End of summer sadness. I cant be the only one.

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I hate the holidays being over. I like my family at home and I love the light nights and days out.

I work full time as does dh but we always try to get time off in the summer. Every year the children go back, the nights get dark and my mood goes down, anxiety goes up. I struggle. This is the first year I'm on anti depressants in readiness for the slump. Everyone else seems to like the children going back and the change in season but I don't. I feel sad. I feel loss hitting me hard and I feel I don't cope well. I can't be alone in this. Tonight I could cry as my family is broken up again and swallowed into work and school. I am so lucky to have everything I have and I want to be grateful not sad.

How do others make the transition. Teach me how to do it better.

i feel the same. we've had a lovely few weeks without having to worry about the school run, homework, school drama. the kids start back on wednesday & i know all the things i dislike about school will ramp up immediately. i just want to keep them at home & carry on with summer :(

Don't take this the wrong way offsocks but I'm pleased I'm not alone. The years go by to fast.

Me too
We’ve had a lovely time and I’m not looking forward to getting back into the rushing around to school/clubs etc etc
Plus I will miss my dc, they are pretty good company

I used to love the summer holidays when mine were small.
The afternoon goes on forever rather than ending at 3/3.30pm

I feel the same. I’m lucky enough to have been off work all summer (teacher) and I’m dreading going back.

For me it’s the feeling like I’m on a hamster wheel that I can’t get off, the wrap around care, the letters, the lunch boxes & the backwards and forwards to school and clubs etc.

The thing is, I love my job & I can’t wait to get to know my new class but I bring so much home it’s such a delicate balance between home and work life.

Anyway, you’re not alone OP x

Thank you. I knew it couldn't just be me.

Yeah me too. I always take August off and pretty much spend the whole month together.

Back to school and work tomorrow and not looking forward to it but it is what is and you just have to make the best of it. I do love being off though and having a break from my anxiety which is mostly work specific.

Same here ... I actually like spending time with my kids and vice versa , always sad at this time of year until we get back into the swing of things ... you're not alone x

I feel this way each year too. Love not having to wake the kids up in the morning, love not having to nag them to do their homework, love not making packed lunches but exciting picnics instead, love planning days out, love lazy summer evenings enjoying the light.
Love not having all the uniform to wash and iron on a Sunday night too!
But that’s life and as much as I hate the summer being over it also marks the start of my Christmas planning and that’s an exciting time of year.

They're very lucky to have you as a mum . I guess all you can do is make the most of weekends and book little family trips away in between? I'm on maternity leave so I'm very lucky to have all this time with my little one but I know it's going to be so hard going back to work

Op, I feel the same too. I’m lucky enough to work term time only and I live the holidays with Dd. She’s 13 now and does’t need me quite as much. When she was younger I used to feel like the school were kidnapping her ( mad, I know)
I hate the end of the holidays and wish we could hang out together all the time

Snap. So sad the summer holiday is over. Best time of the year.....!

I don’t want summer to end either, even though DD is more than ready to go back to school
I really don’t like autumn and most of winter, I yearn for spring and longer days, I’m a real outdoorsy person and while I can get wrapped up and go out, it’s not quite the same
Lots of bad memories/anniversaries associated with autumn and winter months too 😢
Sorry, not much help, but you’re not alone

I'm dreading my child going to school. She'll be in reception.

And yes the dark and colder weather really affects me. Even on those colder couple of days earlier this week I felt myself feeling different. I'm dreading it

I'm absolutely miserable about tomorrow....I'm a TA so have been off all summer and I go back tomorrow and my kids go back on Tuesday....I hate going back after the summer...summer is 6 weeks of laziness of no routine or proper time with my kids and I love it...

Oh me too! I have only had the last ten days of the holidays off with the DC so I feel like I’m just finally getting to enjoy them and it will soon be over. The amount of days I had to go into work when it was boiling hot and I would rather be with them made me

Same here. Have still worked most of the Summer but have enjoyed morning without the 'school scramble' and weekends in the garden, camping, seeing friends.

It feels as if this year has been a 'proper' Summer and I'll be sorry to go back to the school routine this week. It's gone very quickly.

All the MN summer haters who have been posting moaning about the summer will be happy. But I'm with you OP. Sad to see the summer over

Me too. I'm dreading it OP. We decided to have a very late short holiday at the end of the summer, so we are still away now and go home tomorrow. It's been really lovely but it makes the back to school/work grind seem even less appealing! I wish we could just stay here for another week... Or two...

Another one who doesn’t like this time of year! That beautiful weather we had in June seems a distant memory, and now it’s darker earlier too and will only get worse. Trying to be positive and think of cosiness, fires and being snuggly!

I'm not usually but I'm sad this year too, we've had a lovely summer, plus I'm really not looking forward to the morning rush, the letters, the homework, the admin, the running about, the having to be at places at a certain time that will start again immediately.

This year is harder because the weather has been so summery yet I can already see the change in the seasons with the colder nights and damp grass in the morning. I don’t like the dark nights either. I am a summer person and find autumn and winter very hard - I also don’t particularly look forward to Christmas for many reasons.

Me too. Just got back from an amazing summer holiday and am devastated at going back to work tomorrow. I just feel so damned SAD! I try and look forward to Christmas and log fires and woolly jumpers but it just doesn't work

I totally agree newsofas

Oh me too OP. I’ve loved this summer hols - the weather has been amazing and we have had some great days out. I will miss them both terribly when they go back.