This blog post has been reposted, with permission, from Bril’s Blog.

So, here goes!
- The nights that my husband is away on tours, I sleep with a hammer under the bed and my neighbor’s phone number on speed dial, in case somebody broke in and I had time only to press one number.
- Sometimes when I switch on the TV, it is set to Disney Junior channel and I secretly enjoy watching it even when my kids are not around.
- I have become so used to 5 minute showers that even now when my kids at 12 and 14 respectively, I bathe as furiously as I did when they were toddlers.
- When my child asks me to read the same story book 10 times in a row, I actually hide it.
- I use frozen food for my kids tiffin sometimes
- I let my toddler watch TV when I need some alone time.
- When asked what do I do the whole day with a baby, I feel like wringing the other person’s neck.
- My cleaning schedule depends on when we are expecting guests
- I sometimes spend the day in pajamas. Don’t shower or clean the house till it is time for my husband to get home
- Sometimes I feel how to other mothers do it all so easily? But then there’s something called “Faking it till you believe it” Maybe they fake it better than I do.
- I’m the kind of mother who forgets to make her kid wash his hands before meals and brush his teeth before sleeping
- If my daughter goes for a swim, that totally counts as a bath
- I let my kids eat everything!
- When my husband said he wouldn’t be able to change the nappy of our baby because he doesn’t like the smell, that night I shoved a used nappy under his pillow just to teach him a lesson. As if I like the smell!
Do you have any confessions that you would like to share?!
Hilarious! I totally agree with 2, 5, 6 and 7.
I am a Work-from-Home-Mum and I must admit that I have never regretted not working outside the home. I totally enjoy the years that I have spent with my daughter (she is eight now), and am grateful for the flexibility that my job allows me. Especially more so that my ‘job’ is something I am passionate about! When my daughter was young, I decided that I would go back to a full-time job when I started feeling frustrated about staying at home. Hasn’t happened yet! Having said that, I must say that this is, of course, a privileged choice to make and I am well aware of that as well, and grateful that I can afford to make this choice.
I just loved 3, 7, and 8!
Two confessions from a non-full-time-working-mom:
I still feel taking long baths is a luxury though the kids have been managing a lot on their own since the time I have begun counseling – it is just because I have managed them during their infancy with only very little outside help and so having quick baths has become a way of life for me!!
The days I feel mentally exhausted with my counseling sessions, I keep story books and drawing books in close proximity of my younger kid and I pretend not to look her way.
Ha ha Aparajita! Nothing to confess there – story books and drawing books are a good idea, not matter the situation you are in. But I totally get your point about eye contact! Sometimes I will spend longer than necessary in the toilet and pretend not to hear, because I can hear my daughter calling me to her room for some inconsequential question – the 100th in that hour! Such a bad mum, no?!
I see this as a funny post, at least some of the points are. But I agree on the frustrations a stay-at-home mom can have. I have had my share of frustrations and joy.
Somewhere I feel the word ‘confessions’ comes from a place of guilt. I do not feel guilty for being frustrated, for doing or not doing things .. just learn, observe, appreciate, enjoy, forgive, move on.