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A witty blog by a working mother in Ireland describing her life there. She loses her job and finds out she is pregnant - during a recession! It is about an Irish Mammy under stress and features a sharp motherly commentary on today's social and profes
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There IS something about Mary Robinson
Where to start? Well after 8 months of a PACUB fuelled life now I can see the Christmas tree from the piles of unattended ironing and the to-do list spilling over the table. We have decided as a committee to "put it on ice" as we like to call it...
Horses,dogs and pubs more valued than our kids
Click here to play - TV3 video PACUB and NWCI I didn't want to mention PACUB in this post. To mention the 8 long months of hard work. To mention the great girls who have given up their time for the campaign against cuts to child benefit. I didn...
It costs too much to have kids in Ireland!
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Why everyone is entitled to child benefit
Recently several PACUB (Protest Against Child Unfriendly Budget) supporters have been busy on the radio and in the media generally promoting the petition at www.childbenefit.info and encouraging parents to lobby their local politicans. Obviously with...
Due tomorrow, apologies blog
Dear blog,I discovered that the word blog stands for web log, it is a log on the web of my supposedly daily activities. Like a public diary. At the moment I have been lapse, diving in and out of you, my blog, on a need-to basis. In the beginning I vi...
Baby, we're ready for you!
39 weeks plus 3 days today ... on a glorious bank holiday Monday 1st of June, next Friday 5th of June I am 40 weeks - in other words this is my official due date. Although we know from having junior (15 days late following an induction) that baby cho...
YES WE CAN!
Yesterday a delegation from PACUB (Protest Against Child Unfriendly Budget) met with Finian Mc Grath Ind TD and back bencher in the current Government. The meeting was very successful and basically Deputy Mc Grath supports the child benefit issue and...
3 Angry (very) Pregnant Mammies
Just read a really good post over at Jen's about her not being in the mood (for anything basically, on the account of her being so heavily pregnant I think she is now 38/39 weeks as well). So there are three of us late-stage heavily pregnant mammy bl...
PACUB letter response from Labour and Fine Gael
Well hot off the presses Fine Gael's Enda Kenny and Labour's Joan Burton, win the 'I have a template to respond to all these child benefit protest letters' award. I posted in on Tuesday and I got a response on Wednesday!Labour Leader Eamon Gilmore an...
Dad.ie helps promote PACUB
My big thanks to Dad.ie who has given the campaign a mention on his website, please go visit his site and have a read of the latest PACUB interview.Don't forget to continue to send your nappies this week --- sign the online petition at www.childbenef...
Ready, Steady -- Nappy!
Yesterday in the pouring rain, a couple of mammy volunteers managed to collect -- 1,000 --- signatures outside the GPO in under 2 hours. The petition asks the Irish Government to re-consider their plans to means-test, tax or cut in any way child ben...
Eurovision Addicts Anonymous
"My name is 'himself' and I have a problem - I am a Eurovision Addict"Yes my husband's problem is that he is a Eurovision addict. So much so ... that I can see him in standing in a circle in the room uttering the words: " hello my name is -------- an...
Hey Taoiseach - leave our kids alone!
"Hey Taoiseach - where's my benefit?"So on Thursday last I was supposed to get up early to arrange the photoshoot in Dublin city with 3 toddlers. The idea was bins + children. As in 'Don't bin our benefits' or having kids looking into the bins wonde...
If I were Queen for a day...
Apparantely I am awesome or correctly put "Queen of alll things awe-summm!!!" How cool is that? My good blogger buddy 'Yummy Mummy' has awarded me thus. My first award. I am not doing to do the Kate Blanchett, I am not going to forget whatshername bu...
Parents of Ireland - unite!
Well there you have it, a massive step for two mammies to appear on TV3 - The Morning Show with Sybil & Martin - and hopefully it will result in a massive boost to the petition. Already the http://www.childbenefit.info/ site has had a huge amount...
Don't mess with the PACUB mammies
Irish Mammy has been 'outed'. So I'm no longer able to hide behind my anonymity. Today, I entered the strange and weird world of TV. Tomorrow on TV3 at 11am, on the all new 'Morning Show with Sybil & Martin' you can see more...I have to say both...
Mammy tantrums
Wow what a reception we are getting to the PACUB off-line petition and the new online version of the petition (no sign in to Facebook required). There are some mighty angry people out there. I wouldn't like to be a politican door-stepping any one of ...
1,500 signatures - eyebrows please!
It all began with a handful of people a couple of weeks ago - saying 'no' we are simply not going to lie down and take all these financial hits. We are not playing the soft Irish anymore, scared of standing up for our rights. We are playing our part ...
My to do list for next 2 weeks
Send letter to local TDs, download template from http://www.childbenefit.info/Launch phase 2 of media campaign with PACUB committeePrepare nappies to be sent to sent to The Taoiseach, Mr Brian Cowen, Leinster House, Dublin 2 on the 18th of MayPrepare...
Could the real O'bama please stand up?
Baby is due the same day as the local and European elections (June 5th). This baby will be cocooned by a protesting mother for the last few embroynic weeks. When it comes a-screaming to the world what will await him or her? Will the PACUB nappy prote...
A mammy also needs mothering
I know I have been absent. Also apologies to my fellow bloggers, you are soo good at giving comments and I haven't had the time to really go and visit your blogs. I will. I think the next two weeks will have me spinning but after that... I hope...I c...
34 week check up & nappy protest update & local elections
It appears I am too busy at the moment. I just about remembered my 34 week check up this morning at the hospital. I completely forgot about my 32 week check up at the GP. Oppsss..slap on wrists... (update - we are doing well, apart from little nuisan...
I dreamed a dream...
I love Susan Boyle, what a fantastic voice!!! A secret her little cat Pebbles has been keeping to himself for over 40 years. When talent like this has been discovered it is so heart-warming! Imagine if she never took part in the contest, what a wast...
73 members and growing!
A huge thank you to all the people who have kindly signed up to the PACUB - Protest Against Child Unfriendly Budget over at Facebook. If you haven't already done so, get over there and sign in to support the protest. Also big thanks to Jen's Rantings...
Update on nationwide nappy protest
How do I manage to do it? Fill in every second of possible spare time that could benefit a pregnant mother of 33 weeks and one crazy stripping toddler? Well I do it very well. Last night woke in a panic with all the things I have to do in the next th...
