School holiday burnout

[redshoes22]

At the start of the holidays i felt great, balancing life reasonably well.

fast forward to this week i feel washed out, 100 years older. Someone drove intot the back of my car and i don't have energy to fix it, I don't have the energy to complete tasks from my work from home job, i'm shouting/ swearing at the kids (and i'm not a shouter generally more gentle parent), our house is too small for us all without garden and i don't know what to do about selling it and scared of making a bad decision. I've put on a stone ni 6 weeks. I could go on. I had an awful 40th birthday celebration and i'm starting to think my 40th year is cursed.

I feel like realisticly i was just about balancing before and by daring to have a holiday i knocked everything over and i can't get it all together again. Worried so much about my job, home kids. It's all too much. I don't have any help from extended family getting.

Hope your having a better day today! I dropped my eldest at school this morning for the first day off and I felt a weight lifted! Lol my middle starts reception next week and I cannot wait.. summer holidays have been brutal!

Hopefully this feeling will ease as school starts. It's certainly a common feeling to be fed up and looking forward to school starting, but you do seem to have issues wider than just this. After the kids have been back a couple weeks sit down and write down what you want to achieve in the next year and then what you think is preventing you getting there. Then break things down to little steps. Sometimes when I'm in a rut just getting one little thing done (like making that one hard phone call or clearing out that cupboard) makes me feel better. What is that famous quote about making your bed every morning? Start the day finishing that job and you set yourself up for more success the rest of the day!