To ask if there is anyone out there that finds being a mum soooooo hard?

[Namechangemum100]

I'm 30, have 2 DC, DD is 18 months and ds is 4 months.

I love my children, I really do, but I find being a mum so damn hard.

Everyday is a slog, and I often wonder how on earth I am going to make it to the end of the day.

The days are long....sooooo long

Baby groups are boring, and full of mums who just seem to love every minute of it.

Days are filled with meaningless tasks like going to a shopping centre just to buy a new grobag even though you could have bought it online but at least it gave your day some kind of a purpose.

Everyone around me seems to love it, seems to cope, dreads their children growing up, and I'm just here wondering when my life will ever resemble something somewhat normal. Where days aren't filled with screaming, crying, picking up, putting down, picking up again, nappies, food that doesn't get eaten, mess...eugh it's never ending.

Please tell me it's not just me...please!

8 years ago you could have been me OP. I had two very close together and really struggled. It did get better and easier. Stick with the baby groups they also got easier and became a life line to me. I honestly look back fondly to those times now and miss them

@Namechangemum100 hope it is getting easier for you. I only have the one and getting out for a (mostly) daily walk is the only thing that saves my sanity.

@Babdoc so sorry to hear that

I've not read all the posts but the first few pages.. I hear you with the shopping! But now even that's stressful if the DS2.5 terrible twos stage has hit. if hes not in the trolley I spend my time running around after him! So now I only go if I have too. My youngest DS1 doesn't like sitting still either now! So I just get out all the toys and go wild!.. go for a walk when the youngest is tired.. and have a wrist (adult) to wrist (child) strap for the eldest.. messy play at the kitchen table...
Have bath time in the day.. that takes up an hour of them splashing.. some TV.. and count down the hours! When they get that little bit older like mine are now.. they sometimes instead of fighting! Play happily together too.. so it does get better.. soft plays in the term time are good too if you can find a nice little place.. my youngest loves tearing up bread and now my eldest copies. So loaf of 20p bread. That's half hour entertainment! And if you add food colouring in with yogurt into pots for them to dip it in and paint with it takes it up a bit more time!

What I'm trying to say is. Set a few tasks that you know they will enjoy so when finally it's our bedtime!! We know even if we didn't enjoy it we can look back and see that we still made them happy.. I think it helps!

Also work PT so they go to nursery 3 mornings this was for all our sanity..

Normal to feel like that, I'd say. It gets easier when preschool starts, even if that does seem a long way off right now. Mine are older now and yesterday I was wishing to go back in time for a day to the baby days - your post has reminded me why I really don't want to! Hang on in there, it will all work out.

I guessed the ages of your children before opening the thread it is a very hard stage - IT DOES GET EASIER (although there will always be something to worry you IME). Hang on in there.