To want to go back to bed after the school run

[goingmadinthecountry]

I hate mornings so much - 3 children to 3 different schools. School run took me 1hr 40 mins this morning. I even cried at a rubbish song on the radio on the way back! Despite going to same school as dd2, dd1 has to get a different bus as she's in 6th form. Her bus has started leaving 15 mins earlier than other one. Bus stop 2 miles away and no footpaths. Little dd3 gets shoved in and out of the car, dd2 really unwell but GCSEs and school are evil over absence and she just had a week off (at hospital's insistence) after a head injury. Just want to go back to bed instead of having a constructive day.

See, I've gone mad. I've actually got 4 children.

are there any solutions?
could dd3 go to breakfast club?
could they're dad help out?
does the 6th former need a lift to the bus stop? could she cycle?

Am also toying with going back to bed, and don't have your excuses, just feeling lazy, so mustn't. You, howeve, deserve a rest. Why not have a nap, set an alarm, then get up feeling better and be constructive for the rest of the day!

Go back to bed, wont hurt for an odd day.

This could have been written by me! I'm very tired, I ache all over due to time of the month, dads in hospital, dd is ill with chrohns disease and it keeps flaring, ds has tummy ache every morning. So right now I am back in bed!! But my brain won't switch off so i can't sleep :-(
Don't think it hurts if you can do it then go back to bed, re- charge yourself!!

Moaning always helps! Dh can't help as he works abroad in the week, and no way dd1 could cycle to the bus or school (10 miles and best way is up a motorway!) - roll on her driving test! No breakfast club at dd3's school either. It's just so ridiculous and so boring.

I work from time to time (supply teaching) - can drop off dd3 with friend and all others on the way, chat in car and still arrive way before 8.30 in time to get a coffee!

Nanny, poor you. Hope you get some rest. Think I'll stop feeling sorry for myself and go clear out the fridge. In a couple of minutes.

I used to do that lots but would then hate myself for wasting the day and wouldn't feel much better for it either. Now I try and have a big hot bath then walk the dog.

Poor you though - I only have one child to wrestle in to the car and get to school and I still feel exhausted (but then I don't sleep much at night).

YANBU, get back to bed! :)
Just remember to set some sort of alarm if they need picking up

YANBU. I think i'd be back in bed every day!

YANBU. What's the worst that can happen as long as you set the alarm.

Dd2 just phoned - really not well enough to be there. I've told her to see Head of House, but I'll probably have to go to get her. Another hour/20 miles. Then 8 miles/40 mins to get dd3, a quick cup of tea then off to get ds from bus, a quick hour's payed work then another hour/20 miles to collect dd1 from an after school session because the last bus out to the sticks leaves before her session finishes. That'll take me to 7.20. NEVER MOVE TO THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!

You make a really good point about not living in an isolated area - are you giving advice to those who want to move to the country? We have just left the countryside after ten years and now live in a small town - so much better .

Lucky you! Yes, I added my views to that thread.

Constructive days are well over rated IMO. Go back to bed! Your second post OP made me LOL the other day someone asked when ds's birthday was and I had to REALLY think hard to remember!

I have gone back to bed sometimes after dropping my DD at her bus-stop - but its only 1.5 miles away (we are merely on the edge of nowhere) I'm back home before 8am

My mother only had one, didn't do a school run and didn't work and she went back to bed every day after I left

She then complained to all and sundry how hard her life was, pmsl.

If she could get away with it i think you're more than justified!