There was so many funny scenes too - when Ellen offered to look after her best friend’s overactive and demanding toddler Edward for a night, you just know there will be trouble. From the terrible two’s, starting school and hormonal teenager angsts, this series covers EVERYTHING and more! Both Jane and Peter are just so typical of today’s youth, caring more about keeping up with Instagram and how fast the broadband speed is. It felt instantly reassuring to know I haven’t been alone with the same issues that Ellen was experiencing. She’s feeling overwhelmed and under appreciated, juggling work with family and trying to hold it all together while remaining sane.Īs a mother of three grown up sons, I could immediately relate to Ellen and the family situations she finds herself in. Amidst the chaos of A-Levels, driving tests and trying to impress the opposite sex, she’s doing her best to keep her family afloat. Now her beloved ‘moppets’, Jane and Peter, are ready to finish with school and a different set of parenting problems are arising. She’s feeling overwhelmed and under appreciated, and the only thing that Mummy knows for sure is that the bigger the kids, the bigger the drink.īestselling author Gill Simms returns with her fourth and final instalment in the ‘Why Mummy.’ series with “Why Mummy’s Sloshed”.Įllen has been a wife and mother for so long that she’s a little bit lost. And despite her best efforts, her precious moppets still don’t know the location of the laundry basket, the difference between being bored and being hungry, or that saying ‘I can’t find it Mummy’ is not the same as actually looking for it.Īmidst the chaos of A-Levels and driving tests, she’s doing her best to keep her family afloat, even if everybody is set on drifting off in different directions, and that one of those directions is to make yet another bloody snack. Mummy has been a wife and mother for so long that she’s a little bit lost. I have literally never stood wistfully in the supermarket and thought ‘Oh, how I wish someone was trailing behind me constantly whining ‘Mummy, can I have, Mummy can I have?’ while another precious moppet tries to climb out the trolley so they land on their head and we end up in A
And despite the busybody old women who used to pop up whenever I was having a bad day and tell me I would miss these days when they were over, I don’t miss those days at all. It genuinely never occurred to me when they were little that this would ever end – an eternity of Teletubbies and Duplo and In The Night Bastarding Garden and screaming, never an end in sight. I just wanted them to stop wittering at me, eat vegetables without complaining, let me go to the loo in peace and learn to make a decent gin and tonic. Number One bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited fourth and final Why Mummy novel.
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