...to be seriously considering opening a bottle of wine at 3.45pm?

[EmmelineSpankfirst]

Yes, IABU, I know.

I don't usually turn to drink

I am just having such a shit day. Don't even know where to start. Mainly, it is my DS, who has been behaving absolutely appallingly today. But i am also having MIl issues (she is staying with us and is just unbelievably unhelpful).

I would go for a brisk walk to try to shake off the absolute horror of the day, but DS is currently banished to his room for swearing at me .

DH is out until late tonight and the thought of hours and hours more of dealing with my kids, who have been horrid today, just fills me with despair.

I have a bottle of Chardonnay chilling in the fridge...

This is not a 'Aren't I naughty?' joke thread, btw. I am seriously eyeing up the bottle and thinking a glass of vino might stop me from committing murder.

Go for a walk - MIL can watch the little bugger - save the wine for later x

Could you leave MIL in charge and nip to the shop for "bread and milk".

Then buy lashings of chocolate in lieu of wine. Save that treat for later.

Can I come over? My kids are being lovely, but it's Thursday of half term week, and though (again) the kids are lovely, they are 4 and 3...conversation is not the most stimulating!! How I'd love to join you...

Sorry you're having a crap day...

If yu got rid of your mother in law, would yur DS' behaviour improve? I say do it (open the bottle). Give your MIL something to really raise her eyebrows at (or may be she'll join in and you can find some common ground).
By the way, I'm 5mths pregnant and would LOVE to open a bottle of wine right now.

Your MIL is staying, therefore you have a GUEST, therefore it would be rude not to! Infact you should have done so at lunch time really!

Thanks for the reply@gordy

MIL is out shopping for the day.

Don't get me started! She comes to visit from abroad for weeks and weeks on end, several times a year, but never (not once in 7 years) offers to watch the kids for even 5 mins while I pop to the shop.

I should probably let DS out of his room and take both kids to the park for a bit of a blow in the fresh air, shouldn't I? b=But I am feeling a bit like a petulant child myself now

Chaos, I have caned half a packet of Fox's choclate shortcake rounds already out of sheer misery .

lol!@FER1 and omletta

Eve - we had some friends around for a playdate earlier and DS was absolutely foul, which is where the whole situation started. If I invited you around you;'d provably run screaming from the place. It is a total madhouse today

Nah...my DS is quite influential...he could probably convince your DS to get up to something devious (but quiet), so we could drink and worry later!

I was wondering the same thing at 10am so if you have got this far through the day then I salute you!

My first day off work of the half term holidays. The 3 DC have a ton of homework, including writing recipes, book reviews, craft projects, learning words for reciting etc etc. Of course DH did none of this on his day off with them on Tuesday, he did fun stuff instead. So I am left to cajole them into doing it. Plus find 3 outfirts for St Davids Day and 3 outfits for World Book Day.

Plus although I am not in work today I am still sorting out work related emails etc.

I am trying to hold out until supper time, but it is hard. So YANBU.

YABU, Chardonnay, yuk. ABC Darling (anything but Chardonnay).

Send the MiL out for something nicer

Get them outside. The time will go faster and a change of scenery will change the dynamics. Stay out as long as possible.

My kids pissed me off so much earlier I found myself glugging rum from the bottle

Then I had a mars bar cake

And some cheesey bread with butter.

And a flake out of the boys selection box

Now I feel slightly better

lol@Katey. Ooh, but it is a very nice, cost more than a fiver posho Chardonnay and it is icy cold . I am not fussy, to be honest. I would happily guzzle a pint of Blue Nun right now

Jemima, I am 'on half term', too, as am a teacher. Had fantastic Mon and Tues - cinema trip, bowling, made milkshakes, did arts and crafts, finished all homework etc and children very well behaved - and was feeling very Mary Poppins-esque and, yes, smug.

Yesterday DD whinged all day and had a massive tantrum in th street which resulted in me heavig her up under my arm 9she weighs a tonne) and carrying her home. with passersby (literally) pointing and laughing at the sight of a huffing and puffing tomato-red woman carrying an enormous tomato-red screaming toddler like a sack of potatoes

Today DS hit his 'playdate friend', thre his DSi across the room and swore at me (have never heard him swear before and am feeling very upset about it).

Mary Poppins is morphing into Mrs Hannigan from Annie...

sorry about typos

Teachers usually open a bottle of wine at 3.45pm, don't they?

I work in a school so am technically on half term, but I also help run the holiday club and so have been in work for half of it. I think that is my problem, I spent 3 days filling other people's children's days with fun activities and now I don't want to do the same with mine. Which is BU but I am worn out. They are quite happy eating crisps and playing on the Playstation

Not in our school, Jemima

Oh sod it, it's twenty past four. I am opening it now. I am also opening a packet of kettle chips to soak it up.

May i join you and commiserate with you on having a shit day.
Its half term , BUT only 3 more days to go and then they are back at school. . .Phew ! !!

What twopeople said. The rest of your day will be that much harder if you've had a glass of wine. For one thing, you won't be able to stop thinking about that second glass.

I'd wait until the kids are in bed and have several.

Too late .

It is going down a treat

I know I will regret it in an hour or so, but for now...bliss.

Am ordering in pizza for the kids tea. Then early night for them. I need a break!

ahhh fox's chocolate rounds. Half price in morrisons! Yum.

YANBU re the wine, the sun is over the yard arm. (no idea what that means but my dad says it so it must be right!)

what the top post says, if shes an unhelpful MIL its time she started being helpful.

altinkum, what are MH issues?

Ah, Grandmasterpudge, I have been there with DH and with her a hundred times. It gets me nowhere. MIL has issues aplenty and it is betetr to just leave her to her eccentric ways and smile sweetly.

She says her 'childcare days are behind her' and that she hasn't got the energy to sit on the sofa and read a story look after them. Yet she has been shopping on Oxford St all day, lunching 0probably with wine involved) at a gastro pub and will be back soon expecting dinner cooked and the kids to keep the noise down.

Amazing - love those biscuits, love your dad's saying