"So much more efficient"

I wrote this blog days ago and with all things, I lost it by having too many children scrambling over me / demanding things.

Well, "Efficient". Mmmm, that is the comment an ex fellow housewife said to me after her return to the world of suits last week. "I am much more efficient now."

What the frig does that mean? How can you measure efficiency in housewivery? After all, most of the job is being there for our children when they need us and if any of the traditional housewife jobs get done, well that is a bonus.

So, because she is back at work, she deems herself being more efficient as her house is tidy all the time (with the help of the cleaner I do add). Now my house would be tidy if I didn't have children in it through the day, eating, breathing, and PAINTING! (SSShhhh proper housewives never allow paints in their homes - they "go out" to paint!)

But, how on earth does this make you efficient?

I have time to dawdle on the way back from school, to change our minds about what we are doing and do something completely random.

And are my children clinging to my apron strings without an ounce of confidence because I don't farm them out (apart from pre-school)??? Not on your nelly, they are desperate to escape from me!!!! (Does also help I don't own an apron and I am sure if I did the strings would be long ago frayed and fallen off!)


So, she is more efficient now, and I am still left pondering how I can work out if I am achieving my targets as a comepetent housewife.