungrateful spoilt brats, and that isn’t their fault it’s hers. They will know the value of everything and the worth of nothing. She bases her worth on her looks and likes on social media so in the long term she will continue to seek validation from everyone but herself.
My favourite Mum account is @oldjoy. And no it’s not me (
![Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl: 🤣](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f923.png)
)- don’t even remember how I even started following her. She is the antithesis of Pricki, and the most authentic person on my Instagram feed for a number of years. Not always my taste/beliefs but just a bloody lovely person emanating through the screen.She just loves her kids and treats them as individuals and I want to be as good as her (never will be...lol)