This Mama Life #26 Sinbad’s off to sea sea sea but what about poor old me me me?

[DeloresBawbag]

Probably crying into her whispering angel about being picked on when she’s just trying her best despite the Royal Navy being out to get her and life being inordinately hard for her more than anyone ever in the history of the navy.

Or maybe she’s sitting up taking pictures of all the processed shlte she chops into molecular portions for her toddlers’ children’s lunchboxes and claims people want to see?

Or she’s decided to use the oven cleaner on the double bed in the garden by torchlight.

So many exciting options to intersperse into the usual riveting ‘I got up, I sat in traffic, I’m in a shop, I had to buy dairy free things for L who is dairy intolerant and it takes so much time and is totally not predictable so here are my groceries and here is my face while buying them do you like my hair, I didn’t have much time to do it cos Rob is in the navy and I have to get the kids to football football swimming swimming dancing dancing karate and piano and afterschool club all on my own. So a hilarious thing happened, oh hello there’s my eyelash, hello eyelash aren’t you a long one, haha, yeah so like this hilarious thing happened and I’m going to tell you really slowly wiff like loads of like detail and tangents and like when I get to the end it’s going to be totally unfunny haha and yeah so yeah I’m just tired so that’s nice, oh and here’s an affiliate link for a striped jumper.’

 

[Lassie don't go home]

I think the next thread should be

This mama life #27

As a mark of respect for Roberts mum... even if sarah has no manners ... leave it blank

 

[B_ee]

I can't believe Rob was saying goodbye to his mum and she took pictures for Instagram in burger king with a big grin on her face. That is divorce material.

 

[natshancock]

I’m a navy wife. Not far from her. I have 6 children. I work. My children never struggle when hubby away. They are so blasé about it because I’m here. Yes it’s bloody hard at times. This is his first deployment. An 8 month one. After losing my mum. I now have no help with kids. I have brilliant friends. They all have their own lives though. Don’t get me wrong if I needed them they’d be there. I’m in a lot worse position financially and watching her moan, when she has the means, she does. Drives me mad. I only followed her for a couple of weeks. That was enough. My husband is Scottish so his family are all up there. I’m not in my hometown at moment but our home is wherever we are together.

 

[JulieScoobyDoo]

Sarah, the reason it takes L 40 minutes to get to sleep is because he is fucking starving. Half a tub of cold pasta is not enough for a growing child to eat, especially after school and clubs. Get help for your food issues because you are seriously fucking up those kids. Rice Krispies for dinner?! Seriously if you are so busy that you can only have a bowl of cereal you need to reassess your life choices and cut back on the after school clubs. You are a basket case. Feed your kids, feed yourself, buy a fucking fridge and get some fucking help.

 

[Peachbomb]

@LennyBriscoe now I’m imagining Sinbad spending 6 months in a Travelodge on the M6, living his best life, pretending he’s on a ship

 

[LennyBriscoe]

Recap:

* Huge congrats to everyone’s favourite positive mama for remembering to take both kids Christmas presents to Aberdeen!
* The Knotts appeared to stop at Rob’s parents longer than it takes four people to pee. A Christmas miracle! Sarah exclaimed she loves to see the cousins playing together - but not enough for them all to meet again next Christmas
* Sarah had two weeks of fulfilment “at home” - no not Holland or the Middle East, Aberdeen sillies!
* Sarah was very ill whilst in the motherland, worse than anyone else who had been unwell at the same time, natch.
* She cried when Holland were knocked out of the World Cup but refused to allow her English children support England
* For reasons none of us can comprehend, Mama has been promoted! In addition to this, she’s foregoing her day off to go back to full time. Given all her content seems to be around how busy she is, this is a perplexing turn of events.
* After school clubs and enforced activities are still the way. Don’t worry about the kiddos though, they are fuelled by cheesy pasta in a weaning receptacle in the car on the way to swimming/football/dancing/gymnastics (or anything that means Sarah doesn’t have to spend time with them)
* Posts of Lachlan are always adorned with “bless him” after something happened that may be related to his behaviour. Sarah seemed more miffed that something was said rather than addressing whatever it is head on and Lachlan was again pushed to the wayside. We care whether or not he’s ok
* Rob appears to be signing up for allllll the drafts (hope that’s the right word). Plot twist - like Gerald from The Fully Monty, he left his job years ago and spends the time anywhere he can that doesn’t involve him being criticised/emasculated/nagged.
* Sarah hates the Navy more than she hates the fact she couldn’t attend a PR holiday. And that’s saying something. She’s not even pretending to hide her contempt of Rob’s career and instead of being trolls, it’s people here who show concern that the kids are old enough to pick up their mum’s resentment of it

 

[BettyCrockerr]

I have absolutely zero experience with a military partner so someone educate me please but is it normal for her kids to struggle this much with deployments when it's all they've ever known? Not the same thing but I have friends whose partners work ad-hoc offshore so can be called away for a couple of months out of nowhere & if anything the kids deal with it better than the adults, they seem to just adapt & I've always put this down to it being their normality.

