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Today is International Women's Day, which is held annually on the 8th March and thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate achievements. I have to be honest and say that the most inspiring women I know are mums who are juggling children, careers, domestic and professional demands .... what's not inspiring about that?

Most mums will tell you that they just "get on with it", so after speaking with some fellow bloggers, we have compiled a very tongue in cheek survival guide to being a happy mum.

 

1. Accept the fact that you will say all the things your mom said and you promised you wouldn't.

2. Find some perspective and hang on to it.

3. Accept that you will never have a tidy house again (or for the next 20 years anyway) - From Suzanne Whitton 

4. Accept that going to the toilet is no longer a private affair.

5. It is normal to think of the dishwasher as your best friend.  - Both 4 & 5 are from Emma CrazywithTwins

6. Accept that you can't do everything on time, to the standard that you'd like you and also accept that if you do manage to do this, other mums, like me, will get you when we next see you in the playground. - Love this one from Liz Weston

7. Don't worry about leaving the house in your pajamas/ with shreddies in your hair/ with yesterday's make up on- as long as you leave the house! - From Susanne Remic

8. Come to terms with the fact that the music you randomly start humming at the bus stop will no longer be the latest chart topper but instead your childs favourite nursery rhyme or theme tune to their most watched TV show! - From Jennifer Dixon 

9. Put everything of value (financial or sentimental) on a high shelf and move it upwards as the children get taller. By the time they're 15 you should probably have anything you care about (that isn't human) stored in the loft. - From Jenny Leonard

10. Expect nothing. Enjoy everything!

 

"Here's to amazing women, let us know them, let us raise them, let us be them"

 

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Do you remember when you were younger and your mom would say "she is 12 going on 21" and typically you would roll your eyes and think it was just Mom being silly and dramatic? Unfortunately when I became a Mom myself, I find myself saying the same old cliche's I heard my own parents say but the worrying this is ..... my daughter isnt 12, she is 7.

Everyone says that children grow up faster these days and I frantically hold onto my daughter's childhood because once that innocence is gone, it is lost forever. With the introduction of technology into their little lives, they are exposed to different mediums of influence (a previous post shared my "love"  and consequent confiscation of the iPod) I was a little horrified to hear slight twangs of an American accent coming out of her mouth influenced from some of the programmes she watches and I long for the day when Fifi Forget Me Not was the programme she loved most!

This weekend everything was "boring" or "borrrrrrrring" if I am saying it correctly (am clearly down with the kids) and this is where I have to remember that I am the grown up. Sometimes her behaviour amuses me as I see her growing up and developing her personality but arguing with me is not amusing and we had quite a bit of that this weekend! She was certainly reminded about her boundaries!

I am sure I could start a whole new blog about how my 7 year old thinks she is a teenager but I am sure she will get to a point where she doesn't want me to write about her at all, so for now I will just say that she is "7 going on 17" and wait for her to roll her eyes at me, like I did when I was 12.