Hello, hope your summer is going well, even with all the rain. What a wet wet summer we've had this year!
Well, us parents have had it rough I am sure I can't be the only one who has moaning, whining and bickering Children through the summer holidays, please tell me I am not the only one who has more grey hairs and thinning hair from the stress of bored Children?
It's all good when it's sunshine days but as soon as that rain comes it's back to fighting kids and the moaning and whining starts, (cos of course we can turn on the sunshine and stop the rain, huh?) When it's dry they're out playing or we go to parks. We've had a couple of days out but it's not cheap taking three Children to theme parks so we limit what we do to one day out a week and some of those days out are more expensive, then the rest is as cheap as possible.
What about us as parents, we need an escape from the whirl wind that is the summer holidays, (before we lose what marbles we have left) Take a little time out, we all deserve it, Little trip out for a coffee with another friend in need of some R&R, you will thank yourself for it, trust me, I know it can be hard especially for those doing it alone but what good are we to our Children if we are at the end of our tether in dire need for a small break? Even just an hour at a coffee shop having a cuppa in peace with a book (you have had to put down a million times to fend for small humans) just for an hour or so.
I went years & years never going out without toddler, baby and Child with me, I used to turn down invite after invite for nights out because I felt guilty leaving my Children at home (they would have had an adult with them) even though they'd be asleep. I suffered postnatal depression and anxiety so in my head I would make several scenarios of what could happen if I wasn't there.
Well eventually after a lot of pushing from friends and family I started to get out more and be me not mummy for a few hours and it was like therapy, amazing, I would feel revitalised (unless out for cocktails, then once a hangover passed, ha-ha) we as parents need this time out, we need time to just be ourselves and not just a parent. So set aside time for you, have a coffee and read a book, meet a friend, go to the pub or go wild and have some cocktails and never feel guilty, we too deserve to have a bit of time to ourselves. And boy do we need it sometimes.
I hope you get some R&R, I do love having my Children home and spending quality time with them, doing lots of fun things out & about or at home when it's too wet. Soon it'll be back to the madness of school runs and homework.
Ta ta for now
J x
Well, us parents have had it rough I am sure I can't be the only one who has moaning, whining and bickering Children through the summer holidays, please tell me I am not the only one who has more grey hairs and thinning hair from the stress of bored Children?
It's all good when it's sunshine days but as soon as that rain comes it's back to fighting kids and the moaning and whining starts, (cos of course we can turn on the sunshine and stop the rain, huh?) When it's dry they're out playing or we go to parks. We've had a couple of days out but it's not cheap taking three Children to theme parks so we limit what we do to one day out a week and some of those days out are more expensive, then the rest is as cheap as possible.
What about us as parents, we need an escape from the whirl wind that is the summer holidays, (before we lose what marbles we have left) Take a little time out, we all deserve it, Little trip out for a coffee with another friend in need of some R&R, you will thank yourself for it, trust me, I know it can be hard especially for those doing it alone but what good are we to our Children if we are at the end of our tether in dire need for a small break? Even just an hour at a coffee shop having a cuppa in peace with a book (you have had to put down a million times to fend for small humans) just for an hour or so.
I went years & years never going out without toddler, baby and Child with me, I used to turn down invite after invite for nights out because I felt guilty leaving my Children at home (they would have had an adult with them) even though they'd be asleep. I suffered postnatal depression and anxiety so in my head I would make several scenarios of what could happen if I wasn't there.
Well eventually after a lot of pushing from friends and family I started to get out more and be me not mummy for a few hours and it was like therapy, amazing, I would feel revitalised (unless out for cocktails, then once a hangover passed, ha-ha) we as parents need this time out, we need time to just be ourselves and not just a parent. So set aside time for you, have a coffee and read a book, meet a friend, go to the pub or go wild and have some cocktails and never feel guilty, we too deserve to have a bit of time to ourselves. And boy do we need it sometimes.
I hope you get some R&R, I do love having my Children home and spending quality time with them, doing lots of fun things out & about or at home when it's too wet. Soon it'll be back to the madness of school runs and homework.
Ta ta for now
J x
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