You know when your youngest child has their first 9 to 3 day at school and you spend your day ...

[suzywong]

moping
I have to change my life now to wit:

Have to take an empty trolley round the supermarket (no child to sit in it) and steer it myself (no willfull child to push it) and don't stop for bribes of chuppa chops halfway round.
Had to do housework drudgery for a clear run of 2 hours (no excuses to stop for cuddles and to have my hair played with or share a pack of Twisties)

I just missed him

and now I am Just A Suburban Housewife, fat frumpy and forty.

Anyway, mustn't grumble ... just thought I'd be more prepared for 2 days a week sans enfants.

Oh Suzywong, I hope you soon come to love it (in fact, if you are like me, those 6 hours will come to feel more like 2 hours!)

Try to see the positives, the opportunity to really be you again.

S'pose
but the real me is a tad dull

floozy... hop on a bus and get your tights off! You'll feel much better!

SNORT!

but that's just it, there are NO double decker buses here

I have been playing loud Skunk Anansie on my volvo stereo, though

It is hard, I know. I can't get used to DS2 being at nursery all day on a Monday and he starts full time in September at proper school - this year is rushing passed and it will be September before I know it. End of an era, I suppose.

Is there anything you have really wanted to do but have been putting off because you have no time.

Can you create yourself a project like get the garden sorted (or maybe you garden is already sorted and it is just mine that looks like a bombs hit) or decorate a room?

I have been studying in my spare time but it isn't the same as having a little person for company all day.

nope, it's not the same as having little person for company

well last year I over-saw the building of our house extension and that took up quite a bit of spare time.

I 'msure I 'll snap out of it

Just wondered how anyone else felt when it suddenly dawned on them that little person was otherwise engaged all day

Get a job?

got one
evenings and weekends

I'm not really whinging, just wanted to share the phenomanonononononon

I miss being wanted and hugged of a Thursday and Tuesday

Still got a little while to go before ds2 goes to school, but am currently in the happy phase where he sleeps all afternoon. Look - I'm on MN! (Failing to clear up after lunch, and tackle dd's room)

Ds1 started school last September and it was definitely strange him being gone all day. And then when he gets home he's so tired that sometimes he's just about beyond reason, and not quite himself.

Hi Suzywong - I felt exactly as you did for first four months or so. It's not a pleasant feeling. Now I'm like Dumbled'sgirl and can't believe the six hours went so fast!

(I also went back to work 20/22 hours a week.)

So just wanted to say that although I completely understand where you are coming from (I felt like I had lost a limb initially) it honestly does get better ....

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I was thinking about this earlier today as went to the shop with ds after Nursery.

I've been looking forward to them both being at school but I realised it's really going to happen in 7 months time. Not just some fantasy when they are getting on my nerves.