Kids - why do we have them again?

[Nosleepforthismum]

Currently looking at my 7 month old who has been up since 4.30 and having a party for one in her cot. Rolling around, holding her feet and doing lots of happy screeching to make sure we all know SHE’S AWAKE.

Can’t wait for my two year old to wake up in about 10 minutes full of rage because he’s two and start demanding things for breakfast. We had birthday cake at the weekend so for the past few mornings we have had demands for “CAKE” for breakfast. I’m having to go through an elaborate role play of sitting a toy monkey at the table and pretending monkey wants a banana so my two year old wants to help feed monkey and eventually eats his banana and hopefully forgets about “CAKE” for at least 10 minutes.

All this before 6.30am every morning and some days I really question my life choices 😅 Anyone else?

Teenagers - the delight that keeps on giving.
Run before it's too late - change your name and start a new life. Yours are too young to figure out how to track you down.

Yep 🙋🏻‍♀️ currently feeding my greedy 7 week old who feeds constantly whilst trying to explain to my 3 year old that we can’t pick nanny up from the station yet as it is too early…she doesn’t arrive until 11.30 😆 I’ll be a shell of a person by then.

Your brain releases a chemical when you have kids that literally is a mind altering drug to stop you leaving them in a shop because child rearing is and children are, fucking awful.

Occasionally you get a moment of clarity when you realise this and your brain shits itself and gives you another dose.

Any chance that we can buy more of this chemical online?

My pre teen knows everything, my middle ADHD child runs like a Duracell battery and I also have a rage filled toddler.

My brain needs to shit itself a lot 😂

Tbf I'm 36 and love a bit of breakfast cake ;)

I want cake too

when I go to the doctors and they ask me why am I not taking contraception I tend to say: my son is my contraception!

op hope the day goes welll!

I've no bloody idea. And mine have long since left home!

And just when you can’t take anymore they do something ridiculously cute to suck you back in.

Dd & I call it 'breakfast pudding' 😬

She's 22 and her and ds are absolutely no bother.
Took me 20 years to get here though and I can remember vividly the stage you're all at now!

Mostly bloody hormones.
And cuteness. So much cuteness to suck you in.

I stupidly thought I'd be able to get ready for work in peace this morning while my 20mo stayed asleep- half way through make-up and she comes bouncing into the bathroom shouting that I'm not in bed. God I love work days! Haha

This is how they get you. They know juuuuust where the line is where you’d leave them in the woods and they’ll dance on the line then do something completely adorable to make you keep them.

Because the biological imperative to reproduce causes memory loss and a second child seems like a good idea...

You only remember the good bits until the second one does the "difficult" thing the first did then you remember how annoying and how to cope.

Biology sucks!

I have no idea! For some reason I’m doing it for the third time in April. 😩 I’ll have a preteen, a pre-schooler and a newborn. What’s wrong with me?!?

Have children they said.....enrich your lives they will.......😀

Enjoy it, teenagers are far worse.

God made them so beautiful at birth to trick their parents into loving them - not just at birth when the cuteness meter is at the top, but well into adulthood, when there's "sometimes" NOTHING even remotely cute about them. But for some reason, it's the baby face we see - ALL the time.

It’s absolute madness when you think about it. You spend shit loads of money on them, they cause you nothing but worry for the rest of your life and when you get old and need help and visiting, they resent you! Madness….

It’s because newborns are so cute and the snuggles are like drugs. And then they turn into bullies. Hating the cold weather because I just want to stay in all day but I know toddler needs to ruuuuun (so do I. Far away from home).

In all seriousness despite the times where you think 'why?' seeing children turn into adults and knowing that you played a small part in getting them there is one of the greatest things ever...and for those of us that are lucky enough to have children, there are thousands that can't and would love to have them.

We should all be thankful for what we have.....

Yeah. Three times for me. Thems some powerful drugs. Should be bloody illegal!

😂 this made me laugh. My DS 3.5 years was shouting he was hungry at 4am. When I reminded him he had basically two dinners and countless snacks before bed, he told me he didn't eat anything yesterday.. 🤦‍♀️. I needed sleep so he got a snack at 4am.. seriously I have come to the conclusion parenting is 90% shit to deal with and 10% cuteness factor that somehow makes up for the 90%.

Currently pregnant with my second and think I'm mental 🙃

I was tricked by my brain into having 3. 😂

DH and I were calculating how many years until our eldest ‘D’s might leave for university. In the nicest, jokiest possible way and obviously between ourselves.
sorry to say that my experience is that they get harder / ruder/ more challenging with age. We’re blaming the hormones.

It’s a type of Stockholm Syndrome really. Tiny little tyrants that ruin your life, stop you from really HAVING a life most days tbh and yet make you feel absolutely entranced by them, adore their every fibre and want to watch them sleep 😍

Or as my mum said “Kids- you want to kill then where they’re awake and kill FOR them when they’re asleep”…