to say that when DS has gone to bed DP isn't allowed to talk to me for ten minutes?

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So, I get home from work, do 'DS' stuff until betime. But when he's in bed, I neeeeed ten mins of no-one talking to me, asking me things etc. Can imagine it's exactly the same for SAHM's as well!

So just now when DP was wittering on (he knows my mn name, so if you read this, that was meant with lurve ) I told him to please stop talking as I felt like my head was about to explode as all I've had all day is people talking to me and asking me stuff

Those first 15 mins where they are asleep and your brain says....'Ahhh. Peace!' Utter bliss

Yup, re radio/music.
Am only just coming back to R4, very quietly, when no-one else is in the car and I can actually concentrate on what is being said.

As I speak there are 3 people talking at the same time and 2 of them are addressing me personally.

Subjects:

1. can we make this top short-sleeved
2. I don't want to wear pyjams
3. Who's doing the bedtime story

Someone else is just singing in my ear.

'Am only just coming back to R4, very quietly, when no-one else is in the car and I can actually concentrate on what is being said.'

I'm totally rubbish in the car - I hardly ever drive nowadays thanks to wonderful Swiss public transport, so when I do I can't possibly drive, navigate and listen to the radio. The kids have at least learnt now that Mummy needs silence for the last few mins of a trip, to find where we're going and park.

Kodokan, we have no off-street parking, the dcs are used to me shrieking at them that no-one is allowed to talk when I am trying to park!

YADNBU. Not at all, not one little bit.

How about that moment when DC has been packed off to bed, you're finally thinking, thank Christ on a beanpole I can finally think of stuff that isn't DC shite, and DP begins with "so tell me all about DC's day".

Euuuurrrrrrgggghhhhh!!! (blows chunks across room and opens second bottle of Primitivo)