Comments on: Weight

By: k

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:44:18 +0000

“This stage if more difficult than the last and it can be suffocating sometimes.”

Yes. Exactly.

I said this exact thing to J last week: “The kids and the constantness of them … it is suffocating.”

That was the night I left the house and went to see a movie alone. Just so that I could have 2 seconds to think.

I spent the first half hour of the movie trying to calm down, the middle hour half-watching, and the last half-hour thinking about going home and everything that needed to be done there.

Like you said, even when you’re “on a break,” you’re not. When we go to bbq’s and stuff, J completely relaxes, but I rarely eat or sit down. It’s not that he’s not helping with the kids, he is. But he can just relax while he does it.

I cannot. Which is no one’s fault but mine.

Good luck to you. It has to get easier sometime soon, right? I have to believe so.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:26:50 +0000

I’m still in infant stage, but still, I relate. There really is no break, no matter what, and it is damn hard. And I guarantee we will look back on these days as wonderful. It’s pure insanity.

By: lisamechelle

lisamechelle — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:51:52 +0000

I wish it was as easy as telling you to take a vacation with friends, but you’d be worrying about them the entire time, along with feeling guilty for feeling the need to get away. I can just tell you as they get older, it gets easier, and you’ll have the *me* time you so deserve. Unfortunately, that’s usually when they enter school, and that’s a few years away. Hang in there, girlfiend. We all feel your pain!

By: Pigs

Pigs — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:19:09 +0000

I’m so with you. Or rather, six weeks or so behind you. Maybe someday we’ll look back and laugh. Should we make a deal to do that? Reassess every year or so and see if we can laugh yet? Via blog entries?