Completely Exhausted! and You? the "Whine Line" Is Now Open!

Wow! I remember those days and I have to tell you that there is hope! It lasts for a few precious years, the 'golden' 7-9 group...then they become pre-teens and teens and you will be back to the 'not a full night' phase again.

Actually, I learned by the 3rd kid...stay in the hospital as long as possible and let them 'babysit' for the night. That was HEAVEN!!!!

Good Luck!!!!

I feel ya! I work full time 40+ hrs a week, go to school 2 nights a week, I have a 14 yr old, who only helps when she feels like it, a 2 yr old , and a 9 month old. Neither my 2 yr old or my 9 month old sleep through the night yet. My 2 yr old only wakes up once, and the baby wakes up 2 times. So I'm getting up 3 times a night. My hubby sleeps through it all, and won't get up to help. I have to get up at 5 am to get myself ready before I get the kids up. So I average about 4-5 hrs of sleep a night, then I go to work as a preschool teacher. I feel like I'm in an alternate universe, walking around in a fog. Even on my days off the kids still wake up around 6am. Day of the living dead sure does apply.

Let me start with I LOVE YOU!!! And all you otehr moms who have made posts especially the one with the crazy neighbor, because I too have one of those. My gripe I thik is not so much "sleep" as it is the need for a break,Ihave NO support although I am married I think military men are home more then he is. I have a 2 and 4 year old and I work full time from my home!!!! So like every one else I have 2 kids to watch , laundry to do, (2 laods a day or we drowned), dishes (I cook 3 meals a day), try to work my business and still have time to play with them and all the other things thath being a mom requires. I start my day at 4:00am I clean for 2 hours laundry, meal prep for my 3 meals today). at 5:45 I allow my self to sneak out for a cup of coffe adn a cigarette. 6:00am start work and teh kids get up about 8:00 ( I am spoiled tehy are late sleepers) the whole day is a whirl of me working and them working me. Bed at 9:00 (they play till 11:00) try to get something done so I can sleep in, but I never do, sit on the porch for my other cigarette of teh day go inside watch one hour of TV and off to bed.10-11 ish...

Not the worst schedule in the world but the thing is I haven't had any watch my kids for almost 2 years and I can't remember the last time my husband and I went on a date...

Like I said I'm not really tired, just kinda worn down!!!!

thanks for listening to my gripe,

H.

I am Exhausted i have three kids 18 month, 5 month and 27 yr old (thats my hubby) i have a full time job wich i love my boss allowes me to bring the kids with me even do is harder for me to work, and he lets me work at home sometimes i havent had a good nite sleep since july 2005 i been seek acouple of times and the docotor gave some sleeping peels i had like three nights that i was gone does where the three best night i can remember, My husband is there but not there you have to tell him what he need to do or he wont do it and he doset after 5 to 6 time to tell hi to do it he is selfcenterd no help at all from him:(:(:(

My babies go to bed at 8:30pm after that i clean and clean and clean, and it seems that i can't never finish
I end up goig to bed at 11:00 pm or 12:00 am then i wake up around 1:30 to feed the little one i go back to bed around 2:00 and sometimes i wake uo at 4:00 for another 15-20min then 6:00 up to get ready for work.
My hubby wakes up at 6:30 and he gets him self ready while i am changing the kids dressign them and preparing their bag ( I been asking for help for so long that i just gave up i dont want to be mad or frustrated in the mornign i don't want my kids first look of mommy to be that.) so i just have fun with my kids in the morning.

After all this sleep less nights and all this frastruation I Love my kids and love their smile each morning and their eyes each night when their falling a sleep and its all worth it.

Oh I love this! Sometimes you just need to whine! I haven't had good nights sleep in about fours years. I have a 3 year Son who, is constanly trying to give me a heart attck! he can sleep for ten minuets in the evening and be up all night. He is a handful! My husband passed away before I had my daughter, she is 2. This has taken a toll on our family. Ison is contanly fighting for attention.

I am so tried sometimes I fell like and 80 year old stuck in a 27 years body. I am so tired that I have fallen asleep in th r toilet a few times in the middle of the night, now that sucks!

I have three kids and my oldest never slept threw the night until i took her bottle away (now my2 1/2stil wakes for a bottle but that is a whole other story (i know that a bottle at 2 1/2 is tabooo) and now i hav a 6 week old. So that is 3 kids under 5. I feel your pain girl. My husband will tend to the older two but the newest makes him feel awkward (i cant spell)If you want to talk let me know cause i feel your pain girl. Okay I am repeating myself, but you are so not alone.
Hope to hear from you soon
C.

Yes! My 20 month old is getting his molars and hasn't slept in 3 days/nights. Last night I drove him around in the car for over an hour hoping that the ride would put him to sleep. It was dark so I couldn't see in the back and beacuse it was really quiet back there, I was convinced that he had finally fallen asleep. I drove home and when I opened the back door there he was smiling at me and then he yelled hi!
I grumbled hi back and we stayed up together most of the remainder of the night. I'm so tired I can hardly type....zzzzzzzz.

My son's are 2 years apart. 2.10 and 10 months. My 10 month old has started waking up at 2am for some odd reason. I feed him get him back to bed and then the other son wakes up and wants to sleep with my hubby and I. For a while hubby would sleep with our oldest in the guest bed. Well we had a guest, so we transformed his crib into a bed. Anyway, he is screaming and whining and crying for daddy! right next to my 10 month olds bed. He then wakes the baby up! eeerrrrrrrr...... i settle down the baby and he goes back to sleep. Then my 2 year old starts screaming again. We give up and just dont know how to keep him in his bed at night.

