to you working mums out there...

Low maintenance ponies and pre cooking dinners in advance, so if I end up at the yard the family can get on with dinner without needing me there. Housework is a forgotten concept, there appears to be as much bedding on the floor of my house as in the stable at the moment.

I often find myself ironing at midnight because it is the only quiet time I get
 
God only knows!

It all seems to kind of work everyday and everybody seems to get to where they need to be and nobody seems to starve and everybody seems to be kind of happy most of the time and sometimes my OH even goes to work wearing an ironed shirt and sometimes I get to parent's evening not smelling as if I've lived in a farmyard all my life and sometimes I even get to work and people like what I do and sometimes my children come home and we all have dinner together eventhough it's a bit of a thrown together job rather than a gourmet creation and sometimes we just laugh at some stupid thing that's happened and sometimes I just would'nt have it any other way and somehow it just kind of works...?
 
I have a very understand OH and only one daughter who is also horsey mad so we go out to play and he does the cooking. Am very spoilt
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with severe difficulty as my working hours vary from day to day-some days i can be out 15 or 16 hours! My OH is reasonable understanding and i bake loads of pies etc and keep in the freezer so when i get home they're easy to defrost and cook and add some veggies! I have 3 show horses too but luckily i have somebody to come and ride them a couple of times a week plus if i cant ride and i'm late then i stick them on the pessoa. Its easier i must admit now my little boy is at school full time! Its not easy i must admit and you have to have a certain amount of dedication and madness about you to succeed!!
 
I don't know how you make it work but it does!!! I work 9 till 3 and have twin girls of 3 years of age. Some days it can be tough but my girls love being up the yard helping with the horses. I am sure the other liveries all breath a sigh of relief when we leave though as my girls do insist on 'helping' eveybody!!! I am very lucky to have the help of my mum and a childminder. My husband has a good moan on occasions but I think he secretly prefers it when I am out of the house. I tend to get up early and do all the mucking out in the morning before anyone wakes up and then it is just a case of taking the girls up with me in the afternoon to help me bring in and finish off. If I am riding I tend to go back up the yard in the evening when the girls have gone to bed. I am lucky to have floodlighting!! Some days it is chaos but you manage. Hats off to those Mums who work 9 till 5
 
I wish I knew!!!!
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I work shifts, so have no routine really so horse, kids,OH have to all work around me!

The children have a fresh cooked meal at school everyday so evenings are easy meals such as sandwiches, boiled eggs etc etc, that cuts a lot of time.
 
Lovely OH and welbehaved child goes a long way. It gets easier the older your children get. Ditto cooking in advance, never buy anything that requires ironing. I trialed keeping my four out 24/7 this winter, cost a lot in forage but has been much easier in terms of time (and health for my old girl).

Dont get to stressed if you cant ride so much during the depths of winter, if they get turn out they will be fine.

Pare stable jobs down, I moved over to big bale haylage to cut out having to soak hay, I have loads of hay nets so they can be filled at the weekends. If you keep your horses in at night consider rubber matting and a deep bed of something more managable like easibed. make sure all doors and gates are easy to open and close - less fiddling time, that everything has a place, get a big, well balanced wheelbarrow, self filling water troughs etc etc.

Dont get too stressed about cleaning your house, however little and often is easier than having to do a mega clean. My vacume lives next to the back door to deal with the hair/hay and straw before it migrates to the rest of the house.
 
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