what i've learnt

What I've learnt since becoming a single Mummy..........

I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT TO DO!!!!!!! YAAAAHOOOOOOO (within reason)

and 'whatever I want to do' include many many things.  I will share some of the exciting things I get upto in my own little house.

I can plumb in washing machines!!!! yes, I kid you not!!! I was just as shocked as you are. But little old me can really plumb in washing machines. I don't just mean the making tea, standing right in the light, making constructive comments like "are you sure that pipe goes there?....." kind of plumbing in washing machines. I mean actually connecting pipes and even turning the mains water off and on!!! kind of plumbing in washing machines.

I can also.............and this really is impressive!!!!!

I can also shuv, kick, swear, scream and hoick washing machines out the back door and into the garden!! Then (just coz my life is a bit like this) I can shuv, kick, swear and scream the washing machine. Back into the kitchen, through the dinning room, up the hallway and out the front door!!!!!

During this exciting adventure of single parenthood. I have also discovered that I don't need to book the council to collect such unwanted items as old washing machines. Because as a single parent I live in the type of high class area where even your broken, beaten and abused rubbish gets stolen, within minuets of being on the main road.

other super powers I've acquired since being a single parent include decorating. And I don't just mean slapping a bit of magnolia on. No No i can decorate using a variety of implements. Such as washing up sponges, children's craft equipment and even cutlery!!!

I can move furniture upstairs, then bring it down again, then up again.

I can do gardening!!!!! again with the cutlery that has so many uses.

I can make a weeks worth of groceries last well over a fortnight!!! As I've come to realise that when the yoghurts run out this does NOT mean "there is no food in the house!!!!" as previously suspected.

I have even been known to put oil, water and air in my car!!!!!!! (although I do not feel this new skill has been completely mastered just yet)

and today's lesson..........

I can actually talk to mechanics!!!! real ones in car garages!!!! who'd have guessed they are in fact just men in overalls and not an invading species of alien I feared them to be!!! (may wait to confirm this last statement until after I've picked the car up from its MOT!!!)

And lastly I've learnt that I can say "f'##k you" to the loneliness and that Im OK being on my own with my Babies. And my babies are OK being on there own with there mummy :)