It’s just over a week until Mother’s Day, yet this weekend is all about Mothers for me as I will be attending the Tesco Mum of the Year event in Central London where I get a chance to meet some of the awe-inspiring winners and find the secret to having their energy and determination!
But for those of you patiently counting down the hours until your annual lie-in- even if Mother’s Day this years falls on the shortest day of the year– there’s still reason to get excited about Mother’s Day this weekend. A Ferrero Rocher Giveaway for Mother’s Day.
The lovely people at Ferrero Rocher want to celebrate your brilliance, your energy, your determination, and are giving away two prizes:
a pack of Confetteria Raffaello for one lucky winner
and a box of Ferrero Collection for a second winner.
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning yourself or your mum a delicious box of Ferrero Treats is tell me your biggest #mumfail.
Follow the link to the Rafflecopter entry form below, add your details and your #mumfail (or someone else’s!) and you could win some delicious treats in time for Mother’s Day!
Going to school with their apron still on
My Mum fail was thinking I could have a casual glass of wine with lunch with my other friends whilst the kids were happy playing and my daughter came up to me and gave me an unexpected hug which knocked the wine all over her! She was not pleased! Always be prepared for a cuddle 😀
#mumfail Arriving at school after the bell has rung every single morning despite saying we will leave earlier!
#Mum fail getting woken up at 6:15 to get ready for school – turns out its an inset day yippie!!
getting them dressed for school on a saturday lol
Joyfully throwing my daughter up in the air, forgetting I was in a doorway :/
my mum fail was forgetting dress down day until i realised my son was the only one in uniform
I went to pick Son up from nursery school, put him in the car and forgot to put my daughter in. I started up the car and she knocked on the car window.oops. She has never let me or her brother forget it either
Mum fail – not checking the answerphone and dragging son to a dentist’s appointment in the pouring rain.
I’ve known people go in over 18 shops and leave there kids outside 🙁
I forgot about a birthday party my daughter had been invited to
Turning up on non school uniform day with 2 children in full uniform, running home, running back to the school in the pouring rain to get them a new outfit #mumfail
Feeding a baby while web surfing
Losing track of the time whilst out shopping and having to rush back to pick my daughter up 20 mins after everyone else had gone home.
Totally forgetting it was my first sons first school nativity..rushing to get there and just catching the very end
Never knowing what my daughter fancy for tea ( As if I can Read minds) Nearly every time I cook tea you can image “as most of you have kids” She doesn’t fancy that and says their is not anything in the cupboard that she fancies when the cupboards fill’ she always says I should know what she wants How I hate Tea- times
Leaving the sudocrem unattended, multiple times!
I have gave water and raisins to my child and told him they were pop and sweeties
Getting diggers mixed up with dumper trucks #mumfail
A phone call this last Friday from the grandson’s school telling me he was crying and wouldn’t stop because he was the only one in his class not in tracksuit-told the teacher to tell him I’d sort it, drove to daughter’s house, couldn’t find tracksuit, drove to nearest shop, bought tracksuit, drove to school, handed it over telling them to make sure they took tags off and tell him he looked great even if he didn’t, then drove home. When will my daughter remember to check school letters? Sports Relief is so important- so it cost me a fair bit more than the 1.00 donation!!
Getting birthdays on the wrong day
walking out of a shop with things under my pram in the basket #mumfail (i did go bk and pay when i realised lol)
My friends mum dropped her off at school not realising it was the start of half term…
A couple of times I have gone shopping and forgotten to take the changing bag so have ended up having to buy nappies and wipes so I can change the little man.
Turning my daughters favourite PINK swimsuit grey in the wash. #mumfail
Thinking a bus is at the bus stop so going around it to find traffic LOL #Mumfail
Sitting down and talking to the complete wrong teacher for five minutes at parents evening! #mumfail
dropping my kids off at school on a teacher training day!! oops
leaving the new baby in the pram outside a shop and forgetting I had him.