No its not normal and it’s happening because of Sarahs own attitude and behaviour around it. Those kids are hearing & seeing all the negative things shes putting out there and are mirroring it back. If Sarah was positive and upbeat and was putting a happy spin on it the kids would be far better. Sarah in my opinion is doing this deliberately - she’s deliberately choosing to have this down in the mouth negative miserable attitude and shes doing it to emotionally manipulate Rob, its so transparent. Shes fucking those kids up mentally & emotionally and it’s honestly a disgrace

 

[BettyCrockerr]

“Im not trying to be cryptic or anything”


But i will continue to drip feed nuggets of information about the “sad” thing that’s happening in Rob’s family, and even though im not in a position to just come out and say what it is I will use it for content and an excuse as to why ive run away to my mummys…



JUST FUCK OFF.

 

[Pushyplumb]

Ffs Sarah. That doodle book is for Isla to write her personal thoughts. Not to be photographed and shared on Instagram just so you can get another dig in about navy life.

 

[Beakytoo]

Isla comes across as a really unlikeable kid

 

[DeloresBawbag]

She needs to broaden her horizons. Does this woman not know that there are millions of families where mum and dad aren’t laughing and drinking whispering angel around the sink peeling potatoes together?

Her massive chip on her shoulder is so offensive. As if she’s missing out on the norm, or the right to something everyone else has. The princess expectation of everything being just as she wants, and the incessant public moaning that it is not.

Loads of single parent families, loads of shift workers, loads of jobs where dad works away, plenty where mum works away too! Loads of people wondering how they’ll put food on the table for everyone and stop the kids freezing or keep mould from their clothes. Does she think that those little people should be grateful for their lot? And despite her having so much more, that she somehow deserves even more? The lack of awareness of her privilege disgusts me. The entitlement oozes out of every pore.

And THIS content is what she chooses to share! Boring clips of her boring but comfortable life, where she chooses disarray, selfishness and misery because her husband sometimes works away. And when he’s away she still has the money and the childcare to work, socialise, indulge in expensive self care, and have fun with her healthy children.

Please SOMEBODY tell her to get help before these years are over and she lives the rest of her life regretting them.

 

[DeloresBawbag]

I’m horrified to realise that at the time she was being all vague about seeing him for valentines, moaning in detail about how it was a terrible valentines for her, how the navy made life so hard for her; organising logistics so she could see him, and FILM HIM, all while his focus should have been on the monumental awfulness of having to go and say goodbye forever to his mum.

I can’t begin to imagine what it must take to travel for the sole purpose of a brief visit to say goodbye, all the things to say, and having to leave the room one last time. What must’ve been going through his head, trying to focus on making the most of those final minutes.

Distracting him from that is unforgivable, and filming it is disgusting.

 

[superxo1]

Someone’s called her out on it and she’s said one uses adult cutlery and the other still struggles so is taking their lead (doesn’t specify which child even though it’s blatantly obvious on the photos) then says not sure why it’s of concern to others… I’m sorry but there is no reason that a 6 year old should be struggling with a knife and fork. Her eating disorder is having a huge impact on those kids.

Lachlan is on our schools Instagram having lunch using normal size cutlery make it make sense Sarah!

 

[LennyBriscoe]

Thread title nomination:

#27 Solo parenting fills Mama with dread, thank god she has her new man Fred

 

[BettyCrockerr]

hmmmmmm what to do with leftover pasta….

PUT IT IN A FUCKING TUPPERWEAR BOX AND PUT IT IN YOUR NEW FUCKING FRIDGE AND HEY PRESTO THERES LUNCH OR DINNER FOR TOMORROW YOU USELESS FUCKING R*TARD.

 

[Effeffess]

Wishes she was in Scotland - no wait, London - oh sorry, the Middle East... oh I mean "abroad"

Wishes she had 3 kids but dislikes being a parent

Wishes Rob wasn't away so much but also is irritated by him and belittles him when he's here

...she will never, ever be happy

 

[jayne2240]

I literally don’t care.

 

[BettyCrockerr]

God does she ever stop MOANING?!?!

I know. Apparently “ everyone” is ok but “life is just a lot right now” she says with her voice cracking as if she’s about to bawl it. Is it a lot because someone in the real world tagged you in that Facebook post about the swimming pool photo rules and you are in the huff? Yup.

 

[Peachbomb]

Sarah’s search history

“Scottish fridge”
“Fridge for Scottish people”
“Dutch fridge”
“Fridge for people whose husband is deployed”

Oh well, American fridge it is *sigh*