This week I am finding mothering a hard slog. The 1yo has spent much of the time crying or having full-blown, possessed-like tantrums. She looks a little like this cutie.
She has been awake for much of each night. My husband and I are tag teaming it, but now we both pretend to be sleeping willing the other to deal with the constant wake-up calls. The other two kids have also been struggling with being 3 and 4. The 3yo is trying to assert her authority so is talking to everyone like she is the Queen and you are her slave. The 4yo is struggling with having too much unstructured time, as kindy is still on holidays, so she is a permanent fixture at Twiggy’s or my side. They are also struggling with starvation. “Can I have something to eat?” is the most annoying question ever. This of course is followed closely by: “Can you push me on the swing?”.
I am exhausted. I am dreaming of faraway places. I am bored out of my brain. I am wishing that I win a child-free holiday to this place.
I am grateful for a couple of freebies thrown my this week which has helped keep my children occupied. The team at Colorific sent this box of stuff – The FairyLites Sticker Dress-Ups, The FairyLites Glitter Window Scenes, Face Paint Minis and Giggles Waddling Ducks.
The girls LOVED the FairyLites Sticker Dress-Ups. Great Xmas gift idea! And of course anything face paint related is always a hit in our house.
And then when I was all crafted out I turned to my trusty friend the dvd player. Luckily, we had also been gifted a selection of fab ABC Kids movies by the groovers at Roadshow Entertainment Australia. They were very clever to include the latest Octonauts movie as my girls LOVE everything Octonauts, in fact they call each other Peso and Kwazii. It gets a little embarrassing when out in public. Unsurprisingly, the girls gave the movies a double thumbs up. All of them.
So, now I sit and wait for more packages to arrive on my doorstep to help me get through the last week of school holidays. Preferably the boxes will include a bottle of gin, a nanny and a pair of these.
How has your week been?
Hi, I'm Bianca Wordley, I write about life.
I find this impossible to believe. You must be talking about different children? Not MY nieces?? Feel free to pop them on a plane at anytime 🙂
Ha! I know the feeling! Sometimes I cannot believe the sheer joy that only a minute of peace and quiet can bring to my life!
I so remember pretending to be asleep while Mr Woog pretended to be asleep. I could out pretend sleep him every time. Xx
I wish I could sympathise, but I don’t remember my kids not sleeping.
I hope things settle down for you soon, there’s not much holiday time left now. Hang in there.
Our holidays have finished, thank goodness. I just didn’t want to go out much, I didn’t want to spend a fortune every time I left the house. The weather was crap! By the end of the holidays the kids were begging to go back to kinder and I was almost ready to poke my eyes out!
Hearin’ ya, hon.
It’s been a bit tricky here too. The 9yo had a meltdown yesterday morning because he couldn’t find a piece of Lego from his truck he had taken apart and wanted to rebuild. Like, MELT. DOWN. Unbelievable.
The 7yo, in the first 3 days of Term 4, has managed to misplace 2 jumpers, a drink bottle, a lunch bag and a pair of goggles. We had NO jumpers left until I went on the hunt this morning at school and found them. Gah!
The 4yo is still menacing the dog and being his usual, demanding self. Every time he asks me for food, I want to stick a needle in my eye. Seriously.
LOVE Colorific stuff. Big fan. Hope it keeps those munchkins of yours busy. 🙂 xxx
I love skull candy headphones. Wish I had seen those fluffy ones when I was looking for new headphones for my 6yo, they are awesome.
It’s really difficult to be a mother especially for more kids but all hard works are worth it when you see them smiling when they sleep at night. Having fun with the kids through educational and creative stuff like face-painting is a good bonding time together. airbrush classes