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AIBU to be really looking forward to school starting again tomorrow??

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EatDessertFirst · 31/05/2015 13:22

Just that really. I adore my DD 6.5 and DS 4.5 but THEY WON'T STOP ARGUING!! We have been for a long walk in the pissing rain and played in puddles in the garden. I'm now expecting them to entertain themselves for a little while (which they normally do fine). We're utterly skint and my supply of patience has nearly run out. I'm sick of picking up everything they choose to chuck on the floor, refereeing the screaming and ignoring the tit-tattle. If I hear "MMMUUUUMMMM, HE'S LOOKING AT ME!!!" once more, I'm shutting myself in the bathroom till DP gets home from work.

Rant over. I actually feel better.

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TheFirstOfHerName · 31/05/2015 13:23

YANBU. The first few days went well, but mine are now bored enough to start winding each other up.

meglet · 31/05/2015 13:27

yanbu. Mine have just been walloping each other over homework at the table.

measles64 · 31/05/2015 13:27

it is the weather getting everyone down. imo.

formerbabe · 31/05/2015 13:30

Oh I love it when the schools go back! First thing I do is clean my house!

Only 6 weeks till the summer holidays now....starts looking up holiday courses

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EatDessertFirst · 31/05/2015 13:31

Me too formerbabe! I have even booked a day off work tomorrow to get the house clean and enjoy some silence!

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Sallystyle · 31/05/2015 13:33

I am not looking forward to the 7.am wake up and school runs and the boring routine.

I am looking forward to not hearing them all argue all day long though.

I love the school holidays due to the lax routine and I love spending time with them when the weather is decent and we can get out of the house more cheaply but this half term was a bit of a shitty one. But getting up at 10.00am is bliss.

museumum · 31/05/2015 13:35

We have a nearly two year old and tbh it's the thought of future bickering that's putting me off having another. I really do not want to be a bloody UN peacekeeper in my own home.

meglet · 31/05/2015 13:35

measles the weather isn't helping is it. We're all crammed in the living room at the moment, they did play out for a while but got too chilly so trudged back in.

Sallystyle · 31/05/2015 13:37

The arguing is the hardest part for me.

I have five. Someone is always arguing with someone it seems.

It just gets worse as they get older. On the other hand, on the odd occasions they aren't arguing it is lovely that they keep each other entertained.

They are old enough not to need to come to me to sort it out, reality is they still try to get me involved.

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EatDessertFirst · 31/05/2015 13:43

museumum Don't let it put you off. Mine are fine together 95% of the time. They do things together every day that amaze me and bring happy tears to my eyes.. I've found DD reading to DS in her room. DS bought DD a blanket when she was poorly and he stroked her face when she fell asleep on Monday. Having a small age gap was a huge decision but the good outweighs the bad every time. It just doesn't feel like it when they are in their 5% bad time.

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NickiFury · 31/05/2015 13:45

I really love dd being at home. I wish she would agree to home education but she doesn't want to so I respect that.

museumum · 31/05/2015 13:50

I just hate bickering. My dh and I don't do it. My parents didn't. And I've never had a stormy relationship with anybody. I think if I was more used to it is find it easier.

TheFirstOfHerName · 31/05/2015 13:57

When they are getting on with each other, it's nearly as bad as the winding each other up, because it involves tearing up and down the stairs chasing each other, shouting excitedly and giggling hysterically. Other people seem to have the sitting-quietly-and-colouring sort of children.

scrappydappydoo · 31/05/2015 13:58

Me!! Although dd2 has inset tomorrow Angry
I love them dearly and tbh we have done some fun things but within minutrs they are claiming to be bored. They won't leave me alone and I seem to be an indoor climbing frame. If I hear one more demand for food I might jump out a window... The house is a pigsty and I just feel I've spent the week saying 'no' (to endless snacks, TV all day, fighting, arguing etc etc)

BlueBananas · 31/05/2015 13:59

Did someone say it's only 6 weeks till the summer holidays?! Shock

cariadlet · 31/05/2015 14:04

I'd have liked a 2 week half-term.

DP has been working and dd has had things planned for most of the holiday (day out with DP last Sunday, a full day activity with a club that she goes to and 4 days at Guide camp) so I've hardly seen her.
I've spent the week catching up on housework and doing school work.

I wouldn't mind a few more days to chill out and spend a bit of time with dd - if she could be persuaded to spend time with her mum!

But I probably wouldn't be so keen on a longer break if I wasn't a teacher. Wink

notmyusualMNname123 · 31/05/2015 14:06

V V V bloody U. Flaming you.

(I work in a school!)

And where we live, it's 7 weeks til summer hols. Am counting....

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