Driving with the Pumblettes

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A shiny new thread . I thought if I didn't do it this evening, words would be had by magi....

Right, let bedtime chaos commence chez pumble town!

Keep hanging, you'll get there.

I am very grumpy - lots of small irritants all coming together at once to make me thoroughly irritable. It will pass - wasn't helped by our internet being down for 12 hours.

Are you still hanging on?

i am resumed to normal service - sweetness & light (ish!!!)

Drowning a fair bit.

P2 pushing me to my absolute limit. Mr P pushing me almost as far as my limit so not doing brilliantly

Glad things better your end. When do you see PFGD again?

I thought I'd replied to this days ago - DOH!!

Off to see PFGD in about 4 weeks time - can't wait.

Hope P2 calms down a bit - will school holidays & having P1 at home help?

Just warn Mr P about scary me - broomstick primed.

Can I come and stay for the weekend magi?! I could bring p3 for you to coo over?!

Hope you've had a good week

Hope Mr P gives you some time for yourself this w/e. Are you running still?

Shall I bring a Travel cot for p3?!

Assuming you have gin?!!

I'm so tired. I love the pumblettes but my God I'm tired. I have now got to a point where I hurt all over from the tiredness. I just wish I could get a teeny tiny break

That's an awful hour you posted at.

When will you wean P3?

When you do leave them all with Mr P for a w/e & go to a nice hotel all by yourself & sleep for a whole 48 hours!

P2 was being a monkey over night....

Well, p1 fully weaned at 14 months when pregnant with p2. P2 fully weaned at 19 months but was only on morning and evenings from before a year. Because p3 takes a bottle of expressed milk when he drops to two feeds a day, escape overnight looks possible.... Could be a while.

I'm hanging on in there just a little overwhelmed and mr P still so far from fully recovered its all falling to me in many ways. Life will get back to normal but at hat time of night, nothing seems possible!!!

Nothing is ever possible at 2am.

May I gently suggest that P3 is weaned a little earlier than P2?

Whilst I am firmly in the camp of 'breast is best' - it doesn't have to go on for ever - I gave up at about 10 months with DS - he was eating 3 hearty meals a day & still wanting what I call 'tit mummy snuggles' at 3am. I was demented with tiredness - there comes a limit to it all.

Your health, sleep & general well being as is vital to all the P's as is their need for you.

Hope Mr P gets better asap. Is he 'under' the doctor - as it were?

Been awake much of last two nights due to p3. Have woken this morning in a v dark place. Mr P working from home today. Would it be wrong to get in the car after feeding p3 just to get away for an hour or so. Sleep deprivation is such a killer and makes me so very very low.

It would not be wrong at all to have a couple of hours to yourself.

Sleep deprivation is indeed a killer - I am foul if I lack sleep. I do find that food, especially carbs, does help a bit.

All I can say is that it won't last for ever (although I bet it seems like it will atm) & at least it is April & the sun is shining.

So I didn't get out...painting a bedroom instead but just taking a break to feed p3....

I need time away from mr P. I can't do this anymore. It's like having a fourth child.

Can you go off to your Mum's?

Not saying that in 'go home to Mummy' way - but would seem to be your best bet for a break.

PM email me if you want to say more.

(((xxx)))

I may be having a v rough patch with mr P but the pumblettes were so good today. they loved the theatre and p3 awake throughout and loved it too!! A lovely lunch and p3'd first sit in a highchair (even if no food!) which gave my lap a rest. Followed by a mooch around the National Gallery hunting for pictures we see in books we read. I know I am biased but they are lovely children (even if on here I am normally moaning about them!). It's a crappy time and I don't know where the light at the end of the tunnel is but at least there are rays of sunshine!

Rays of sunshine are good! Life is never an unclouded blue sky! And it can't be a long tunnel if there are rays!

Have just been chatting to DS - he told me that he didn't realise what 'tired' meant until children arrived.

Was v. good & did not comment or snort/snigger!!

So impressed you didn't comment or laugh magi.... It must have been so hard....!!

I spent Easter with my childless brother and his girlfriend telling me how tired they were and watching them nap in the day...I can't wait until they have children....!!

Another long night from p3. Wish I knew why he's stopped sleeping. Am so tired.

Well we aren't sharing a room ang barely talking when pumblettes in bed but that's as much space as I'm getting as couldn't go to my parents thus week.

Am enjoying days out with the pumblettes though and focus sing on that abd making the most of the holidays.

How's the decorating go ?

Decorating should be finished today!! YAY!!

Glad you are enjoying the holidays - but you & Mr P will have to talk at some point.......... and that's just an observation, not a nag.

Internet service provider is being changed today so I could be offline if it doesn't go smoothly!

Interestingly I did yearn for a hug from mr P today so maybe all is not lost

Very glad to hear that! I think you are right in the middle of baby shock (x 3). Don't give up on it/him now ..... better things are coming.

Dare I say - don't get preg again!!! 3 is plenty!!

Decorating finished. Yay! Spent all day getting things straight again.

Off to see DH's aunt tomorrow - she is 102 & has just been admitted to hospital with a nasty chest infection. Up till now (with help) she has managed 'home alone'. Don't thing that's going to continue - so very sad. Had always hoped she'd just slip away at home, in her sleep............