Martha Mother

So after confusing the Liebster award with some sort of Oscar nomination, I found out from the very lovely Clare at  Sons Sand And Sauvignon , that she had nominated me to take part in this fun set of questions, so people can get to know us bloggers a little bit better and just spread the love a bit. So big thank you Clare! Here are the rules for all those taking part: 1. Acknowledge and thank the person that nominated you. 2. Use an award image to add to the post. 3. Answer 11 questions given to you 4. Nominate up to 11 blogs 5. Don't forget to let them know! 6. Give them 11 questions to answer. Soooo, here are my questions and answers! 1. Why did you start blogging? I was literally sat on my sofa one day, writing things in my little 'notebook' section of my phone and thought 'hey, I should really see if anyone else likes this' and that was it! It's a great outlet of creativity for me. 2. Which one of your posts is your favourite and why?

While searching eBay for bundles of second-hand clothes, I found myself questioning my parenting ability. Yep, a whole new guilt-ridden low right there. Post-after-post revealed photos of stain, mark, carrot-puree and snot-free ‘used’ children's clothes – like, they could have been exhibited at The White Company and no one would have batted an eyelid.                                                                              Have I been feeding my troupe of three daughters the wrong food? Maybe it's that organic stuff (at £2 a pop) that doesn't stain? Yes, I should feed them that. Maybe they’re hand-feeding their young tribes, while I’m cracking out the Cheerios, so I can cobble together the school lunches at the same time.   ‘Mother guilt’ is much talked of, but is it just me, who as well as the normal ‘am I playing enough?’, ‘am I teaching enough?’, ‘am I too busy writing blog posts?’ who finds this inane, frustrating, soul-consuming feeling comes from the