I have 8 so I have had alot of fails hehe but less with each one 😛 My biggest fail is getting their names wrong lol
It’s my mum’s #Mumfail from year ago. We went on a school trip to the British Museum. She took a group of us around, then had to pop to the loo, but couldn’t take us all in. Needless to say when she came out half the kids had gone off to ‘explore’ on their own! When she finally gathered us together, found out where we were (she was lost by this point) and dashed to the exit, the school bus was all ready to leave. She never volunteered to do a school trip again! Still, it’s probably more memorable now than it would have been had we not had our mini adventure!
walking out with my sons book bag from school, almost everyday! i dno why i do it!
Most recently – going to give my youngest a hug. He started saying, “No, go way, get off”. I laughed, thinking he was playing with me and hugged him…until he said “No mummy, get off my foot!” Whoops!
eeee dropping my sons carefully crafted art project! clay shatters *sigh*
I left the house with my daughter to walk her to school. We were half way down the road when she said “mummy don’t I need my shoes on for school?”
checking out my teenage daughter’s PE teachers rather nice arse in a none to subtle way apparently!
It has to be when my daughter brought her first boyfriend home for a meal. I was told that he loved banana custard – so what did I do, and it was an accident honestly, I put salt in instead of custard. The look on their faces was priceless. We often laugh about it now but the relationship didn’t last long after that!!
The first time my mum took me out after I was born she went into a shop, came out and walked down the street, it was only when someone asked her how her baby was, did she realise she had left me in the previous shop!!!!
sending my children into school in fancy dress… the friday before it was actually dress up day 🙁 oops
my mum fail was sending my son to school forgetting his packed lunch, he was very upset but luckily school give him a hot dinner
with 7 kids I am sure there are many, and my kids could probably tell you loads but my most recent one was arriving at school just as the bell went on a monday morning taking my youngest into class where the teachers, helpers etc were all ready to waiting to go on a day trip which they were supposed to leave at dead on nine so had asked for children to be there at 8.45 and I had forgotten all about it and I had also forgotten to do a packed lunch, rushed home and managed to put one together and be back at school in just over 10 minutes
sent me to school as a toddler with no pants on 🙁
Forgetting to pick my child up from nursery.
mistaking LOL for lots of love instead of laugh out loud! #mumfail
my friend cut her daughters fringe and it went horribly wrong, it cost her more to get the hairdressers to sort of put it righh!
i traumatised my poor daughter when she was 6 or 7 by convincing her the plug monster would come and get her if she didnt hurry up and get out the bath..after asking her 4 or 5 times to get out i resorted to lying about the monster and said the noise you hear as the water is draining away is actually the monster coming up the plug hole to get her.. when it made a loud sucking noise as the last of the water drained away, she leapt out the bath like a cat and wrapped herself soaking wet round my neck and screamed the place down… i was laughing so hard i nearly wet myself.. shes 11 now and still reminds me to this day that there is infact no plug monster..
Forgot to set my alarm which made my daughter late for school
Putting red socks in with the white school shirts
Melting daughters favourite dress with hot iron 🙁
#mumfail my mom forgot it was results day! Yikes!
My daughter recently texed me very smugly to announce that her tearaway toddler, my beautiful granddaughter, had gone to bed without issue and gone straight to sleep.
Not long after sending the text my daughter sneaked into to check on her, to find her bed empty. Running into the bathroom she found her sitting on the floor with her teddies and tea-set, having a toilet-water tea party!
My friends mum forgot to pick us up from school once, we waited for ages and debated starting to walk home!
I forgot to set the alarm and had my husband carer banging on the door
I nearly forgot to pick my daughter up from her dance rehearsal 🙂
brought my son to school forgetting its teacher training day ! once my son had to dress in green for school, I never checked what he packed in his backpack to wear and only found out after school that he had packed a pj !
deciding to cut my sons hair myself to save a few quid, oops!
