The Unmumsy Mum Diary by The Unmumsy Mum

Author:The Unmumsy Mum
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473542181
Publisher: Transworld

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I think it’s highly likely that I made a twat of myself on camera. Not least because it turns out the ‘quick interview’ I had to film was with bloody Amanda Holden! Amanda Holden off the telly, who looks even better in real life than she does on the telly (unfair) and who had a perfect face of make-up, lush hair and a beautifully tailored suit. God, I just looked so bloody disappointing in my H&M maxi dress and mum cardi (one of two I bought in beige solely because it hides my toddler’s biscuit-spit so well). I tried not to sound like a pillock, but I can hear myself now, saying the most cringeworthy of things during my ‘Amanda chat’ (‘Hi, Amanda! I’m Sarah, but I’m perhaps better known online as the Unmumsy Mum!’ Arghhhh). I only hope they edit most of me out before it makes it to telly.

Heidi’s friend, Gemma, had taken her to the tearoom and initially made out that it was just the two of them before revealing the ‘surprise’ that I was there. She cried when I walked in, then I nearly cried and, do you know what? I get it now. I get why she might like my blog and why I like hers – because, in many ways, we are the same. Our circumstances are not the same, because she has been dealt all the shitty cards in life, but as we chatted over dinky sandwiches, a glass of bubbly and some questionably stale crisps, we howled with laughter, and I was sad when it was time to go. There are very few people in life who can change your outlook on things (long-term, I mean, not just momentarily, when you’re watching something on the news) but I have a strong suspicion that Heidi will irreversibly change mine.

I have felt the whack of perspective enough times to know that this new-found friendship with Heidi will not stop me moaning about life with my kids. I will remain the first to jump to the defence of parents having a moan because I think a good moan is actually really helpful when you’re a parent and you’re struggling in some way. Heidi, more than anybody else I know, has perspective by the bucketload, yet still has the odd moan about her kids. On her blog she writes: ‘I have been handed a pair of glasses that make me view the world in a different way to this time last year when I was a normal thirty-two-year-old with two young children driving me round the bend. Things have changed since then. The bend-driving is still the same.’

At some point or another we all need reassurance that we’re not the only one in the struggling-parent boat. It’s massively important to bear in mind the bigger picture (such as how lucky we are compared to some of the stuff going on around us), but it is also understandable, and in my opinion completely forgivable, if you lose

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