I'm so tired!

I just wanted to complain for a second. I'm so tired. My babies are STTN. They go to bed between 11 and 1am and sleep until 7 or 8, eat, then go back to sleep until about 10 or 11. It's been nice. The reason I'm so tired is that my best friend is visiting from England and her and her 3 kids are staying with us. It's mass chaos around here and it's wearing me out! There are 8 kids and 3 adults living here and it's all still new so the kids are like little wild people. So far we haven't really set up any rules or bedtimes or cleaning schedules. I know it's going to get better soon and even if it doesn't, they are leaving in August and we will all be really sad.

The house is such a mess all the time and there is always a baby or toddler crying. The TV is on all the time and no one ever closes the door when they go outside. We have to do 3 or 4 loads of laundry a day and run the dishwasher at least twice. Getting ready to go anywhere in the morning is like trying to corral cats. It's insanity!

So....whenever you think you are having a rough day, just be glad you don't have eight crazy, excited kids all yelling and fighting and playing all the time!

Oh yeah, the kids ages are 9, 9, 6, 2, 1, 3 months, 3 months, and 2 months. I guess I am having a little bit of fun.

 

:acute: And here I thought you really were having STTN problems, not tons of fun with your visitors! :hug99:

Hope you all have a great time! How long are your friends visiting (will they be there for all of August)? Sounds like a lot of fun with all those people. It also sounds a little crazy - but more fun! I hope you can get the craziness sorted out soon. Any visit to England in your future?

 

That does sound exhausting! I hope you are all having fun though. Hopefully you'll all fall into a pattern that works well for everyone soon :hug99: .

 

:wacko: I hope you get to relax soon! :hug99:

 

Wow. I dont think I would stay sane in that situation. I would get with my friend and set up some kind of schedule. Just buy a piece of poster board and put it on that and post in kitchen or something. Kids do much better on a schedule. I used to be against a schedule. But I have finually realized they work. I hope everything gets better for you so you and your friend can enjoy the rest of the visit. Take care.

 

I would get together with my friend and talk things through. Set some ground rules and maybe a bedtime. I think I would go insane! Good luck with the rest of the summer!

 

QUOTE(EmilyM @ Jun 20 2008, 04:26 AM) [snapback]836291[/snapback]
:acute: And here I thought you really were having STTN problems, not tons of fun with your visitors! :hug99:

Hope you all have a great time! How long are your friends visiting (will they be there for all of August)? Sounds like a lot of fun with all those people. It also sounds a little crazy - but more fun! I hope you can get the craziness sorted out soon. Any visit to England in your future?


They will be here until the end of August. I wish I could go to England, but I can't really afford it and finding a babysitter would be a nightmare. We were supposed to go this March, but that was before we ever even imagined having another baby, let alone twins. By the time I can afford it again they should be stationed in the US.

I think this weekend I will get some sort of schedule going. A bedtime at least. I'm not sure how much more the kids can take.!

 

My girls have been sttn since Monday and I am MORE TIRED this week than I have been in a long time!! I could seriously fall asleep standing up! Getting 7hrs of straight sleep is totally messing me up!!
I couldnt imagine dealing with people too!!

 

put the kids to bed and sneak out when someone else is there that can watch them.

 

QUOTE(Bernice @ Jun 20 2008, 05:55 PM) [snapback]837616[/snapback]
put the kids to bed and sneak out when someone else is there that can watch them.


That sounds like a plan. Unfortunately whoever watched them would have to be a wet nurse! Or two.

 

WOW! Full house. A schedule sounds like a very necessary plan! It will (hopefully) bring a little more sanity into the house, and allow all of you to enjoy yourselves a bit more (not that you're not enjoying it already, just with more order). I grew up in a full house (6 girls and my cousin), and your description sounds very much like the house I grew up in, so I understand the level of insanity- LOL!