I was playing with my hamster on the stairs teaching it to climb up to my bedroom when mum came around the corner carrying the washing. There was a crunch. She had stood on my hamster. All I remember is her running down the bottom of the garden trying to resuscitate him. Sadly after all her efforts he died. #mumfail
according to my son this week my epic fail was to put lace up shoes on him for school when he had pe 🙁
she filed the secondary school application pack away and forgot until after the deadline
sent my daughter to school in her socks !!!
not getting my son anything for his twenty first gave him money but not till a week later, took him for a birthday meal but not till the night after his birthday.
My mum sings ‘don’t touch me’, instead if ‘can’t touch this’
Not being able to find the recipe for Italian Biscotti, that my son needed for his GCSE Cookery exam (He probably needed to find this himself, but I still feel guilty because of the appalling outcome) after we’d guessed at the quantities….and he got a ‘C’!!
I made a blue spider cake for her third birthday (Woolly from Woolly & Tig)…looked great but all the blue food colouring turned all her guest’s poo blue the next day!!
mum forgot where she parked the car and we had to walk home lol
Way too many to list.
dropping my sons new car keys down the drain!
my son said he had a hole in his school shoe. i said id get some new ones on my way home from work and he said “thankgod. That hole has been there ages”. I didnt know!
… not becoming a Mum 🙁
forgot it was sunday and took my little girl to school!!
forgetting about no uniform day at school!
I forgot Mufti day once and my daughter came out of school crying, I really felt bad 🙁
My youngest brother once told our mother he had made a drawing he would like to send it to a museum, as soon as my mother saw it she burst out laughing!
My mum accidentally shut my brothers fingers in the car door!! 🙂
Mothers day.. I hate it, hate receiving gifts. Rather be a giver.
My mum’s last fail was failing to check oil levels before a 3 hour drive and breaking down…luckily at a service station rather than on the motorway!
walked my son all the way to nursery with his shoes on the wrong feet….sad part of the story is that I put them on him!!
Mainly cooking of which there are many fails :(( Toad in the hole using the wrong flour comes to mind 🙂
MY MUM does not make mistakes
My nan had appointment to go to the memory clinic.. but forgot to go!! #nanfail #mymumsmum #mumfail
My recent #mumfail was forgetting to dress my little girl up for World Book Day – she was the only one and I felf awful 🙁
had appointment but went to wrong hospital.
I stayed at my mums one night whilst she was away and had builders working in the house, I woke up the following morning to find id slept walked in the night and poured a bag of quick setting concrete down the toilet. she wasn’t best pleased with me.
dropping a tumble dryer out of the attic on to my grown up daughters head and giving her concussion. i mean who puts a tumble dryer in an attic and i thought those bonded plugs would not fall off when a tumble dryer was hung 10 feet in the air off them!!!
So Sorry Ashleigh
i love you really i do
My mum slept in on the day of my school trip to France.. That was interesting waking up 15 minutes before I was supposed to be at school..
I have at least one #mumfail a day! This time it was forgetting to put a clean nappy on my little boy after taking off his dirty one. I buttoned up his sleep suit, put him back into his sleeping bag and into his cot, turned around and there was the clean nappy still on his changing dresser. Duh!
Disastrous homemade costumes for school
taking the kids swimming and forgetting to bring towels !
Going food shopping and forgetting to take bebit card
#mumfail making them eat my cooking eek
You mean like dressing your daughter up as The Singing Mermaid for WBD at school. A whole week early. Like that? Pfft who would do that?! 😉
My mum swore and then said oh sorry I mean and swore again.
Making them eat all my awful cooking.
#mumfail Going out to the shop without her purse
Going on holiday and realising you haven’t brought a hair brush..
Not spending as much time with them as i should…work gets in the way and shouldnt
My mum went shopping with her indoor shoes on!
putting salt in my daughters birthday cake.
I have them all the time, forgetting appointments and non uniform days
I’m always loosing the toggle/woggle? for my sons Beavers scarf and hes forever telling me off for it.
