#03 What I Wore: Sometimes I wish I Were A Man, The Elusive Perfect Pair Of Jeans, Putting Myself Out There & Culling Consumption.

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Last night, I caught myself fantasising of what it would be like to be a man. Not just a man but a man with a wife and children. A man who can compartmentalise. Who can seperate family life and work life and focus on the task at hand. One who when physically leaves a setting can emotionally leave too. Okay, maybe I am generalising and I am scorned by my own thoughts and responsibilities of being a female, a mother, and in a heterosexual relationship (with a man I adore and who tries his best, I might add in case he is reading this and one who I know doesn’t shrug off home life easily).

Sometimes I do wish I was a man who was brought up to put myself first. A man who does not care for whether there is another tin of formula in the cupboard or if our son has his library book to return. Who does not need to remember if our son’s googles are in his swim bag or if the children are up-to-date with their needles. Who does not fill his mind with nonsense like sleep routines and introductions to solids or worry that the baby may in fact be allergic to peanuts among other things. Or that he has not yet booked an appointment with the paediatrician. Have zero concerns for the sheets that remain unwashed. That there is only one yoghurt pouch left. That we have three (!!!) children’s birthday parties this weekend, all of which require gifts. It’s no trouble at all that the weather has cooled and the baby has no warm sleep suits. That the washing has lived on our kitchen table for the better part of this month or that the office still is not set up because “whatever you like” is usually the answer. Agh. It must be nice. Really. So very nice to focus on a single thing at any given time. But perhaps even if I was a man then I would still be cursed with this overthinking brain of mine. I digress…

Below the paywall you will find:

• Motherhood – Why jeans are the one piece I believe every mum needs and how to get that elusive, effortless, perfect-fitting pair.

• Creativity – how to put yourself out there more and why it’s not about going viral.

• Fashion – clothes and consumption culling plus what I read.

• Recs- What I’m eyeing off and what I bought this week.