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| Does anyone ever feel like do the same things over and over? I feel like it's one never ending cycle of pick up toys, do laundry, do the dishes, pick up the toys, do more laundry, do the dishes again...and so on and so forth. I am so exhausted by the end of the day I don't want to do anything else. I get up and start the same cycle over again. It's like this day in and day out and I am ready to tear my hair out...I would love some "btdt it gets better" stories OR recipes for stiff margaritas ;) |
| Posted by chrissi on 11/19/2008 10:06 PM
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| Totally understand. I usually plan something in the morning to get us out of the house. Then home for naps and lunch and I do chores during that time. I just have to get out for a few hours each day. It makes the day go by much faster. |
| posted by Jessica on 11/19/2008 10:18 PM
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I was seriously just thinking the exact same thing! Yea, that is good advice. Get out before nap. Today I took my 8 month olf to a hotel that lets you use their pool for 5 bucks. She loves it! Go to a local museum or to a pet store. How old are your kids? When I worked in a daycare we used to make pumpkin shakes with the kids. get some vanilla icecream and a can of organic pumpkin, but in a big bowl and let the kids mix it up and eat it. It tastes neat and its got a lot of vitamin A. A couple of weeks ago I paid the neighbor girl to do my dishes for a week. Sounds crazy but I NEEDED a break from the mindless chore. I paid her fifteen bucks to come by each evening and do the "end of the day batch." (Total of fifteen!)
Something else that helps me SOMETIMES is to "let it all go to hell" for a day! I just don't worry about cleaning or organizing or picking up for a whole day. We also eat out or get a "Hot and Ready" pizza from Little Ceazers, it's 5 bucks and they have 'em ready to go.
The next day it's back to the cycle,but it truly does help.
Hope some of this helps YOU! |
| posted by lauren on 11/19/2008 10:42 PM
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Here's the thing, we live out in the middle of nowhere. The only places in "town" to go are the library and the pub. We go to the library every day. We are a one car family and hubby works long hours. I am a teacher who stopped teaching to stay home. I don't regret it, but I get SO bored ;)
thanks ladies |
| posted by chrissi on 11/19/2008 10:49 PM
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| I told my husband that my life felt like the movie "Groundhog's Day'. |
| posted by Allison on 11/20/2008 12:47 AM
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| Well thx God that you have a pc.I enjoy the little games on Yahoo games if I get really bored.But mostly I read.I live at my library.I am always ordering books online and waiting foir them to come in.I only have 1 friend in this state and talking w her a couple of times a week helps.I also love the sites that have recipes on them. |
| posted by Lexi on 11/20/2008 11:14 AM
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honestly, money has alot to do with it. if we all had money, then we could plan outings better. but because everyone is so broke, we have to stay at home.
i am in a never-ending routine as well. all my friends work. so i am left to be with my 2yr old all day. we play and play and play some more, in between chores. |
| posted by ERIN on 11/22/2008 11:19 AM
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Amen Sister to the one who said she's living the movie Groundhog's Day!
Money doesn't determine whether you can get out. Seemommyrun.com is a great resource for getting a group together to do walks/hikes/runs together. Free. Moms clubs are a great way to get groups together to go to the park. Picnics are always fun, and all you have to do is pack up the lunch you would have had anyway and go eat it. YMCAs and community center have activities that are free or almost free. Libraries and even Barnes & Noble have story hours tht are free. B&N usually also has a Thomas the Train table set up where your kids can play for as long as you can stand it while you flip through magazines or check out books or even read to them. All free. You just have to be creative in looking for the resources in your community to find what's out there. If your kids are two or over you can make a scavenger hunt out of a trip to the grocery store. There are lots of ways to have fun without having to spend money on every little thing. If your kids need something to do, just give them a box and some crayons or washable markers (you can get boxes for free from the liquor store, electronics store, or grocery store)
I agree, it does usually feel like our work is never ever done. The Flylady suggests that you just identify when your work is done a little differently. She organizes her work into day, week, and month-long cycles, and at the end of each cycle you just relax and know that you are done with that job till the next cycle. If you look at a lifetime of work you will never be done, of course, but you wouldn't look at your jobs that way in a professional or workplace setting anyway, so don't defeat yourself by thinking ahead to how you're going to have to do the laundry all over again. Although if your house is like mine you truly never have done enough laundry....
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| posted by Cindy on 11/22/2008 12:58 PM
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I'm right there with you, being a stay at home mom in all honesty is like this for most. I feel like I clean up the same mess of the house every day, deal with the same bicker with my two girls and carry our year old son the same moments of the day. Ground hog day the movie, for sure sticks out to me when I think about my life.
I read if I have a book I'm into, go online yet when it's not many places you go to that gets old REAL fast. I have close gal pals who I talk to, but their busy like me so it's a catch them at the fly and hope we can talk long. I can't talk on the phone much on the day, and if I do it's annoying since kids are in the back ground making it differcult. Cleaning gets old, the same ole chores gets mindless and even trips at the super market is routine. For me it's the getting milk AGAIN, my kids are milk monsters and it's no longer then 3 days keeping a gallon here untouched.
Soon our little ones will get older, we'll have our own time again and not have to clean as much missing it crazy as it may seem. I try to think of it as it's the same everyday, but one day I'll miss it and have too much time to do nothing I'll wish I had things to do. As long as hubby keeps being messy, and not helping I'll have chores even when the kids are old enough to not need me as much. By that time I may have a dish washer, and that mindless finger chewing chore can be cut in half. LOL! |
| posted by Martica on 11/23/2008 11:31 AM
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