Night Shift

We're alon the same page then @comet 😊

Sheesh @Faith-and-Hope -

you must have faith and hope to deal with all these issues - I am not sure how you do it - but I do remember days that were well planned but fell apart at the seams and sometimes I had the pollice involved and wonder how on earth I ever did all that

How do you keep your calm? and how many children do you have? - I hate to say it but your daughter refusing to get up sounds like a problem I had with my son - and I fried chips and wandered into his room with the frying pan telling him that if he wanted chips for breakfast he had to get up right now!!

And I imagine the Food Police would have had a lot to say about him have chips for breakfast every morning - but hey - it got him off to school on time

Some of your day worked out - so great

And - as far as organising goes - after talking about it, thinking about it, planning it etc for a couple of weeks I have finally booked my plane to and from Canberra - in July - the weather here has been so bad I have put off going every day - day after day - but I did it on the phone today

It can be so hard organising life - esp if we talk to friends on Facebook in the middle of the night

So what a day you had??

So glad you told us about it

Decadian

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@TAWNEY wrote:
@Faith-and-Hope, oh gosh, what a crazy morning 😨, So relate to the lost keys. Enjoying a Chai Latte with you atm, yum. Hope the 18th goes well this w'end, it will. You're an amazing mum, dodging baby dragon fireballs, etc....... etc....... Do schedule regular 'time out' for yourself. Good to see you here, you warm my heart & make me smile 🌷

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Thanks @Former-Member

You do that for me too 🌷

As do many others here ...... 😊

Haha @Decadian I had a nice laugh imagining you walking into your son's room with the frying pan of chips every day. Whatever works!

Hi @Angels333

I think I know what you mean - I find I tell people the outside of things - but during ordinary life events it feels dangerous to me to really open up about the way it really is

However - I feel more comfortable with myself - but it is embarrassing to have people get either really deeply (and sincerely sympathetic) - I don't feel comfortable about that - and I don't like the "chin-up" part of the Mood Theraurus either

I feel entitled to my feelings but so many people - not here - but in the world generally - try and take them away from me and I resent that

I talk to Life Line too - it is the best place if our feeling are very deep - we aren't trained here and they are

You are thoughtful and kind toward others and care for yourself too - I hope your session went well today

Decadian

Hi @Decadian

I have 5 kids - one is married now and another one engaged, so I call that 7 ......

I started with 3 kids under 2yo - one of the twins bouncing in and out if hospital for a few years after that, so it has been all-go for most of my life now .....

Baby steps have been the key for me, breaking things down into smaller and smaller pieces until I felt I could do all the little bits, one at a time at first, and I have built up to multi-tasking a lot, and not expecting everything to go perfectly, cos it rarely does, so things going "well enough" does me for most of the time now.

I also had to learn to close my eyes to a lot of mess, and come ba Ci to it when and where I could. I read some books about getting and staying organised, so a lot of the clutter in the house now is actually "organised" mess. I am very good at sticking $5 washing baskets Nader any built up areas of junk and shipping the basket off to the room of the kid it belongs to. I have to keep buying $5 washing baskets cos they don't come back from the baby dragon caves in any sort of hurry. They like "stacked baskets" and "tipped-out-in-a-hurry-baskets" decor apparently .......

Love the hot chips for breakfast !! I have been known to have Dark Chocolate With Almonds occasionally 😊

@Faith-and-Hope

I love your Baby Dragon Baskets - and your story - or is it sometimes a nightmare?

My second - only child now - was prem - and didn't thrive - I know know she hates the smell of formula and I had inverted nipples and she was too weak to latch on - so things were touch and go for a few months

And I had (I love your term) a baby dragon too - omstars I do not know how people manage with large families - one of my grandsons has 5 kids - I think they have told him where they are coming from by now

And with 5 kids still at home - I don't - can't imagine the chaos with all these people in and out of the house - some refusing to get up - ah - I admire you - and I guess you know where they come from too by now - aw - that's a terrible joke

I had so much trouble getting pregnant and staying pregnant - my daughter is a miracle - and it's better not to remind her about that

I have trouble organising my own life - and yet I must ring Centrelink this afternoon

So it's make a note of what I want to tell them

Go to the loo

Make a snack and get a drink

And play a game on Face Book and wait wait wait wait

Back later after I ring Centrelink

Decadian

@plasmo, what brand of chocolate do you have in Aussie? Do you have Purdy's?