Life: Boll*cks to Perfectionism!

What a blast it was to chat on about being a GEM (a 'Good Enough Mother') live on stage at The Vitality Show yesterday. The mums seemed to love the quotes from real mothers on what it means to be 'good enough.' I think it gave themm permission to go easy on themselves when I dished the dirt on how other women do it. A show of hands in the audience revealed a shocking amount of t-towel and bed linen ironing going on across the UK and beds getting changed every week. What's all that then? What about the bed bugs trying to make a home? And the environmental impact? I've given up trying to get to the bottom of our laundry basket too, reasoning that I should (and do) have better things to do than strive for emptyness (except for 60 minutes once a week in a yoga class which is very worthwhile I grant you).