Kirsty Gallacher Quotes

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.

If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.

Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

I think being busy is a healthy thing.

I don't mind being busy.

I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.

I love shopping, but I only really have time to do it online.

I'm a mom. I work. I have a house to clean, things to organize. We all have certain similar needs, and I address them.

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

What I've tried to do is focus on either my job or being a mom, and just go really hard on that so that I can feel like I'm doing my best job at both roles.

I was going to school; I was working - at one point, I had two jobs - and I was still trying to train and fight.

It's just easy to be a mother and an actress in the same time: you just have to have a good organization, and everything is just fine.

I like to write, but being a busy mother, it is difficult to sit down and write at a stretch.

When you're juggling children, a marriage and a couple of jobs, something has to give - and, for me, it's living in a perfectly tidy home.

Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.

I am a single mother of two sons and politics demands 100 per cent commitment.

I always think about my lifestyle when designing, so that's being a mother, being a career woman, being a wife, and being a woman who loves to entertain.

I particularly like Strellson because I love one-stop shopping. I don't like going store to store. I want to go to one store: look, see, buy, go. But shopping takes time. If I have three or four hours, I play golf.

People have no clue how demanding my schedule was back in the day. There were times when I might be home for just one or two days a month.

I'm always saying to myself, there aren't enough hours in the day, which I think any working mum says to herself.

I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.