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Today I am mostly envying those who are childless...

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MotherSuperior · 28/04/2007 14:31

I bloody well want to lie in
be spontaneous
not break up fights
read the paper from cover to cover
have sex in the middle of the day or morning
have a varied and interesting social life
not constantly hear 'he called me smelly' or 'muuuuuuum, where's the xyz?'

I want everyone to just fk off and leave me ALONE actually. I am fantasising about being alone somewhere like this but with a stiff breeze and having a bed like this .

Thanks for listening. I do love them and I don't mostly want to be childless but today I do.

Please feel free to post YOUR fantasy locations and wants below.

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dmo · 28/04/2007 14:38

well didnt get a lie in as we had to take ds2 to cub camp this morning but then when we came home ds1 friend invited him to the cinema so we did have the afternoon sex and a chill with no kids

singingmum · 28/04/2007 14:42

Haven't had time off from Dc's since october last year and am going nuts thinking of what we could do if we just had a night or two to ourselves.
Sex in middle of the day sounds heavenly as does having a bed like that-actually any bed we sleep on a mattress in living room as we only have a 2 bed house and a Ds and Dd with 6yr age gap so they just can't share.
Privacy would be nice also

MaloryTowers · 28/04/2007 14:56

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Ilovemyboy · 28/04/2007 15:03

I want a good night's sleep
To go for longer than 3 hours without feeding 5mth old DS
To get drunk
To have sex when I want to - not having to fit it in when DS is asleep
To just feel a little bit like the old me for a bit.

But I want all this and don't want DS away from me. I guess I will just have to wait.

tortoiseSHELL · 28/04/2007 15:05

I felt like that this morning when we were running round trying to find ds1's goggles, along with 'she punched me on purpose MUUUUUUUUM' but after a lovely lunch in the garden with a nice bottle of wine, I feel MUCH more chilled! (Check, it is the weekend so wine's ok, oh superior one? ).

If I could be anywhere it would be somewhere like here !

SusanStoHelit · 28/04/2007 15:06

i've had exactly one lie in so far this year and that involved ds being in the bed with me because dp won't ever take him for me.

i haven't had a night out since 10th december 2005 and that was my first since before dd was born in january 2005.

i haven't seen a movie in the cinema since dd was 8 weeks old

ds is 9 months old today nad i have NEVER been out of the house without him

i want a day off

LoveMyGirls · 28/04/2007 15:11

OMG you ladies deserve medals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

twinsetandpearls · 28/04/2007 15:11

I do geta lie in quite regulalry so have no right to moan, but was very jealous of the people who were quite clearly still in bed when I was canvassing at half ten/ eleven this morning.

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MotherSuperior · 28/04/2007 15:12

Tortoiseshell, yeah, yeah, wine's fine at the weekend. We have lots in the house, maybe I need to drink some? Nah, will be asleep by 4 if I do.

Susanstohelit, you poor thing. dmo,

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tortoiseSHELL · 28/04/2007 15:13

MS - go on, have a glass, read a book for half an hour, relaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaax!

kiskidee · 28/04/2007 15:24

click on my profile to see the view from my verandah over the caribbean sea at 6am on a february morning not so long ago.

singingmum · 28/04/2007 15:28

am jealous of anyone who has at some time in their life had a view like this

am very jealous see

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MotherSuperior · 28/04/2007 15:31

When I said petulantly to dh 'I want some romance' he said 'but I snogged you last night' Gah! No no no, I want something like when Pierce Brosnan stops his aston martin during the opening of Goldeneye and he opens the bit by the handbrake and there's a bottle of cold Bollinger.

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motherinferior · 28/04/2007 16:08

Your name is getting to you, my dear. I feel like this rather a lot

I particularly feel like it round Christmas, when friends without children are planning a rather lovely New Year of some sort, possibly in a warm and exotic location, and I'm dealing with pink plastic, fighting kids, and the exotic possibility of staying up till midnight in front of Jools fricking Holland.

Also I would like to be able to apply for a job that didn't require a behind-the-scenes childcare arrangement of quite gargantuan proportions. I would like to be able to work late. And then possibly to go for a drink. And I don't personally feel an in-house snog cuts the romance mustard, really.

EB1 · 28/04/2007 16:18

My ds's woke me at 6:15am this morning! Nice!
Dh didn't get up until 8:00am Charming!

Can't remember last time had a night out, am never without the boys unless their in school or I have to go shopping on a sunday so I can leave boys with dh.

Haven't been to the cinema for about 5 years now.

Too tired for sex, much to hubbies dislike but then he doesn't do much to help so hey ho.

Looong for a lie in............

singingmum · 28/04/2007 16:26

whats romance?

MrsWho · 28/04/2007 16:28

dd2 is being particularly awkward atm , one wrong (in her mind) word and she screams for 2 hours then dd1 cries 'cos we can't go where we are supposed to be.
I want to scream too!

At least they are at their Dads tomorrow and I am going riding for the first time in 3 years

motherinferior · 28/04/2007 16:29

Oh yes, just as my DD2 was emerging from threenage hell and apparently turning into a total sweetie she has developed a new tantrum style, complete with drumming feet on floor and growling

powder28 · 28/04/2007 16:38

I'm jealous of my friend who is going to glasto, and when I see young free single people sitting outside pubs getting drunk.

'I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now...'

iota · 28/04/2007 16:42

I must admit to feeling a pang of envy when my db turned up here without his kids and mentioned that they both have door-keys now, so now need to hurry back for them.

His kids are are teenagers though, so I guess he's struggling with a different set of problems

MrsWho · 28/04/2007 16:42

MI- is she 5? They do seem to have a new phase then? (hoping thats all it is !)

LynetteScavo · 28/04/2007 16:43

In June DH and I are going to spend the night IN A HOTEL WITHOUT OUR CHILDREN! For the first time in 8 1/2 years we will be childless and together for more than a couple of hours. I love my DC's to pieces, but I am sooooooo excited!!!

singingmum · 28/04/2007 16:43
Envy
Earlybird · 28/04/2007 16:46

Beat this for a rough (but somehow amusing) start to the day:

DD was sobbing in my bedroom this morning at 5.30 - utterly distraught that I hadn't woken her at midnight so she could meet 5 of her friends at school for 'The Blu Tack Mission' (her phrase).

Before bed last night, she earnestly described to me how she needed to assemble supplies for the mission. Her list consisted of:
a torch
a bowl
a rope
a plunger
a ladder
a snack (there's a girl after my own heart!)

At midnight, each of the 4 girls were going to walk by themselves to school (it's a mile) carrying their supplies (using the torch to light the way). When they arrived, they would use the ladder and rope to climb into their classroom on the first floor of the building. Once they had gained entry, they would use the plunger to remove the Blu Tack from the walls (no fingerprints), would then place it in the bowl, and descend again using the ladder and rope. Somewhere in there, the snack would be consumed - not sure if it would be used to boost flagging energy, or as a reward for 'mission accomplished'. The girls would individually return home with their supplies, and 'treasure', and climb into bed with parents none the wiser.

Anyway, she was desolate that I had failed to assemble the required supplies, and also had failed to wake her. She was sure her other classmates were there waiting for her, and she let them down.

Full marks for creativity, but please not at 5.30 AM! Oh.........she's 6 by the way, and we live in London, zone 1.

MrsWho · 28/04/2007 16:53

EB- think that beats ours!
Though dd1 did once have a paddy in the middle of the night 'cos Grandma wouldn't come and take her bobble out of her hair (was about 2am and she'd actaully phoned her ) she was about 5 at the time.