The Not Drowning Mother (NDM) has got three small children (Mr Justice, 6, The Pixie, 4, and Tiddles McGee, 2) and she hasn’t managed to have a shower today, let alone brush her hair. Have you got a problem with that??
She once lived in London, drank pints of lager, wore groovy clothes and laughed a lot. Ha ha ha ha ha!
Nowadays, she lives in a deeply unfashionable inner-suburb of a large Australian city, drinks pints of cheap fizz, favours “op-shop chic” and still laughs a lot, although often her laughter turns into uncontrollable sobbing.
She heartily welcomes all comments on her blog, particularly the flattering ones. If you would prefer to contact her via a less public forum, please feel free to email her at notdrowningmother@gmail.com
You can also follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheNDM
I love your blog! And yes, your family can do without clean underwear for a while, turning them inside out makes them last for a few more days, keep writing!
Amy L. Thomas
Love it, this is the funniest and freshest take on motherhood I’ve read in ages. Will get RSS feed and send to all my similarly encumbered friends. xxxx
I love your blog. I only miss it when I’m desperately needed in grave, life-altering, earth-shattering events.
Love your blog, love your sense of humour! Also just discovered the Gallery of Domestic Godlessness – brilliant!!
Keep up the good work
I love it…and my wilder side envies it!!! I love that you’re a realistic person and mom-
I love your blog, thanks for letting me include your post in my carnival. It gave it an international flavour! I’m sitting here on the other side of the world from you, planning a trip to Australia next year with similar aged children to yours (7, 5, 3), so if you have any itinerary ideas, I’d love to hear them. I visited Australia almost twenty years ago (God it makes me feel old when I say that) and loved WA, so plan to go there again, and we’ll fly into Sydney from NZ, but other than that we don’t have plans and I’m not sure where the best places are for small kids. Lonely Planet’s not much help with children. Thanks
You are hilarious and I love your writing. Please tell me you’re writing a book. If you are, please get out your manuscript and finish it now. And then send me a complimentary copy which I will rave about on my blog.