to find Summer quite guilt-inducing and stressful?

[Undercovamutha]

Don't get me wrong, I do love the good weather we are having and enjoy the light nights, children being able to play in the garden, bbqs - the works.

BUT Summer also kind of stresses me out and makes me feel quite guilty, for the following reasons:

1. We live a long way from the local swings but when the weather is nice I feel a constant sense of guilt about not taking the kids there enough.

1. Feel a constant guilt for my use of the tumble dryer when the weather is nice (am too lazy to peg out most of the time).

1. Our garden is always appallingly badly kept. Our lawn always seems to be the longest. The hedge is always a bit overgrown - sigh!

1. I agonise over whether to let DD play in the street on her own (and then don't let her), and then end up having to stand in the road watching her like a lemon!

I think I might be a summer Scrooge! AIBU - I think maybe I'm just too lazy for summer!!!!

Thank god I am not the only one who hates going to the park....its got to be THE most mind numbingly boring activity known to man...even with a flask of wine (disguised as coffee) and a book!!!

Dd is having a nap right now so I'm eating ice cream on the sofa, watching tv with the curtains drawn
washing in the machine and will probably end up in the tumble dryer.

dh is mowing the lawn though..

I agree about hating going to the park.
Agree about the garden.

But I do think that you need to stop tumble drying when the weather is fine.

I hate parks and never take my kids, leave that to dh to do on a weekend. How about treating the garden like a project and let ds help you restore some order, and give him a lttle patch of his own to grow stuff. there fore no guilt about the park as he is busy conserving nature and nurturing plants in your wildlife garden.
or you could always go down to the river to feed the ducks

peggotty - I actually LOL'd at 'get a sheep'

I have a park at the end of my street so take the kids and a good book and sit on the grass and read while they go wild. Lovely

I hate summer too but mainly because of the bees and wasps that I have a phobia of. Then next month it's the dreaded may bugs! We're really lucky to live in a private road and the back is communal park land so can just let DD come and go as she pleases really as I can see her and friends all the time. Otherwise I don't know what I'd do as I would hate to have to go to the park all the time. And yes my tumble driers been on for a bit today and DD went for a barbecue lunch down the road at her friends so have been doing some guilt-free relaxing!

I thought I was the only one. I can't stand summer and having to wear scanty clothing, can't cover up those lumps and bumps.

I actually feel more tired and lethargic in the summer, haven't got a garden so have no choice but to be out and about all the time at the park.

I am actually a little bit depressed in April when it starts to get sunny and then happy again at the end of September when I feel the first chill in the air. I don't say it to anyone though because they all think I am nuts. Definitely an Autumn/Winter person.

Think I have SAD in reverse.

I prefer winter.I love having a real fire going and being all cosy in the sitting room.
I don't really like heat either ,I don't like lawn mowing or hedge cutting (and we have a LOT of hedge.

Jesus christ on a bike!

You lot moan when it's winter, complain when it's summer.

1: Hang out some laundry, you'll feel good about yourself

2: Buy the kids some long sleeved cotton t-shirts and broad brimmed hats, and forget the sunscreen.

3: Mow the bloody lawn.

4: Get off your ass and take them to the park.

5: Stop being so miserable.

I look shite in hotpants. So I don't wear them. God damnit I do love summer though. British summer is never warm enough to make jeans uncomfortable anyway.

You need to get some prozac and enjoy the sunshine whilst it lasts.

1. You need to get some Valium.

1. Learn to understand the subtleties of tongue in cheek humour.

1. And no, don't ever be tempted to wear hotpants, they really wouldn't suit you.

my god could you be any more histrionic

constant sense of guilt
constant guilt
I agonise
stresses me out
makes me feel quite guilty

without stating the bleeding obvious some people have real problems

you dont - get a grip

only bunnies at hefner villa should wear hotpants.they do scream trollop

I want to scream trollop, sm.

But if I were to wear hotpants, the only thing screaming would be the children running away in fear.

TheSteelFairy2, I have reverse SAD too. What should we call it? 'HAPPY'?

I agree, Undercova. I love it when it starts to be chilly and smell of autumn leaves. And in summer all footwear hurts. I long to be in my comfortable boots again.

Summer whingers.
You like being cold?

I agree. Also hate wearkng thin revealing clothers

Ah Lyra, we can get away from the cold (heating, jumpers etc)... not so with the heat.

mrsbean78.... honey produced locally to you is supposed to be a good hayfever remedy.

OP... why don't you;

Buy a swing for the garden.

Hang your washing out because DD will enjoy passing you the pegs.

Pick up the poo, mow your lawn and reclaim your space from the cats.(apparently, big bottles filled with water discourage them, but I can't imagine why)

But please don't wish summer away (esp if you're in the NW) because my children will drive me insane if they can't play outside!!

HAPPY

Hot And Pretty Pissed off? Yes.

No, no, tethersend, it's the cold you can't get away from. It gets in your bones and you cant get rid of it. I've just spent 6 months permanently cold with numb feet. I'm ecstatic that it's warm again.

If I could take any remedy for hayfever I would think yabu, but I have physical pain from sneezing, breathing ishoooos - wheezing like a geriatric dog, constant nosebleeds (from sneezing), headaches, sore eyes, coughing and unlike my last pgcy this one hasn't given me superhuman powers to stop hayfever...and its only April.

don't like wasps

dh hasn't put the washing line up so the silly little clothes horse thing doesn't take a load of washing

am miles from a park so wouldn't go anyway

love putting dd in the garden to run around, but then dh is a little anal about the mowing (that being said the local cats crap on it regardles...

Am still in 2 minds though so if someone can cure my hayfever yabu (and no the local honey doesn't work for me....)

You have a garden
You have children who have the ability to play in a garden
You have enough space to hang washing out.

Your life is perfect (compared to mine)

stop complaining

Lyra- at least one of us will be happy all year round