Diaries of a yummy mummy.

Hello, this is my first go at the narcissistic world of blogging.

I hope someone, anyone, enjoys reading this, and if not, at least it's cheap therapy for me.

The Modern Housewife's Companion is about my experience as a young mum in Australia in 2009. Obviously my experience is just that, mine, but I have to believe there are other people who share some of these experiences.

It's about how when you've been immersed in a career where you're "someone" and you suddenly become an anonymous "mum".

It's about the terror of making the wrong decision as a parent.

It's about being judged by your peers and anyone else who wants to put their two bob's worth in about how you're doing things.

It's about how our society pays lip service to motherhood and won't put its money where its mouth is.

It's about the enormous guilt you feel when your children don't bring you the complete and utter fulfilment you're always promised.

And it's about the pressure you put on yourself to be that yummy mummy (and I hope you appreciate the irony in the title of this post), who bounces back, does a million things, balances career with family, earns good money, has a great figure, a wonderful husband and a mind-blowing sex life.

So, in short, it's about me having a rant.