To hate the weekends

[dottymac]

I don't want to...as the weekend draws closer I think, oh what fun we'll have doing family things, day trips, pottering around the house. Then along it comes and I invariably spent the weekend dealing with everyone's mess and arguments and being the resident snack bitch. It's exhausting and mentally draining. Please god, is it only me? What am I doing wrong? (Semi-lighthearted but not at the same time 🤦)

Me too but I am learning to live with them again. The next couple are going to be very hard as it should be my first wedding anniversary on 22nd May but I will be celebrating it alone (or rather, with the fosterlings but not with DH). I am getting out and keeping busy at the moment, I went out with friends today and tomorrow I am going to see my lovely DD and her husband, we might try to plan a trip to go and see DS together if we can.

Snap! Except my eldest is 8, but my my isn't she just a lovely bundle of rage! And then she flips and is an absolute angel again, which is usually when the 3yo starts his nonsense... It's so very wearing. Unfortunately this has been going on since they were 6 and 2, or even before that. I was hoping school might help DS settle down a bit but maybe not!

I refuse to play imagination games with mine, though. I just can't do it. Baking, board/video games, colouring, parks, craft... but please don't ask me to be a mermaid or a teacher or give this Barbie/that car a voice!

Sounds like alot of us have similar aged kids that are experiencing this so that is a consolation I suppose 🙃 ive spent a decade entertaining the little beggars and we are packed to the rafters with toys/crafts/books so I don't think it's too much to expect them to content themselves peacefully for a bit 😬 nevermind, they are asleep now so can finally flop on the couch and watch 'the walking dead' (where incidentally, every other character including the zombies looks and feels more human than I do on my best day 🤣)