Hello everyone.
Using the library computer, as dh is moving everything up today, and we are waiting around the village (have done - library, cafe, park, coffee at friends house, play corner at church, buying dora comic at newsagents, fortunately they have both fallen asleep in the pushchair - we've been out since 9am, so thought I'd come in here for my mumsnet fix!) until he gets back from moving stuff in and picks us up, which hopefully won't be too late.As soon as the girls went to bed last night we lugged furniture around, until 1 am. Of course as soon as we went to bed dd2 woke up full of beans, so i feel about 100 today ( and look about 150 - must get round to dying my hair!).
Cazwa, don't beat yourself up, I think we've all been close to breaking point, and can't imagine how hard it must be if your dh is away alot. My dh is usually so patient and calm with ours that it puts me to shame, but there have been several times when he has walked in and I've just had to leave the room to lie on the bed and calm down, because I feel like I can't take it any more. It's a knackering, unpredictable and often thankless task so it's not surprising that we lose it sometimes.
Supergrrl, I know what you mean about the telly, I am a complete telly head (always have been), and have to be really careful that it doesn't just get left on all day. The cbeebies radio on bbc7 is good (although dd1 stares at the blank TV screen when it is on). I try and have sessions in different parts of the house, upstairs to bounce on the beds, kitchen to spoon rice into bowls (dd1's favourite hobby)etc. However sometimes when the going gets tough Cbeebies is my saviour, and I try not to feel too bad about it.