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little vent about my icky mornings.
Topic Started: October 21 2008, 09:24 PM (93 Views)
shari313
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i blogged this earlier today. i know when i read it that other moms have it much worse, and have more children to deal with, but when i'm in the thick of it, i feel like the worst mom, and hate my job.



my day so far (venting) Times are approximate

7:30 gabey comes into bed, and i let him, because i've already sent him back to his own bed once, and had to sit with him. head still hurts, shoulders still sore.

7:40 gabey wants to go in the living room, and i decide to try to let the dog out and get a bottle ready before giddy wakes up. walk in the kitchen, and find dog poop on the kitchen floor again. have to clean that up.
gabey is making too much noise, and i hear the baby starting to fuss.

7:45 clean up the poop, take the dog out, and stand outside in the cold so he doesn't get under the fence somewhere and wander off.

7:50 get bottle ready, gabey's asking for junk, dog is under foot.
give giddy his bottle, and repeatedly chase gabey from coming in, and distracting giddy... it's one of the few times, i have some quiet giddy time.

8:00 change giddy's diaper, and put clothes on him... change gabey's pullup, and put clothes on him. put some baby einstein on.

8:30 change poop from giddy's diaper, have to change his shirt because he got poop on it. changed gabey's pullup because he pooped.

9:00 change poops from gabey again, and hope he's done, so i put underwear on him.

11:00 get another bottle, and put giddy to bed for nap
put coat and shoes on gabey and shove him outside for some quiet.

11:05 gabey comes back screaming, because he fell and scraped his hands a little bit. won't stop, wakes the baby up, i put him in his room so he'll calm down.
try to keep giddy in his room for a little longer, binkie him, and lay him back down. doesn't really work.
11:10 smell poop again, and have to change gabey back into a pullup because he pooped his underwear.

12: give the dog a bath, because he stinks to high heaven, have to keep chasing gabey out of the bathroom while i clean the dog.
12:15 try to finish drying charlie off, put the wet baby in the high chair so i can clean up the dr. pepper he spilled all over the living room floor and sat in.

12:45 a little lull.... gabey is in a shirt and pullup, and is quietly playing with a toy.. giddy is in just a diaper, and is trying to sabotage the computer, i keep having to move his hand away from the mouse.

today is much better than yesterday. by afternoon yesterday, i was crying.
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rach679

((HUGS))

That just sounds exhausting reading. Hey, it can only get better right?
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blessed4times
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((((((((hugs)))))))
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shari313
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and today, it just started earlier.

any time i try to wake up earlier, so i can get prepared and have some quiet time... gabey wakes up ony a few minutes after me, and the whole thing just starts earlier. it's actually better for me to stay in bed as long as possible, because then gabey actually sleeps.

the good thing is that now, even if he wakes up too early and has his cutoff still, he's not upset by it anymore. after taking his med in the morning, he has an hour of no food or milk... usually i can get him to sleep right through the hour.
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You should find something YOU like to do and do that quietly in your room in the mornings. Whether it be painting, or reading a book. Seems like if you leave your room the boys are springing to wake. That way you can get your "quiet time" but you arent laying in bed feeling like you are just wasting time.. yaknow?

*hugs* Sorry you had a rough day!!!! It doesnt matter how many kids you have, or who's had it worse..... when its YOUR rough day.... its still rough!!!! :hugs:
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rach679

I do what Angi says.

During the week, I have 1 child that comes at 630. She will go back to sleep for 1-2 hours. So I'll take the time between then to check my online stuff and work on school stuff. If Hailey's friend isn't awake then me and her will have some 1 on 1 time. I don't let her friend sleep past 8am. Then we'll all "wake up", get Hailey dressed and eat breakfast. Even if H wakes up before 8, I put the TV on for her. If she needs a shower, daddy will do that.
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shari313
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i'm thankful for our evenings. we've been putting the kids to bed by 9, and they stay down (gabey usually doesn't wake up until around 3am, thankfully, so i have until 11 to read, and watch movies with jeffie... or "whatever" lol.
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