Just one? I have several of them on a daily basis, but I think expecting too much might be one of them. I sometimes forget that Amy is still only 2 and although she can be incredibly independent and bright, she is still only a little girl x
I will give you one of my mother’s #mumfail’s. When I was a small boy, just in primary school, we walked to together to the school, and just before I left her to go to class, she told me that, as they were renovating part of the school, I had to get to the classroom by going through the toilets. However, she neglected to mention that it was the girl’s toilets I had to go through. So after all the other kids had gone in, I followed behind, because I was shy and didn’t like being with the other kids. When I got into the little boys room, I could find the other door. So I immediately started crying, and returned to the playground looking for my mummy, but she wasn’t there. So I hugged the nearest lamppost, and stayed there for the whole day, because the primary school kids played in the junior school playground that day, due to the renovations.
in my eyes my mum never failed at anything, if she did, she hid it really well…lol
#mumfail – accidentally mixing up my swimsuits (my youngest wasn’t happy I’d forgotten his trunks but remembered a lovely pink princess swimsuit. Oops).
House sitting at friends and trying to cook dinner and trying to light the oven with a match and not realising it was an electric oven, until a four year old pointed it out!
Attending Event :- Day early (embarrassing, though luckily mean’t could still attend Event :- next day). Staff luckily pleasant, and understanding, which eased embarrassment.
my mum is the best cooker…………
putting a video tape in the video recorder sideways, it got jammed and the machine which cost a fortune at the time was broken!
our Daughter is a new Mum, she is loving every minute of it and is looking forward to, her 1st Mother’s Day!
My mum once cooked a meal that said one clove of garlic and she thought it meant the whole thing!!!
Sending the kids to school on a PD day
Attempting to cut my son’s hair myself. That will teach me to stop being so tight 🙂
Winging the weights on making gingerbread men as the scales broke mid weigh out – ended up with some weird cake thing
Eating my lunch over my daughter who was nursing and dropping pickled beetroot on to her!!
Too many to mention but possibly the recent one of buying a child in Emmy’s class a Barbie for their birthday present, turning up at the party to discover they were in fact male.
Damn those unisex names
I fortunately don’t remember this but I’ve heard it so many times that I feel like I can! My mum was big on baking and freezing – one weekend she made a large batch of Cornish pasties and apple turnovers. Later that week we all sat down to apple turnover and custard when, apparently, a loud wail went up from my vicinity. Yes, you guessed it. I had Cornish pasty and custard! The dog enjoyed it, by all accounts!
I got my Mum a digital cooking thermometer to use when she’s making chutneys and jams. She said it didn’t work properly and kept showing the same temperature all the time. A quick inspection revealed that he hadn’t bother to take the sticker off the digital screen. #mumfail
Homemade costumes.
My Mum cooked the last frozen pizza and managed to cook it with the plastic base still attached…
Accidentally dropping my son’s brand new tamagotchi down the drain
Today was an epic one, we went swimming but I forgot the kit. Had to placate with a McFlurry.
forgetting it was non uniform day
Leaving my keys in reach of the 1 yr old this morning, for him to then hide them and after a 20min panic eventually found them in the car box! Mad rush to preschool, we were only 10 mins later after running there!! x
Going to my daughters friends birthday party a day late!
At my daughter’s school’s International Day she as supposed to go to school dressed in India’s national flag colours. I completely forgot about it on the morning and she went to school in her school uniform. Needless to say when she came home from school that day she was not very impressed with me!
Deciding to pop out to the shops getting to the end of the road and realising I had left my baby asleep in the house!!!
I thought babies kept the swim reflex so the first time i took my daughter swimming at 3 months I just plopped her in then looked in horror as she sank.
(She’s was OK though I fished her back out)
Forgetting all the important appointments!!
I dropped my son at nursery and went to work, finished work came home and had a cuppa….half an hour later…..Where’s Elliot?? Erm…waiting at nursery for me to pick him up 🙁 #Abandonedchild!
Trying to juggle too much at the same time & always dropping the most important thing!
To many to list but this week I have forgotten T’s parents evening and made a shocking attempt at a sporting hero costume for E for tomorrow. Roll on the weekend!