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To feel sad that DD is back at school tomorrow :(

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lucyellensmumagain · 03/01/2010 23:09

Even though DP is home tomorrow so we get some time alone, i do feel sad - she is in reception, but she still seems so young. We had great fun today "geocaching" although it didn't curtail the "mummy my legs hurt" wailing and i ended up shoulder carrying her through the woods in the snow - we didnt find the cache, but we did manage a 6" snowman

DD is bored actually, needs to go back, been drivng me nuts - but i felt really choked when i was ironing her school stuff tonight - im a wuss aren't i

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YouLukaAmazing · 03/01/2010 23:11

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whyme2 · 03/01/2010 23:12

No, you aren't a wuss. I am sad that my two DD's are going back tomorrow, we've had a lazy lovely time making things and watching films and playing in the snow. Been fab and I am making plans for half term already.

musicposy · 03/01/2010 23:24

Mine don't go to school - none of us liked the gong back thing at all - so I'm even more of a wuss!

We're all off to the Natural History Museum tomorrow with a large bunch of other children to go ice skating there - I love the first day of term nowadays because I am reminded that I don't have to iron uniform and wave them goodbye!

Having said that, remind yourself that half term will be here before you can blink.

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lucyellensmumagain · 03/01/2010 23:30

i'm very very jealous musicopy

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displayuntiltwelfthnight · 03/01/2010 23:43

me too - will miss my boys
more fun having them around and ds3 will really notice the difference without them around during the day

StopTalkingAndEatYourDinner · 03/01/2010 23:53

Can I be nosy and ask how old your DC's are? Mine are 4 and 2 and much as I adore them i am really looking forward to nursery opening again tomorrow and having a day at work!! I know it sounds dreadful but it has been so relentless over xmas (DS doesn't and has never slept through!) that I am going a bit bonkers at home with them!!
I'd love to know how old yours were when it got a bit less trying?! It might give me some hope!

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lucyellensmumagain · 03/01/2010 23:54

oh but le queen, i thought you just ignored your children and let them make their own fun sorry, coudlnt resist

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lucyellensmumagain · 03/01/2010 23:55

My DD is four, she has been hard work so i wont say i wont be grateful for the rest, but now its here, i want another week please! Especially as DP been home all this time so not had her to myself and she is a real daddies girl

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lucyellensmumagain · 04/01/2010 08:05

wooop woop NO SCHOOL TODAY!!!!! it snowed in the night, so i rang the school to see if they were open - um, its a staff training day Now, what did we do with that sledge!!!!!!!!

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ChippingIn · 04/01/2010 08:19

LOL - just as well it was snowing then or you'd of looked like a right muppet at the school gate

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lucyellensmumagain · 04/01/2010 08:25

i know!! what a twonk!

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Polgara2 · 04/01/2010 08:39

You are not alone LEM! I only realised on Saturday that dd2 wasn't due back until tomorrow . However dd1 was due back today but is in bed sick so the day me and dd2 had planned has gone by the way (haven't told her yet as she is still asleep having been up all night 'scared' - aka stressed about going back to school). Oh happy days!

seeker · 04/01/2010 08:45

Mine are 8 and 14 - and I'm sad they are back at school - we've had such a lovely holiday together and I am very conscious that there won't be very many more all together family times.

piscesmoon · 04/01/2010 08:53

Mine are much older and I always hated the end of the holidays-it doesn't change!

CirrhosisByTheSea · 04/01/2010 09:55

That's great about the inset day! Enjoy your extra day with your dd.

It is always on the first day of term that I have two incredibly strong desires

  1. to clean the house and revel in the fact it will stay clean ALL DAY

and 2) to home educate my ds. I really wish I could. I would have to give up ever having the house clean for one day then, though

seeker · 04/01/2010 10:31

Well, dd went off to school as usual then dp took ds, only for him to ring to say "It's all locked up!"

I forgot he doesn't go back til Wednesday! . He's now delightedly watching TV and eating his packed lunch for second breakfast.

The most embarrassing thing is that I'm a Governor!

GetOrfMoiLand · 04/01/2010 10:35

I felt very sad as well today. I have had the whole two weeks off, so me DP and DD have spent all this time together.

Now it is back to school and work, and both me and DP work long hours and commute. The next time we will all be together for such a long stretch of time will be August , and that will be abroad, so the next time we will be at home together for longer than a long weekend will be next Christmas. And that is another year gone and another year where dd will be even older (she is 14).

Profoundly depressing today. I have always worked full time and loved it but am sat here in a real grump thinking what's the point, and thinking of ways I can stay at home.

FourArms · 04/01/2010 10:42

GOML - that's really sad. Is it just depressing because it's the first day back, or do you feel like that all year round?

I'm glad my two have gone back, because I get some peace and quiet (has been a full on Christmas break with lots of visitors and cooking and tidying), but it was sooooo hard to get up early again! Have enjoyed lots of lie ins (AKA sending DS1 downstairs to play his DS or Wii or watch TV whilst I stay in bed until 9 or 10! DS2 just lies in bed chilling until you get him up! )

GetOrfMoiLand · 04/01/2010 10:45

Fourarms - no, I am normally really chipper and fine with the work/home balance. However have been thinking a lot over the holidays how nice it is to spend so much time together and how rotten it is that modern life means that we can't spend this much time as a family ordinarily.

I should actually be thankful that we have both got good jobs seeing that the industries we work in (construction and engineering) are so dormant at the moment, however i wish I could just do 10 hours a week sometimes and spend time with dd. Think also she is 14 now and so time is marching on.

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stealthsquiggle · 04/01/2010 10:55

I was reflecting this morning that my DC have been really fun over these holidays (on the whole, they have of course had their moments), and that more than missing DH or me they will really miss each other in going back to school/nursery - they have been each others best friends and playmates, and I came down on New Year's Day to find them both curled up together in an armchair watching TV.

The time together has been wonderful and DH leaving at 5:30am was really tough this morning.

CirrhosisByTheSea · 04/01/2010 11:15

oh dear GOML when you put it the way you have, that is quite shocking, the lack of time together. i know exactly what you mean about the march of time - my ds is only 7 but already his childhood seems to be whizzing by

Speaking personally, I can only say that I have never regretted for one moment the fact that we have downsized (house is too small) and that I only work 3 days a week (we are scarily broke) Time is more precious than almost anything else in life when you have kids. Is there any scope in your lives for any of this sort of change? Or is it just a blip perhaps - if you've been content with the balance before, you're likely to get your mojo back!

5Foot5 · 04/01/2010 13:22

They can be harder to find in the snow can't they? Have you been caching long?