Good evening, on this, the 83rd of January, 2018.
It is Sunday night once again. Mammy has a list of things she needs to do, but after running around the house for the past 90 minutes finding schoolbags, and lunchboxes and searching for the magical tie and parts of the uniform that get blown to the 4 corners of the earth on a Friday evening, Mammy is fit for NOTHING except parking her posterier on the sofa.
Mammy had some lovely friends over for an impromptu dinner last night. Mammy spent 45 minutes speed cleaning the rooms in which her lovely friends would be. It is amazing just how much Mammy can get done when faced with the thought of lovely friends coming to visit. (Not that lovely friends give a continental shite what state Mammy’s Layer of Love is in, but still.) And so Mammy managed to blitz the kitchen, tidy, move, clean bathrooms, mop floors and clean glass, all so that she could apologize for the “state of the place” when the lovely friends arrived.
How ridonculous eh?
“Good evening Lovely Friends, please doooooo come in and look at how homely and coziful Mammy’s practically perfect in every way home is on this fine evening. I must apologize for the layer of love. Please do not judge Mammy for the mess of her candlelt kitchen… Woulds’t one likest some cucumber in one’s gin?“
Ready for catch ups
And of course the response from one of the lovely friends was “Yeah yeah. The place looks great. Shut up and start pouring.”
The evening was lovely until Princess decided to have her firt EVER nightmare just before 1am. The poor little cretur screamed so loudly that one of Lovely Friends almost spilled her cucumbery gin over herself. And so Mammy had to bid her lovely friends Adieu and take the High-temperatured, sweaty little shaking mess away from the “Bug Bear under me bed” and into our bed.
On the up side, The Him was happily left entertaining lovely friends AND HE did all the cleaning up of Mammy’s showhouse worthy kitchen before he went to bed. And so the remnants of the Heavenly Indian takeaway we had, were gone when I got up.
Could lick the screen…
Fear not however my Mammies. The house is once again a mess and all pretentious notions have left Mammy. Mammy is back in reality, smiling at how quickly Mini-Me and Princess recreated their Layer of Love and glad to have such Lovely friends to speed-clean-for-them-to-not-notice anyway.
I am now ready for bed, hoping and praying that there is no bear or monster under Princess’s bed tonight.
Hope you had a lovely weekend and that you are ready for the last 38 days of January.
The S-Mum
The S-Mum 
Kids are such killjoys. They always ruin our play dates ☹️
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Haha!
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Hilarious – love the ‘Layer of Love’ expression, mess always seems better when there is a positive spin on it! 🙂
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I could put spin on a Slurry pit! 😂🚜
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LOL eeew spun-slurry not a great thought! 😂😂 Just sent an email to you.xx
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Yay! xx
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Very well done. Lovely post. It’s funny how even when the friends coming round are close ones who would understand the house being a bit untidy we still stress ourselves to try and make it look like a show room 😂.
I like how you call your other half HE or Him. Mine is called Mr whenever I’m referring to him online, and he’s even started answering to this name.
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I know! Yeah he gets The Him all the time now, even in comments. Thanks for reading xx
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