IT’S just one of those days . . . Her dogs won’t stop barking, there’s wet washing drying on a clothes horse in her home office and she’s just realised she’s double-booked herself and should be in a meeting with someone else.
“It’s my attention deficit disorder,” Vanessa Raphaely groans about the scheduling mix-up. “And menopause doesn’t help.”
It’s a scenario many frazzled members of her popular Facebook parenting group, The Village, can relate to – the endless juggling and multitasking, the days when balls get dropped.
During her time as editor of Cosmopolitan magazine it might’ve sent her into a spin but now, older and wiser, Vanessa (59) just rolls with it.
All the chaos is quickly forgotten as she flops