Sleep? What... oh, that thing you do when you lay down and close your eyes uninterrupted for 8 hours? Yeah... I miss that.... *sigh*

Okies, truth, mine darlings all sleep thru the nite now. NOT that I haven't more than put in my fair share with four kids... My oldest was four when my youngest was born... I'm sure you get the picture. So sleep was like this thing that OTHER people did (namely my ex husband... gee wonder why THAT didn't work out)

Now it's more like, I fall asleep and wake up about every two hours. Like I can't stay asleep. Sometimes it's due to the fact that my hubby has taken all the blankets and/or the whole bed, is snoring, moving too much... something. Or maybe my brain thinks I might miss something good and doesn't want me to sleep through it. Yeah... sleep. Lovely thing, that.

At least I'm getting a hella lot more than when my babies were actual babies...

CAFFIENE IS MY FRIEND .I AM 45 and a grandma of two, one boy who has a 8 month old daughter and one girl who has a 2 year old son and I live with my daughter and her son. I have Lupus I work during the day and watch Nico at night so my daughter can work all I can say is caffiene is my frined some days that is how it is . When my daughter turned 18 I thought I am done but then she had Nico It is like being a mom again Thank goodness for Cars the movie I can enter my work for the day when he watches. I do Merchandising during the day so I can have a flexable schedule for Nico.

its nice to know that there is another person out there like me. i too have a 2 year old and a 3 month old and i too am very tired!! we all have been sick this whole week. my 2 year old with a ear infection and my 3 month old with pneumonia and me sick with something. try to rest with these two sick ones. im sorry. all i can say is eat some fruits it gives you energy for a while anyway. or give yourself something to look forward to at the end of the day. for me today its greys anatomy. pathtic hah?

I don't evenv want ot get started.....lol

I often wonder just how long I can lay on the couch and procrastinate all of the housework. I have an 18 month old Son, and am 6 months along with #2. My Son goes down for a nap and I think O.K. time to get something done. Next thing I know I am waking to his babbling wanting to get out of his crib. You girls are hilarious! I love the fact that Moms these days really seem to "admit" the trials and tribulations of Motherhood.
Sleep is a much coveted enigma these days. With the, bathroom breaks, the 5-point turns just to roll over, and just when you fall back to sleep.....WHAAAAAAA! It's time to get up! My Husbands laughs because we'll be sitting there watching T.V. at night and he'll look over and there I am eyes closed sitting upright. I float through my days weary and exhausted and wonder if I'll ever make it until my Husband gets home from work. But just when I think I am going to lose it, here comes my Son to give me a cuddle or an eskimo kiss!
And I think, " Kid, you have no idea how lucky you are that you are so cute!"

i'm 23, a single mommy of a 3.5 year old (who swears she's 16) and hold down a full time job as the office "bit%@". after a long day of dealing with the worlds most egotistical boss, i get to go pick up my daughter from preschool, yap with her teacher,and take home a stack of kindergarden homework (like i said, she's more like 16 than 3). get home, cook diner for the 2 of us, sit down and work on the homework (which everybody knows is extremly frustrating no matter how easy it seems) bath time (more like make a bigger mess for mom time) read a story (while she ignores me and plays with her doll) then it's off to sleep for her (ok, actually it means she lays in bed talking to her babydoll for 30 minutes before she realizes that it won't talk back, then she goes to sleep) then i get to do the homefront clean up. water all over the bathroom to clean up, the parade of bathtoys to drain out and dry, the diner mess in the kitchen to tackle, laundry to battle into the washer, tomorrow's clothing to set out (complete with matching hair accessories, or i get reemed by the child!) tomorrows diner to plan and prepare for, then get myself showered, and ready to hit the hay. i finally land in bed around 11:30 or 12, then lay there for 30-45 minutes with every thought possible running through my head before i pass out from exhaustion. then get up at 6 am and repeat. weekends are spent getting up early and driving 50 miles to spend time with my best friend and my god children (her 3 boys) or are spent staying home to "super clean" the house... which my daughter loves to help with (but as we all know, it usually just creates a bigger mess for mommy!) this is my day to day doings, and it leaves me completly, and utterly exhausted. by sunday night, i lay in bed, and vow to myself that i will make some slight change to make things easier, or to get to bed earlier, but, by monday morning, that idea is usually out the window. and to think, i have like 14.5 more years of this.... or more! i need a nap.

UPDATE: 10/25/07 i must say that since i first worte this (8 months ago) my situation has drastically changed. my daughter is now 4, i am engaged, and no longer doing the "single mom" thing. however, my schedule hasn't changed much. i still get up at 6:30, sneek in a cup of coffee, get myself ready for work, get my daughter up by 7, get her ready for school, head out the door by 7:30, work for 9 hours, pick up the child, come home, prepare dinner (once in awhile, my fiance will get home before me and start dinner for me... it's wonderful!) clean up dinner, bathe child, homework, homefront cleanup, shower, please my man, and finally bed. so, i have someone to help a little bit, but he works long hours so isn't really home in time to help much on most days. weekends now consist of family time, or super scrub the house..... fun times for all! in the year that we have been seeing each other, we have been on one child free date! one in a year! geeeeeze! is it nap time yet?