i hate the weekend already.......

[Titania]

yes its me.....moaning old cow again.....sorry but I just need to get this off my chest....

We were supposed to go out last night.....I managed to get rid of my headache after trying every trick in the book, and I finally got myself geared up for it and accepted leaving the kids for the night. Then MIL turned up.....VERY late (almost TOO late)....rang the doorbell for ages and woke all the kids up. Started stomping around and generally using a loud voice. That was it then....the kids wouldn't settle. MIL wouldn't let us go with all the kids screaming, so we had to stay and settle them. When they finally settled around 10.20, it was too late to go anywhere so DH suggested we just get a chinese in and sit and watch a DVD....MIL invited herself to stay and we ended up paying for a chinese for her as well. She sat in the middle of the sofa so me and DH couldn't get anywhere near each other. She went about 11.45.....and I ended up in bed, stressed and exhausted.

DS2 was up a lot of the night moaning for no apparent reason. I finally resorted to giving him a bottle but that didn't help. He eventually moaned himself back off to sleep about 4am.

Now DH has gone to work......he went at 6.45. The kids are playing me up something rotten. They are all so tired but still insisted on getting up, cos their daddy got up to go to work.

I have got nothing to do today, and am totally lost. It's pouring down with rain here and totally crap. The kids are grotty and whiney. I've tried getting them all to cuddle up in bed with me and watch a dvd together in bed, but they were even fighting over that.....I gave up in the end.

DS2 is in his baby walker throwing toast everywhere and stropping now and DS1 and DD are figthing about what to watch on the telly. They started fighting the second they got up.....about who should go to the toilet first of all things!

DS1 is nearly 5 and is getting to be a right handful....to the point where I just can't cope with him anymore and end up in tears over him on a regular basis.

I HATE THE WEEKEND ALREADY......

sorry....rant over......

fancy coming to liverpool/manchester? or us coming to yours or to shrewsbury?

MIL was in the wrong but I'd try to just write it off, what a PITA though. Can you spend the day with a friend and get them out of the house somewhere, even if it's a wacky warehouse or something? I do sympathise, but adult company will make it seem a bit easier. Is there someone you could invite over? Hope your day improves.

Oh, Titania, I was just going to post on your other thread to see how it all went last night anyway! I'm so sorry - what a shame.

It's always worse when the weather's crappy. Like www says - is there anywhere you could go for a couple of hours - a friend, soft play area, something? Or just a video that you know will shut them up!! (sorry, that's bad mother talk )

I have mornings like that too, thankfully not today so far. My dh went to work before the crack of dawn so I'm definately in the boat today.

Today I've got to drag them all to the shops on the train, in the pouring rain too and the thought of it fills me with dread. However I know I'll get a look around the shops (admittedly a short one) if I take them to the play barn thingy for 30 minutes or so. I'll have to stay with them but they only get to go if they behave.

Ok I know it's bribery but it works in our house. Would anything like that work for you?
I don't spend nearly enough time catching up on all Mnetter stories so apologies if isn't for you.

Oh sweetie. Sounds like a nightmare. I haven't got any helpful suggestions but I do hope the day gets better, hon.

oh flower so sorry ir did not work out - keep on trying it will get there - when are we trying for a meet up next ?

I am feeling exactually the same as u this morning!
My not so dear h is working 12hrs all weekend (as he did last week 2) & I like u, do not drive so can't even really go any where!
I know the kids r going 2 drive me insane today, as ds1 is already asking where we r going today.
To make me even more fed up, my husband has been working lots of long shifts lately & yesterday when he has a day off, he goes 2 his friends house from 5pm-11pm!
That's not all either. You can see why he is not popular with me at the moment by reading the "Discusted & angry" thread!
Sorry I can't be of more help, but I thought I would let u know that you r definatly not alone!

well the eldest 2 have just spent the last.....um.....at least an hour in the bath.....just kept topping up the warm water....anything to keep them quiet......however, just had to get them out as they are looking like 2 little prunes.....they are getting dressed now....i give it 10 seconds before the arguements start again........

Hugs from a fellow weekend hater.

Partner working,peeing down with rain, grouchy overtired baby.
A pile of ironing to look forward to.
No real change from a normal weekday here.
Any suggestions of cheering up strategy helpful.

have you got newspaper or any paper make footstep with them and palm trees find some buscuits or whatever is for their lunch nad create a tresure island ( well get then to make and create with help adn tehn have a carpet picnic lunch

Titania - sounds like you're having a time of it. Why suffer in silence tho' Next time your MIL does something like that say in a jokey way ' hey! shove over you've got my place next to sexy legs' and bloody well make sure you wedge yourself between them so she has to move. Sounds difficult but I guarantee if you do it - you'll feel tons better and you won't feel half as stressed. You'll be better able to deal with kids too - we all have our own way of dealing with the little terrors - you've just got to be firm - good luck - hope to see you're feeling better later on!

(((hugs))) to all of you who are having a crappy weekend - I really sympathise as I'm having one too. Dh works nights, including every other weekend, and last night was his only night off this week. I was really looking forward to a nice romantic night in with a bottle of wine and a chinese, but he fell asleep in front of the telly and didn't wake up until I went to bed, grrr . He followed me up, expecting a bit of the other but I was so mad by then I really wasn't in the mood.

I don't have a lot of adult contact, dd is gorgeous but only 15 weeks and not much of a conversationalist, all my family & dh's family live on the other side of the country, all my friends here have family around and while I go to mum & baby groups and have made some new friends, they all have their own partners/families etc and I don't want to hijack their weekends. Dd won't take a bottle so I'm tied to her in case she needs a feed, so I've had to turn down offers of nights out etc.

Sorry to rant, feel better for writing it all down.

I'm currently resisting the urge to encourage dd to be as noisy as possible so dh can't get any beauty sleep before his shift tonight !

looks like the rains set in for the day here......

sorry to hear your are having bad weekends TG and titania

we were supposed to be having a nice family weekend this weekend but DP has ruined it, he drank way to much last night was still half drunk and very annoying this morning and is now asleep in bed, we have been arguing because he has been such an a this morning and now i feel totally fed up

like you TG I have no friends or family around so am stuck in here today with DD 13 weeks. sorry to ramble just feeling sorry for myself