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Do you live in Groundhog Day?

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JoshandJamie · 14/12/2006 19:24

And does it suck out your will to live? Do you do the same things every day - like making a meal, putting the meal in the bin, cleaning up after the meal, wiping surfaces, unpacking dishwasher, repacking dishwasher (and repeat most off this again at lunch and dinner), tidy up toys, put on washing, put washing in dryer, fold dry laundry, pack away, and repeat.......

I'm 33. How many more years will I be doing this?

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LoveMyGirls · 14/12/2006 19:28

of course everyone does.

thats why i try as often as i can to do something out of the ordinary or i would go stark raving bonkers.

Even though you get tired from just doing the essential things everyday you have to make an effort to have the energy for other stuff, stuff that makes life fun and worth while.

GlennCloseAsCruellaDeVille · 14/12/2006 19:29

but it gives you the freedom to let your imagine take wing, so it can't be all bad

QuootiepiesChristmasName · 14/12/2006 19:30

yes... it's very scary. Im 20, so... about 25 more years to go! [frgrin]

reidie · 14/12/2006 19:31

mines the same too. back to work in 3 weeks tho so i'm not complaining. would rather have groundhog day at home with ds than coming and going to and from work!

LoveMyGirls · 14/12/2006 19:32

If your feeling fed up try and arrange something fun to do like have friends over or go out for a meal, cinema etc

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JoshandJamie · 14/12/2006 19:40

My original post probably sounds a little doom and gloomy. Am fine. I do get out (sometimes) and arrange fun things and run a business for brain stimulation but I still can't get away from the fact that unless I hire a daily housekeeper/cleaner (which sadly won't happen) I have to do this same stuff repeatedly. It is so mind-numbingly dull.

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moondog · 14/12/2006 19:50

J&J,before long you can train your kids to do this.

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JoshandJamie · 14/12/2006 19:52

Well they're supposedly trained to pack away their toys. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Still very little though so will let them off the hook...for now

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sarahhal · 14/12/2006 20:08

I'm having a different kind of night tonight as both the DSes ill so were in bed by 5.30!!! So i have actually had an evening/teatime to myself which is unheard of. Feel totally re energised (well, until the wine stared earlier than usual so now ready for bed three two hours earlier!!)

I guess that this is what it is all about ...

martini · 15/12/2006 02:39

sarahhal - agree that days when kids are ill are often great. Thye sleep all day and you finally get to do all those things you've been meaning to do for months.

I too live in Groundhog Day - my house is constantly festooned with washing and just when have put it all away DD wets her pants to create some more. Worse still is the time spent putting away clothes only to watch them being unloaded from drawers, stuffed in various bags/ rucksacks/ mini suitacases & then distributed round house by DD playing "going on holiday".

Have fantasy that in summer DP will take kids away for week and I will be able to find all those lost things that spend most of my life looking for.

Think its that time of year - somehow life seems better in summer when you can have all meals in garden and kids wear less clothes so less washing.

beegeeWithBellsOn · 15/12/2006 05:56

Yep - groundhog day here!

Up at 5am again - groan. Fed dd (9ths), change nappy, put ds (3 yo) back into bed...'no, it's not morning yet, look dark outside' etc. Folding washing, about to get ready for morning rush.

Same old...same old...

It definately gets to me from time to time. Well, quite often, actually. And I'm usually a cheery sort of soul! I do spend a lot of any daydreaming time I have fantasizing about a lie-in, a long soak in the bath, a holiday by the sea ALONE...you get the picture.

Oh, and I still get to go out from time to time...usually need to be asleep by 10pm though.

I'm 36 (- feel more like 66 at mo!) How many more years to go??

I get what you're saying J&J.

I come on MN to break the pattern!

drosophila · 15/12/2006 07:51

I work three long days and for me it's Groundhog week. Occassionally I take a half day's leave and have some time to myself but leave is running out.

Scootergirl · 15/12/2006 07:52

Groundhog day? Surely we have groundhog hours where the 3-year-old asks the same questions time after time and the baby throws the same toys on the floor for us to pick up. I'm sure I sometimes have groundhog minutes!

ellanatal · 15/12/2006 09:46

Every day is groundhog day but isnt it amazing how quickly the day goes! I've got 3 dc (5, 2.2 & 16 weeks) and trying to sort out everthing for them every day makes me get to friday and think - " Hey where did the week go" Think since the baby's come i've lost the last few months in one groundhog day after the next!

Floatinginthemoonlitsky · 15/12/2006 09:54

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DingdongMegaLegsonhigh · 15/12/2006 09:56

I said this very thing to my dh this morning.I stood at the kitchen sink with a tear rolling down my cheek and thinking I'd love someone to just swoop in and say " Mega you go back to bed with a cuppa, I'll do it all today"

reidie · 15/12/2006 10:23

i dream about that all the time mega. Sometimes i fing myself getting angry inside with dh when he gets home from work because sometimes (very rarely but still...) he kinda takes it for granted that because i'm off work i do everything at home with ds, housework etc. He's great really but this seemed a great opportunity to let off a little steam! thanks

lostinfrance · 15/12/2006 19:21

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LucyJones · 15/12/2006 19:25

ellanatal - I wish the days did go quicker tbh. I wish they whizz past sometimes. I often look at the clock and think 'how can it only be 2 0'clock' when it feels like I've been up for days....

SpicymulledSheraz · 15/12/2006 19:29

I have sometimes wished I could break a leg or something so that i could have a few days in hospital away from it all!!

micra · 15/12/2006 21:25

Mega and rEidie, I think you've hit the nail on the head - it wouldn't seem so bad if DP really, truly did his fair share and actually had a clue about how much hrepetitive crap it takes to keep this household running. Because I do it, he's just not aware of how much I do - but going on strike to make him realise just doesn't get me anywhere except twice as much to do in the end, cutting off nose to spite face.

EllieChocolateOrange · 16/12/2006 00:07

I have an allergic reaction (rash all over) today and was trying to think of everything I had done differently from the usual which could have caused it. This was it:

  • I ate a teaspoon of mushy peas I cooked (trying them out)
  • I put my husbands hair gel in my hair

Wow! You gotta do something new everyday, hey?!

CliffRichardSucksEggsinHell · 16/12/2006 00:07

I love you Ellie!

IamBlossom · 16/12/2006 20:00

I live in Groundhog day. fact. The minute I open my eyes, (approx. 4.25am, about 5 minutes before DS2 wakes up for a bottle, and about 35 minutes before DS1 wakes up for good) I am on automatic pilot. I walk through roooms like The Terminator, sweeping my eyes from side to side, looking for cups/dirty laundry/dirty nappies/toys/bottles that live downstairs, making beds as I go. It does grind you down if you let it, but I do also find it quite therapeutic like the previous poster, as I think I have a borderline OCD about my house being straight....I pack the boys in the car and then rush back in to make the house look reasonable to return home to...I am clearly bonkers....

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