To think the novelty of motherhood can wear off

[Winosaurus]

This is lighthearted before anyone takes it too seriously

So before kids I was desperate for them, thought I’d be like Maria Von Trapp and love every second.
Kids are now 7 & 3 and I’ve had enough of playdoh, CBeebies, being used as a human climbing frame.
Yesterday I hid in my en suite bathroom pretending to the kids I was having a poo because I was secretly eating a mars bar a didn’t want to share with them
Currently dreaming of being 20-something and on a beach sipping cocktails

Also I’ve heard the word “snack” for the 5678th time this morning already and it’s only 9am

Judgemental when they move out?

When will I stop feeling so tired?

In my experience, just about when they start actually going to bed at 7:30, and not getting up until 6 the next (I had a kid who was still having a night feed at 18months, and didn't sleep through until he was over 3 - genuinely still getting hungry in the night - we used to have an emergency banana on the bedside table).

At that point, you have to be really careful, because you suddenly find yourself with all this free time with your partner, and that's how we got DS2.........

Belleende that made me laugh! Hope you got the poo off of the toddler.

My DD always wants to be naked, when she works out how to take her clothes off I'm in big trouble!

I thought I would start feeling less tired when they started school Judgemental. Unfortunately, the sleepless nights have been replaced with ferrying them around endlessly. They both love swimming, so I'm up at 4.30am 3 mornings a week. That's just the start, with their other interests I reckon I'm more tired than I was when they were newborns!

“Winosaurus

Judgemental when they move out?”

THEY NEVER MOVE OUT!!!! 😩

I’ve been a mummy for 20 years 😳 and am now pregnant again 😹

Knackered, flabby, bored and up to my eyes in Mr Men books. What has my life become?!
I love them more than my very own eyes, but fuck me, I’d love a good nights sleep and a night on the piss...in whatever order!

Nooooooo, don't tell me that, surely they sleep at some stage! My DD is 3.5 and will sleep through (which is basically any time from 8pm/midnight, through to 6:30/7:30am) a couple of days in a row, so I start to feel a bit human, then she'll chuck in a 3:30 am wake up for a few nights! We only ever planned to have one child, I think another may finish me off. Although I do wonder about another one.....

I feel like a fraud after reading some of these comments my kids sleep well and I have a night out tomorrow night with no kids and tons of wine! However, they’re still annoying and I wish I had my pre-pregnancy figure back

I remember the bone crushing tiredness

I remember being so blissed out in the dentist’s chair as I got to have a break and a sit down, I considered having root canal treatment as it guaranteed lots of visits

Desperately needed this thread today. My 20 month old has been screaming in the buggy because I keep apparently going the “wrong way” and then knocked my lunch on the floor in the cafe earlier because he didn’t want to go in his high chair.

I feel so pathetic today.

Think this sums it up for me!

YADNBU

A few weeks back my partner got our daughter up. I came downstairs all cheery and said “good morning beautiful”

My daughter just bluntly responded with “NO!!!”

Well sod ya then! 😂

I thoroughly enjoy doing housework these days as I get peace and quiet!

By 4:15 on Wednesday, I was willing my lively windswept boys to go back to school... They'd been home less than an hour

I came close to creating a third but realised in time that the thing that I couldn't do to myself was to have to go through the daily palaver of sorting out socks, shoes and coats for 3 resistant beings. Two has brought my sanity to the brink. It's a long term problem, much longer than night feeds or nappies.

They're gorgeous when they're asleep, on proviso that they're in their own beds. Good job I love them dearly

Who are these crazy people that have 3 kids? Were they drunk when they made that decision?
I understand one... “aww won’t it be lovely to make a little mini version of us?”
I can understand two... “wouldn’t it be nice for DC to have a sibling to play with?”
By the time you’re considering three... you know the score, you know the truth! I’m thinking those with 3+ kids either are borderline insane or must be hiding dark secrets
I think I’d rather pull my own ovaries out

A combination of having previously worked in schools, working in retail and seeing too many bored screamy brats and reading mumsnet has taken the rose tint off for me before I've even tried to create any of my own. for everyone currently occupied with their DC!

Yanbu. I'm bored to tears with it after a decade. Maybe I'll feel differently when ds starts secondary this sept. I'm probably primary-schooled out too.

Yanbu. I'm bored to tears with it after a decade. Maybe I'll feel differently when ds starts secondary this sept. I'm probably primary-schooled out too.

My parents had 3 I have 2 hours of commuting each day only time I get to myself now so I sleep!

Wino i constantly question my own mother on this...by anybody's standards she gave birth to her most demanding child first. I mean, my brother was (still is) a bloody psycho in human form, but four years later she had me. I honestly comment a lot that she had them in reverse order; my younger brother by 18 months is the best of us. Maybe those with 3 or more are still trying to find their perfect child 😂

I'm stopping at this one. I'm trying to fathom out how I can make them sterilise me next year, you know, so there is absolutely no way in hell i can ever be this bloody stupid again 😂😂😂

Oh I hear ya. It can be so tedious.
Waiting for the "you're all fucking awful! Children are a #blessing. You should be grateful for every second, especially the night wakings!" comment.

I've found this over Christmas with one major thing, I'm so sick of being touched all the time. They both want to sit on me. Cuddle me. Stroke my hair. Grab my neck. Tickle (actually poke) me. At. The. Same. Time.

There's a just a phase that's started where instead of one of them coming up for a cuddle and me loving the interaction and the affection it's like they're mentally watching the other do it and thinking 'hold on, she's mine, if anyone gets to touch her I do.' They might as well be pissing on me (although sometimes I still get that with the one year old too).

I feel like a total cow but some days it's just too much.

Sorry, not lighthearted it turns out! :S

I hate “Mummy” ... I was sooooo proud when they learned to talk, now I wish they’d shut up! 😹 the main thing is starting every sentence with “Mummy ... Mummy ... Mummy ...” till I say “yes?”, even though I’m right in front of them! JUST TALK!!!!! 😩

I love this thread. My one year old shoved his finger up my nose this morning. Cue DH walking into the living room to find DS happily toddling about and me trying to stem the blood coming from my nose.

Not how I thought parenting would be.

I have three
I stay at home
We home educate

The dentist cancelled my appointment today - i nearly cried.