to have yelled "JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"

[Bogeyface]

at everyone in the house just now? :(

I am at the end of a very very long couple of days and I am brainfucked. I have been "Muuuuum!"'d all day every day by someone, or been nagged phoned by various people, asked for favours, cooked, cleaned, changed nappies, been shouted at, argued with and tantrummed at.

I have had enough. I need silence, just for a few minutes. I just need to be left alone for a little while to get my head on straight but whenever I say this within 30 seconds its "Muuuum!" again. I will listen to them reading, look at their homework, laugh at the joke, watch the TV programme, but not right now.

Now they are sitting looking slightly scared, as I am not normally a shouter and I feel guilty :(

For having 6 children and not losing it hourly.

YA-ALL-BVU

Don't you realise that you are the people responsible for introducing the children to this world and therefore, should be at their beck and call for the rest of their lives?! If not, the first 18 years!

This thread makes me sick. Parents don't need to sleep/eat/have me time - you had plenty of time for that before you had kids

Don't blame you! You must have the patience of a saint to only blow your top once!

I have been known to down tools, place my hands on hips and screech fishwife-styler at DC " I am your MOTHER, not your maid!!!"
Effective, but dignity out the door