Anybody else absolutely sick to death of trying to raise 3 kids in a house the size of a shoe box?

[MilaMae]

Because I am!!!!!!

Totally fed up with it

Oh and if it rains again tomorrow I shall be locking myself in the bathroom with a very large bottle of wine!!!!!!!

If anybody in a similar situation has any tips on keeping ones sanity in a teeny house,during a week of rain with 3 kids please feel free to share. I'm all out of creativity. Just how do other people do it without shouting???????? How do you manage to make space so they can, you know- play???????

indeed. though i have one of those huge bookcases/room dividers from ikea.

i need some small bookcases for kids room though.

He is a talented man It makes the cramped space more bearable, especially since the fitted wardrobes and toy chest

Thanks Cargirl

So how do you all manage the playing thing when you have all the dc holed up inside????

Or are you all gibbering wrecks too by the end of the day????

gibbering wreaks.

we have utilised the garden well, its actually a fair size. am working on the kids playhouse atm, planning on adding shelves for craf stuff, slight larger tables and stools, plus a toy chest for train tracks etc.

i really want to set up a shelter for the garden as well, patio more of the end closest to the bungalow and put it under cover my parents have done.

yes pretty much a gibbering wreck.

We have spent £15k to make our loft usable (couldn't make it into a proper room because of the head height) so dd1 is going up there along. Fortunately the youngest one (I had 3 in 3 years 6 weeks) generally get on very well and play together.

Give them lots of exercise, let them watch TV and be ruthless on the amount of clothes and toys etc they have. I have 3 sharing a wardrobe and chest of drawers, have one shelf of books. If they don't play with their toys then they get sold etc etc

Also the girls have the largest bedroom. also our house is open plan so there is more floor play space but it is very noisy.

Oh yes, yes and yes I am soooo fed up of living like sardines.

I have 3 ds's and a house the size of a rabit hutch and have been told I am in the top 40 for a 3 bedroomed house. Which means by the time ds1 is giving me grand children I shall be somewhere near the top 10!!

I have bunk beds in one room and cot squeezed next to my bed but after trailing housing officer round my house and asking her where exactly Im supposed to put a bed for him, she replied that there is just a huge demand for 3 bedroomed houses and I have my allocated points!!! AAAARRRGGGHH.

She advised me to rent private! Oh yeah lets uproot children to a nice house we cant afford only for the landlord to tell me he is selling it in 6 months and we end up in homeless unit!!! EXCELLENT IDEA.

I have had 5 kids today (one neice,one sons friend) and as it was lovely and sunny this morning I packed a picnic, got spare clothes, towels, blanket to sit on and we all headed of to the river for the day......... the minute we got there it started spitting. Ever the optamist, I told them it it was just drizzle and they carried on playing. Blanket down, baby sat surrounded by food, kids race into river JUST as enormous crack of thunder bellows overhead. DS2 freaks and is hysterical (untill he sees a fire engine then panic is forgotten). I hastily grab everything and we head up steep hill just as heavens open!!

Im pushing a pushchair that has baby, blankets,towels,picnic AND all of childrens clothes now flung on, up a hill with flip flops on and it is like a bloody monsoon.
Flips flops kept slipping of, I could barely breathe and I have mascara dripping of my chin!!

We race home and panic sets in. Crap I have 5 children in a tiny house that already looks like it has been burgled. SO. I thought sod it,dried the kids, got a DRY blanket, put it on the room floor, got picnic back out, and we all had picnic in the living room whilst watching Charlottes web on sky! The kids had a ball and although I SHOULD be tidying house now they are all asleep I think hey ho, they will mess it up again tommorow, I think Ive earned a well deserved drink

CHEERS

do you know what really makes me laugh, is that this is a bungalow for the disabled, but there is no way in hell you can get a wheel chair in the bedrooms, and turn it round and get back out. its impoosible!

hallways are quite wide though. am trying to see how we can use that space well. [notnowbernard, can you send your dh round please]

i was just thinking thered be little point locking yourself in the bathroom with wine - within 2 mins you will hear a voice saying 'i need a wee'

Oh cantseemy feet

Cheers!!!!!

Don't get me started on the 1 loo thing.

We are having major probs with dtwin 1 who likes to take his time to do a poo errrrrr not an option in this house.

After dd having had 2 rather messy accidents due to dtwin1 pooing in his own sweet time I begged him(actually on bended knees) to do his poo quickly today.

He did it in record time and shouted down "If you push really hard they come out quick don't them mummy"

Still have no idea how I potty trained 3 in 1 go in this house,it's all a messy blur now!!!!!!

Missdee floor to ceiling cupboards in your wide corridors would be fantastic,think of the stuff you could cram in.