I’m sure this does affect most people or most parents but I am just completely on my knees with life in general. I run my own business, took a maternity leave last year of only a month as we just couldn’t afford me to take less. Luckily I am able to work at home, it’s a printing business, but I’m having to work around nap times, we have almost no family help and can’t afford to put my youngest in childcare. I have two older kids, 4 & 7. I’m working all hours and only just managing to pay my tax bill. I just feel like my house is a mess, it’s bursting with toys, I have not one second of the day to myself, I haven’t been able to exercise in months, I stay up so late working every night that I start every day absolutely exhausted.
I speak to friends who are still on maternity leave, who have time to go to all the baby classes and appear to have tidy houses and their life in order. My friend even said yesterday that she was thinking maternity leave hadnt been too bad and they still had money left at the end of every month. I’ve been in my overdraft for about 3 years straight! We can’t afford a holiday this year so booked a few days away in the UK but we’re now struggling to be able to afford even that. I’m in the supermarket on my online banking to check I have enough left at the bottom of my overdraft for a bag of shopping. My husband and I are roommates at this point. I try to tell myself I’m lucky we have a nice house and we’re all healthy but it just feels like every day is an absolute struggle right now 😔 Such third world problems in a sense but I am just on my knees with it all and wanted a moan 😭