FML!

So do you want to know what happened to me this morning? Did I dazzle my family with my fantastic organisational ability and domestic goddess wonderfulness? Did I bake 3 batches of healthy cookies for my wonderful bleach-toothed family and despatch them in cutesie handcrafted sandwich bags? Did I go out for a 30 min run before work, and then, once showered, apply only a mere sweep of lip balm, before leaving the house looking like Tess Daly on the way to a photo-shoot with Hello!

Er No..I certainly did not… !

What I actually did was spend 20 minutes (20 mins!) trying to change the laces in my sons hi-tops. Yup - 20 whole mins of bewilderment and confusion, trying to work out which lace was which and where they should go and why the new laces I’d bought didn’t match each other. I swear to god I looked at the task every which way, left to right, up and down…..And then I gave up.… only for my son to pick them up and lace them perfectly in seconds. And then I cried,….right there and then, abandoned old laces dangling in hand. Those laces symbolic of how I felt …….My utter uselessness and incompetence as bewildering and ridiculous to me as watching someone putting a bikini on a dog. Yet another task that I used to do in moments, now defeating me. Pathetic.

I’m told that the menopause does strange things to a woman. I’m also told that sharing your feelings with others is therapeutic. Well, I’m definitely feeling out of sorts at the moment, and I’m certainly ready to vent my feelings at someone or something on a daily basis, and at the drop of a hat, so I might as well do it here!

Welcome to the ‘M’ diaries ….

AMW

(Anonymous Menopausal Woman)

#lifelessons #menopause #emotions