We are slightly beyond the half way mark of the 2014 summer vacation and…I just may die. DIE. I WANT TO DIE.
I cannot even properly describe what I’m dealing with without whining on and on in this post for hours on end and boring you. To sum it up, I’ve got 4 kids with 4 different personalities and 4 different sets of really effing obnoxious needs. My husband is working quadruple over time, I don’t have a babysitter and I just want to die (not literally, relax cps). With all work and no break makes this mommy a little bit crazy.
My usual “get up and get out of the house” coping mechanism isn’t working this summer like it has so well in the past. Venturing out in the world with these 4 wackos has proven more difficult than I expected. It’s simply too hard managing 4 kids with such wide age gaps. The things that are great for the 7 year old to do – just aren’t so great for the 4 month old. So we’ve been staying home a lot, the kids have gone between watching movies, playing games, having play dates, drawing pictures and fighting. A lot of fighting. Oh and crying. There’s a lot of that too.
There are days that I have relinquished control in order to not have to yell and discipline someone every 5 seconds. On those days the kids are allowed a supervised from a distance-free range-controlled chaos. Usually someone ends up crying but at least I get about 20 minutes of peace and quiet. Just the other day they played “school” upstairs with tables, paper and crayons.
On that day in particular I was gifted several hundred drawings that I will cherish forever.
I was also gifted the opportunity to scrub my daughters drawings off her furniture and walls.
I simply cannot wait for summer vacation to be over.
