Stop the clock! I’m pathetically proud that I can get myself and my two children up, washed, dressed and breakfasted in 45 minutes without help. Like many working mums, I had plenty of chance to perfect this morning routine before my eldest started school because I returned to work when she was nine months old. Perhaps that makes me a ‘smug mum’, as opposed to the ‘slummy mums’ recently shamed in the national press for doing the school run in their pyjamas.
OK, I admit that I rarely wear make-up and that my outfits are not the best put together, but when we leave the house we’re all fed and appropriately dressed for the day ahead – I’m not shuffling through the school gates in my slippers and PJs.
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