My husband is perfect…

Its driving me crazy.I know that really I shouldn’t hold this against him but my husband is perfect. He shares the household chores (OK he does most of them), he’s the one who remembers to clean the sink and loads the dishwasher. He cooks sometimes and takes an equal responsibility for the childcare. If my son is ill then the school should phone the husband….However the thing that annoys me is that everybody tells me how damn wonderful he is!! If a woman were to do the same then nobody would mention it.  When I was studying accountancy people would ask me what the husband did whilst I was studied (to which I was always tempted to answer wank); when I have to stay over night for work people ask me where my son is (tied to the radiator) and seem to think that at home with his dad is a surprising answer…The school don’t phone the husband- however explicit my instructions…

My eye..I lied

I am currently taking a week off work due to an eye injury. My son poked me in the eye with his finger nail. It hurt like hell…then hurt some more…This is the closest I’ve come to taking time off work for child related reasons…and I’ve lied about how the injury occurred. In my workplace parents with children are allowed 2 days special leave to cover breakdown of childcare arrangements etc. I have never taken this…  I feel it would undermine my position as a career focused women…the person who sits opposite me seems to have a child who often makes her late, absent or leave early…  Anyway I have yet again been completely impressed by the NHS- the injury occurred whilst away for the weekend (Blackpool, staying with friends not doing the tacky kiss me quick thing). I spent all day convincing myself that surely the problem would disappear but no such luck- so I ended up in A+E on bank holiday Sunday…where I was seen and treated within an hour. It was efficient polite and effective. Today I went to the eye clinic for a follow up; it was similarly quick, efficient, pleasant etc. The only thing I would change are the chairs- they are arranged in a kind of maze which makes it difficult to find a seat without volting over a row of chairs…tricky to negotiate with an eye injury..