Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to

to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work.

I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years,

so I spin a few plates myself.

Being a mother can be the most amazing thing,

but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions.

I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything.

Welcome to spinning plates.

Yo! Yep, that thumbs third and things. This week I just wound up my 13-year-old quite easily. It's

really fun winding him up because I just put on lots of different accents. He likes making

movies and I said to him, okay, what about if you

need an Australian? I started doing an Australian accent. And then he was finding that very annoying.

And then I did a liverpudlian accent, then a very bad Scottish accent. And he wasn't having any of it.

I was just chatting to him in all these different accents. And the other thing I did to annoy him this week, to wind him up, which amused me greatly. And he started off being kind of amused and then by the end of it, I think he thought I was being serious, is I told him that everything I've ever done for him since he was born, I've actually been keeping a tally, and that when he leaves

home 18, he'll be presented with a bill. So I was saying, like, for example, every night it has

decaf tea in a beaker that I bring it with him to bed. And I said, that's actually five pounds each time.

And every time I've squeezed toothpaste onto his toothbrush for him, that's been another three pounds.

And the alarm calls in the morning before school, seven pounds.

And that actually it's all really adding up now.

And I think at first he thought, he knew I was joking,

and then by the end he was saying, can you really do that?

And I said, well, yeah, when you were a baby i got your

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