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SAHMing - having a low day

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swottybetty · 02/12/2009 10:46

nothing terrible. just dont think we will get out today. not getting out makes me want to jump off cliffs. and when we dont go out i find the staying in really hard.

tuedays suck. the only thing i can get to is surestart where you need to be there at 9.15am cause full up by 9.17am, and ds just never lets that happen. i woke him up at 6am today hoping that he would sleep before we went out, course he didnt. he is 6mo, all the other babies sleep in little chairs in the baby bit. ds can still barely sleeping without a lot of rocking in sling then ambynest. so will cry at surestart without nap (no wont sleep in buggy if we go on a tram or down noisy road).

there is a 12.45-14.45 session at surestart but dd is a mess by midday and asleep by half past.

learning to bloody drive.

really fecked off.

do not tell me to go the bloody playground. i will of course be going to the bloody playground but i hate the bloody playground.

i do not have the energy to start being a good parent now. RIGHT. heave ho, going to get ON IT. rant over wish me luck. dd is whinging non-stop at the moment. arrrghhgghhg

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Santacentric · 02/12/2009 10:49

There's no way to sugar-coat it, some days are just crappy by nature. But if you were in an office/running the nation/climbing Everest there would be ucky days, too. My theory is that we need the bad days to appreciate the good ones... but then I am an eternal Pollyanna!!!!! (who has bad days, too, or course!)

McDreamyingofawhiteXmas · 02/12/2009 10:50

You know it's Wednesday don't you?

Being a SAHM can be dull, infuriating, boring! Have you any friends nearby that could pop over and see you while your DS gets his naps?

My DD is 10 months and likes to have a nap mid morning (she's just gone now) but my DS is still on half days at school until after Xmas so in 45 mins time I will have to wake her up to go and get him

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swottybetty · 02/12/2009 11:09

medal for day's best comeback please. i am making peanut butter cookies with dd. i am doing it AND being less irritating that i can cook's katie ashworth. i havent rhymed once

ty for responses guys

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leggybird · 02/12/2009 11:14

Yeay! Big gold star for you! I HATE Katie!!! Good program - my 3 yo DS loves it - but she drives me potty lol

I'm having a stay in day too. Bathroom needs a major clean cos my dad and stepmum coming on Friday, down to school to get DS from nursery in 20 mins then home for lunch.
Have to make Shepherd's ie for tea that I won't get to eat as I'm at work! Grrr.
The joys of motherhood, huh?!

fairylights · 02/12/2009 11:22

there are some days that i think i just have to get to the end of this with gritted teeth.. much sympathy. But i also find that doing some baking with the older one makes me feel like a "good" mummy so good move with the cookies!

bintofbohemia · 02/12/2009 11:23

Solidarity from here if it helps - also stuck in with two DSs (3&1) because have no car and DS2 has D&V so we're stranded. Like you, I hate the bloody playground (all broken glass and stray dogs) and feel like a caged tiger.

Doesn't help that the house is bloody freezing. I like what Santa says - some days are just crap. I'm going to try a bit of baking with DS1 whilst DS2 is asleep to try to feel like have acheived something. Unless he wakes up and scuppers it. Hope your day picks up.

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swottybetty · 02/12/2009 12:32

mmmm... cookies. salt and sugar and fat. what a combo

i feel compelled to say that i'm sure katie ashworth is lovely and very talented BUT that programme and its bloody stupid rhymes is so awful that she has no chance of shining. dd of course loves it but then dd is 20mo and thinks thinks that thomas is fascinating and yojojo sweet.

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leggybird · 02/12/2009 13:03

Swottybetty - you are right. I didn't mean that Katie herself was horrible, just the non-rhyming rhymes and songs that don't flow! I'm sure she is lovely! Sorry, Katie, if you happen to be reading

Babieseverywhere · 02/12/2009 13:43

I wish I could stay in today.

I don't feel well and 15 month old DS was up most the night.

So far I have dragged myself and DS out in the cold to take 3 year old DD to nursery (15 minute walk each way)
Back again an hour later for her christmas concert, (in which she was so cute I cried

Back again 1.5 hours later to pick her up.

Will be going back out in a couple of hours for her ballet lesson and back again to pick her up...all I want to do is cuddle with a blanket inside.

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swottybetty · 02/12/2009 20:23

bint and babies everywhere - hope you survived. my day got worse before it got better. by which i mean before they all went to bed. have wine now. and rofl at leggy's katie apology - i too was compelled my a -oh-noo-what-if-katie-reads-this-and-takes-it-seriously impulse .

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bintofbohemia · 03/12/2009 09:12

Glad you survived! We're in for another day of the same again, unfortunately. I'mwondering what time I'm going to crack - this is day 3.

leggybird · 03/12/2009 13:30

Bint - day 3 of what? Staying in? DS who is 3 had me up 3 times last night - first time asking for a yellow balloon???, then for a wee, then cos his pillow had fallen off his bed! - so I'm beyond tired to day.
Still, managed the school run, Tesco, retrn school run and lunch. Now watching Katie cooking fritata - bless her!!
Oh I need a cuppa. Anyone else while I have the kettle on

leggybird · 03/12/2009 13:30

Oh God, now she's singing about it!

leggybird · 03/12/2009 14:00

Ok, I reckon she only knows one tune and has to get the words to fit!
While I was making my cuppa (and I can't believe I am posting this!) I started making up a song. So, very loosely to Wake me up Before You Go go...

Take an egg,
Crack it in a cu-up,
Get a fork, and whisk it u-up,
Asparagus.....nope, lost it. Ah well. Gonna bug me all day now lol

steph1512 · 03/12/2009 20:42

hi im new to mumsnet but had an awful day in too...so thought i wud look for sum threads that might cheer me up for feeling sorry for myself! this is currently my 5th afternoon stuck in n i shoudnt complain usually busy but everyone we know is ill.

forgot to say my girls are 3.5 and 20mths!

heres for a better day 2mo x

poshsinglemum · 03/12/2009 22:24

I feel the same a lot of the time. It's just so meh at times.
I find the unstructured time but always somehow lots of chores to do, really hard.

leggybird · 04/12/2009 09:39

Being a parent is like that. It's not an exact science and you can't predict what's going to happen. Take today, for example, my sis was supposed to come over with her DS (6 months) so me and my youngest DS (3 yrs) were looking forward to going out for lunch. She can't make it as her DS is ill so we are at home again. Watching I Can Cook ahhhhhhhh!!
I also find the unstructured days the hardest but the housework has to get done and I am counting the days til Sam starts nursery in January!
Have a good day all

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