How did you cope when your last child started school?

[OrmIrian]

Because I'm a wreck . I've always worked but when DS#2 was born I started to work 2 days a week from home. Not always easy but DS and I worked it out and it's been lovely. Nearest I've been to being a SAHM. And now he's starting school. Just found out that term ends on Friday not Tuesday as I thought so this Friday will be my last day working at home with DS - just the two of us on our own, pottering around together. And I can't stop crying.

I can see myself switching on CBeebies next term just to feel closer to him - and I hate bloody CBeebies. Does anyone else feel like this? I'm being totally pathetic I know.

I really am at this. I can't beleive so many people are so happy about it. I really must be a very oversensitive flower I think . Maybe if a life of uninterrupted capuccinos and newspapers awaited me rather than the office and housework and still running around like blue-arsed fly getting everyone ready for everything, I'd be more thrilled .

Sadly it will not be a life of uninterrupted cappucinos, that's just an illusion I would like to maintain for the first few hours of having all chldren in school. But it will mean enough free time for me to actually get some work done, minus the bill for several hundred quid a month that you get with a nursery place.

Ahhh yes. No childcare fees. Now that will be nice. Not that I paid so much in the last few years (only needing 2 days and getting NEG) but even so.... though I think I might have to keep what I save to pay for the quite terrifying cost of school holiday clubs I'm still reeling from that one...