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Hi! I have 4 children that I SAH with. 8, 5, 4, and 2. I get completely overwhelmed sometimes with their demands and constant needs. It's not always like this, but sometimes it honestly just does become too much. The only thing I can think of to d...
Hi Betty! I chose to stay home with my daughter, too, and I'm loving it! As with many of the other posts on here, I have my own business that keeps me occupied throughout the day. It is very flexible so that I can work when my daughter is sleeping...
Congrats on being ABLE to be a SAHM. Being a mom (for your own or a stepchild) is not easy and if you are along side of us who's other half works nights it is even more difficult. Keeping little ones quiet while Daddy sleeps is difficult at best.
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Hey girl! You know I am in your boat. I have a 19 month old daughter who I love dearly and I can 't dream of leaving in daycare. I am also pregnant with our second, due July 1st. About a year ago, I was working at home and was able to have Amberle...
I can understand where you are coming from. My husband when I married him 21 years ago had high army rank and was gone a lot. I just got involved with things that would let me bring my daughter along. I took her everywhere. Now that husband is ret...
Oh my gosh if you figure out the secret to this please let me know! I not only became a mommy but moved across the country away from all my friends. I was a very social person and my sister had a baby 6 days before I did...we had always thought we...
Betty,
I'm in the same boat as you right now. I LOVE staying at home with my kids, but at the same time I would love some me time. I have a hard time stepping away, because when I was growing up my mother was always gone having her "me time". Her...
Betty,
I can definitely understand where you are coming from. I am a stay at home mom of 2 girls (5 and 2.5) and my husband works crazy hours and 6 days a week. He is typically very tired by the time he gets home and usually fall asleep watching ...
It can be tough being a stay at home mom, that's for sure
I definitely believe in creating the life you desire. Bein a mom is the most important job on this planet and we all have times of being frustrated.
I think the winters are so difficult f...
Wow, I have an 8 month old named Zoe! How cool?!
I'm Patrice. I own my OWN business called Tuscan-Home-101.com where I provide information for those wanting to design, decorate, build, or landscape their homes in the Italian style. So, I am a wor...
Hello Betty
Life can get pretty monotonous at home especially when you have a baby and are more house bound. I am assuming that Jerry goes to school so you have mornings to yourself?
Well, think of ways that you can spice that up!
Crafts or scr...
For me the first year was the hardest it seems tha every minute your tending to needsand my favorite part its the guessing what she needed. It gets easier hun. The older they get the more interactive they are. They are able to tell you(maybe not i...
Hi there Betty
From reading your post, it sounds as though what you miss most is your old life and the opportunity to take care of yourself. You also mention that you can't take the boredom and say you feel frustrated.......my own daughter is 25 ...
Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 9:41pm on March 26, 2009,
Andi Winterfield said…
- Betty,
I'm glad I could be of some help. it's nice to here that your little one is sleeping through the night now, it helps so much doesn't it? I know how you feel about leaving her to go back to work. I don't think I could stand to go back to work, maybe when they're both in school. I recently started my journaling again too, I forgot how helpful it can be to get all those thoughts out and work through them. I'm loving the vinegar, it works so well and is cheap! I have to adjust the lavender though, 2 drops doesn't seem to be enough. Maybe I'll try 4 tomorrow. Take care of yourself and have a great night.
Andi
- At 7:19pm on March 11, 2009,
Eleana said…
- Hey, sorry I've been slow on the comment replies! Most of the time I'm looking at this on my cell phone, and I have trouble posting replies on there. Soooo, about keeping Zoe asleep for a couple more hours - maybe after the last feeding in the morning you could put her in bed with you or in a bassinet next to your bed so that as soon as she stirs to wake up (you prob know around what time she does by now so you can be prepared), you can grab her up and either try to nurse her back to sleep (sometimes if I leave Morgan on for long enough he falls back asleep) or get her back to sleep some other way. Sometimes if I catch him right when he stirs, I can get him back to sleep before he really even wakes up. Other than that, I would just keep inching the bedtime up by a few minutes every night until she's finally sleeping around 8 or so and it will prob get better after that. Morgan wakes up around 5 or 6 now. :-) Teething...yeah. He's got his bottom two teeth. Had them for months now. No signs of any more...it wasn't so bad for us though. Lucky us so far. :-) And yeah, I saw all those other moms trying to peddle their business ideas off on you and I thought, "She can use some real advice here..." How is the bf morning baby duty going so far?
- At 10:26am on March 9, 2009,
Megan Calhoun said… - Great to have you here! We've got an incredible group of women connecting on all sorts of topics, so kick back and make yourself at home. Check out the Twittermoms groups (we have something for everybody). The Twittermoms discussions are quite entertaining, too. Or, just get to know your fellow Twittermoms by browsing some Twittermoms profiles or searching for moms who share your interests, add friends, and start twittering with some incredibly smart and interesting moms.
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- At 7:06am on March 9, 2009,
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- At 5:39am on March 9, 2009,
Eleana said…
- hey I saw your comment about getting Zoe on a schedule. Are you breastfeeding her? I'm breastfeeding my 7-month old son and something that finally helped us get him on a pretty good daytime schedule was actually setting a really strict nighttime routine. We give him a bath at 7 pm, then he gets his lotion and jammies on, I breastfeed him and then I rock him to sleep. We also have special toys only for nighttime. So, while we're getting his lotion and jammies on, he plays with his seahorse, which glows and plays lullabies. This happens every single night. Once we started doing that for a while, he started going to sleep easier and it's actually helped during the day too. As far as daytime naps go, Zoe should cue you to when she wants to sleep. Look for yawns, rubbing her eyes, losing interest in toys and people, slowing down, that sort of thing. As soon as you see any of these signs, you should try to put her to sleep. Otherwise, sometimes you lose your window and then they're up for another couple of hours and fussy the whole time! =) hope that helps, sorry for the book I wrote on your wall! :-)
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