I can't find time (trigger)

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Registered: 03-26-2003
I can't find time (trigger)
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Wed, 11-16-2005 - 12:21pm
I am a mom of 4 so my life is beyond hectic. I do go to monthly pdoc sessions but that's about all I can find time for. I would like to find time to excersise and go to therapy but it just doesn't exsist. I am so BORED with things in this house. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, kids...all I have time for is a few minutes on here. The holidays are coming and I feel very unprepared. I feel like everything is out of whack and swirling around my head like in the Wizard of Oz. I can't get a handle on anything long enough to do anything productive. I was so mad day before yesterday because my daughter's work called her in right as she got in the door. I had planned to FINALLY take that walk while she watched my 3 y/o. A stupid walk. Why is it so hard to go for a stupid walk? I have no adult conversation and my hubby is NOT much of a conversationalist. I feel like I am living in a perfect box. The box is immaculatly clean but void of emotion. I have thought of doing something stupid just to give a wake up call to everyone. I want to let them know that when I say I need help with things, I need it for more than 10 minutes after I say it. No one asks how I am or how I feel though I tell them all the time. No one is listening. I guess instead of quietly telling them what I need, I will show them.
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Registered: 04-06-2005
Wed, 11-16-2005 - 1:38pm

sounds like they are taking advantage of you...how old are all the kids?

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 11-16-2005 - 6:27pm

ok...i feel your dilemma..i have 3...it's tough b/c you have a 3 year old..i feel lucky cause i've passed that hurldle & my youngest is 7.let me tell you how i got thru those years tho.cause mine were one after the other...3 in diapers at the same time.when they were small like that i went to a gym that had baby sitting.when they whined about it i simply woke up early & went before hubby or anyone else woke up.now i have all my equiptment at home & do it when time permits.but then again...all my kids are in school or can entertain themselves.yours will too soon.

.as for therapy when i had a small child i either went in the eve or i took her with me.another thing i did when my youngest was 3 was i sent her to preschool a year early.it gave me 1/2 a day a couple of times a week & that helped alot.
don't do anything drastic.
trust me...it aint worth it.