Does anyone else ever get the urge to just run screaming from their life as a SAHM?

[Olihan]

I'm just hoping what I'm feeling at the moment is normal and someone else can understand where I'm coming from.

I have 3 dcs of 5.6, 3.10 and 2.6. I'm a SAHM and have been since I stopped teaching when ds1 was born, so 5 and a half years.

I know in some ways I am very lucky that I don't have to work but the sheer drudgery and monotony of life is starting to send me a bit doolally.

The constant nagging to get them up and dressed in the morning, the horrific 5 minutes as we try to leave the house for the school walk, the constant mithering for food, the fighting, the permanent mess, the fact that I have no time or space to myself, the never ending washing/drying/ironing/putting away, cooking decent healthy meals from scratch that end up in the bin, spending hours trying to come up with meals that they might eat, the battle every night to get them into bed.

It's so bloody wearing.

I don't wish I hadn't had them, I love them more than life but at the moment I just want to suspend my life, go back to being single, childfree and remember who I used to be.

Tell me I'm not alone in this, please?

[Maninadirndl]

Oh God they're coming to Bavaria and they want cocktails! I have never even tried on. Shall have to watch that Tom Cruise "Cocktail" video and learn something.

Girls get an image of me with spotlights mixing drinks throwing mixers all over the place with my partner wearing a bow tie and little else.

Except in my case the bottles all end up on the floor.

[Olihan]

I wouldn't panic Manina, if we're starting on the cocktails on the bus by the time we get to you all we'll need is a cushion on the bathroom floor and a plentiful supply of hair bobbles .

Oh and a truckload of paracetamol and a few gallons of water.

[Maninadirndl]

hey I could invent a whole new cocktail.

Instead of the tacky "Sex on the Beach" I could come up with "Snogging on the Steppe" cos that's what I did when I met my wife in Mongolia in Terelj. All bloody night. And on a riverbank. She made a perfectly good pair of jeans absolutely filthy with mud.