Feel like motherbitch from hell....

[emkana]

I'm a SAHM with dd1 (nearly 3) and dd2 (8 months). The last few weeks have, for various reasons, been very tiring - even more so than 'normal' weeks. I've now reached the stage where I have NO patience whatsoever left, and the scenes in which I shout get more and more frequent - do you ever get those moments where you shout at your child because they just spilt a little bit of juice or something - not because you really care, but because you've just had ENOUGH - and at that precise moment you can just see how you would watch a similar scene in an afternoon channel 5 movie and think "CLEARLY this woman is INCAPABLE of being a mother, no WONDER she ends up drowning them all in the bath"
I say BRING ON THE EASTER WEEKEND - dh better give me LOTS of rest...

Don't worry, Freckle, honestly, there are me and Janstar, JanZ, janinlondon and JanHR just for starters. (I have noticed today there is a fio23, we already have a fio2 and I think they may get confused too - it happens with nicknames )

Janh, your posts here are so heart-warming & wonderful to read. You dd's sound fab. Hooray for you--hope my mistakes turn out lovely & happy children too. (Yes freckle, I know exactly what you mean.)

Aw, thanks, epk!

(Of course we still have our moments...but I think all the mumsnet babies will grow up pretty happy because they have such great mums!)

Tamum, i was thinking about that too. (Synchronisesd menstrual cycles).
It always seems to me that it's all nice on here for about three weeks then various arguments, then nice again and i was thinking, i wonder if we all get PMT at the same time

janh - I think it's a testament to your mothering skils that your dds would even answer that question seriously - my brothers/sister would have just snorted/cried/given a sarcy reply at that age (I think. maybe I'm underestimating them.)

Poor dd occasioanlly gets yelled at too, but my main worry is that she will end up a mumsnet orphan, owingto the inordinate amount of time I spend on here

Frequently loosing the plot with ds 4 yrs and have a 6 week old baby who cries for England. So patience is even shorter with ds1 and anyone who has a 4 year old knows they have annoying teenage tendancies!! Every morning I wake up and think right I am going to be really patient with ds1 but by breakfast time, I am gritting my teeth trying not to shout at him. I apologise when I feel I told him off just because I was in a bad mood and we kiss and say we love each other afterwards. It is nice to know that I am not the only one who raises their voice every now and agin. We are all human. But I do feel guilty if he has been told off alot and he is laying in bed fast asleep looking all innocent, (till the morning when he turns into "Kevin the teenager" 4 year old style!!!!!

Moosh, are you actually bringing up my child? The description of your 4 year old sounds spookily like my 4 year old. Does yours do the stomping up the stairs thing and then slamming the bedroom door???
None of you are the mummy from hell, 'cos I am and my kids are going to be in therapy forever as a result of my shoutiness!!
Isn't motherhood just so much HARDER than you ever dreamed it would be??????