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  • I am so incredibly done w/ being a SAHM. My lids drive me crazy, fight, makes a huge mess, ungrateful and whiney. BUT, I don't want to go back to work either. Thinking of buying a one way ticket somewhere

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    05.06.08, 10:10 AM [ Flag ]

    • ^^kids!

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      05.06.08, 10:10 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • how old are your dcs?

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    • I will join you. i was just saying this to my mom today

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      05.06.08, 10:10 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I so hear you in everyway and I've been looking for a job (a well paid one) for a year now. Just start sending out resumes

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      05.06.08, 10:11 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • tomorrow's a new day. I go through phases like this too, unless its not a phase and you're always like this.

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      05.06.08, 10:11 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • OP - so glad I'm not getting flames for this post.. but truely I am so done. I really wouldn't leave b/c I love my family - I kind of just can't stand to be around them anymore. where is the joy in this? I'm a maid not a mother (and yes I have help)

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      05.06.08, 10:12 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • OR from above: ITA. sometimes I think about getting therapy

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        05.06.08, 10:13 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • OP - I did but I feel like all is was just me bitching about something I can't change right now. I mean, they're little, they're jealous of one another, they need to mature a bit.. I can't rush this - it is what it is

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          05.06.08, 10:18 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • hey, we are with you. you need to get some time away to be ALONE

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        05.06.08, 10:13 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • thanks! Selfishly, I do get alone time while kids are at schhol in am, etc.. but thats my "take care of house time" (what a treat) then when they get home its crazy again. I really hate when they're home

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          05.06.08, 10:15 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • you need to do silly, useless things like shop (my fav) even if you dont buy anything -- or get a coffee ... nothing that has to do with the house or the kids. remember when you were young :)

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            05.06.08, 10:16 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

            • UGH - dh and I took dcs to park this weekend. I was looking around on our walk home at the young people having brunch w/ a cocktail w/ friends and all of their freedom. I get really down. My life and career was so amazing and exciting and so WAS I

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              05.06.08, 10:22 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • LOL, I can't even play with my kids anymore. I loathe the idea of playing on more annoying board game or pretend princess game. I ask them to play with eachother.

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            05.06.08, 10:17 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • OR looking for a job, you need to take a small vaca with dh. I just did this and the kids are so much nicer! Dd keeps saying "I love you" out of the blue. They are ont heir best behaviour and you come back refreshed.

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        05.06.08, 10:14 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • we have a long weekend planned for wnd of this month but older ds is going through MAJOR seperation stuff, not sleeping, regressing, etc.. Feel so bad for my parents who will babysit while we're gone

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          05.06.08, 10:16 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Have you really thought about going back to work, even part time? Maybe it would be better for all of you, they'd miss you,a nd you'd be happy to see them and have some adult time.

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      05.06.08, 10:22 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • OP - well to add more to the story, 2 of my 3 dcs are SN so I really don't have an option to leave right now. The therapy alone is a full time job - keeping on top of things, following through at home. I could never leave that responsibility to a nanny

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        05.06.08, 10:24 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • Oh, I see, what type of help do you have?

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          05.06.08, 10:24 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • a wonderful, young, smart "babysitter" everyday after school, cleaning lady 2x per week - she does laundry too. I know I'm lucky to have that help BUT I am potty training 2 boys at once (I clean toilets daily) and I MUST do laundry everyday myself. Cle ng up after breakfast takes an hour!!

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            05.06.08, 10:28 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

            • It will get a bit better after they are potty trained, going through that my self now too. Can you drop off your laundry here and there to get a break? Figure out what is the most annoying/bothersome and try to have that taken care of.

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              05.06.08, 10:30 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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