This weekend has been …….. well a bit crap really! It hasn’t helped that all four of us have been feeling a bit tired and therefore this has made us all a bit more grumpy than usual!
Here is a breakdown of my crap/grumpy/fraught weekend that was, as I feel my blog is a place I can sound off and let it all out 🙂
Friday Night
We have been experiencing problems with our central heating in that we had no heating for almost a week (brrrr!). On Thursday night we had a plumber come out to replace a part and all that night and most of Friday we had a warm house and it was lovely. However, after tea on Friday suddenly there was a problem with our hot water and we didn’t have any, plus a leak in the airing cupboard which meant that the boiler had to be switched off!! Luckily because one of my best friends is married to a plumber we did get a visit after 7pm to have it looked at.
Meanwhile I was trying to get Jenson to sleep. As some of you may now from my recent tweeting, during the last two weeks I have had problems getting him to go to sleep in his cot. I am hoping it’s a phase, he may even be teething, but on Friday night it took ages! I put him down the first time at about 8.30pm after an hour and a half of nursing him – I don’t even think he was feeding he was just using me as a soother! I just get downstairs to make a cup of tea and I heard him crying through the baby monitor! By the time I made the tea I went back upstairs to check on him and he had been sick in his cot, and his head and face was covered in it – if it wasnt for the fact that I needed to remove the vomit from his little sad face, I would have taken a photo because it was mighty impressive really how much he was covered! Plus he was also sick on the floor, me and his sleeping bag! *sighs*. So my immediate thought was omg we don’t have any hot water! But luckily this had been fixed while I had been upstairs nursing, so I was able to bath him, wash the floor, change his bed clothes and try again at getting him to sleep which still took another hour!!
The only consolation about it all was that Jenson did sleep though then from 10.30-6.45!!
Saturday
Ok I have to admit to feeling a tad grumpy Saturday – just want to put this out there before I continue!! Probably from being tired as I stupidly stayed up til 1am Friday night!
Now many of you will know from previous posts about housework that I have a love / hate relationship with it – I hate seeing my home get too untidy and love to see it looking all clean and tidy but I hate doing housework!! Also I have days when I accept that it needs a little clean up but I think it doesn’t matter because I will get round to it soon. But then I have days like Saturday, when I just cannot stand seeing it and have to clean it and clean it NOW!! On top of this because of the time it had taken to get Jenson to sleep the night before, I wasn’t able to complete my on line shopping order and had to cancel it, which was meant to have been delivered in the morning, so once I managed to get him to take his morning nap I then had to dash off and get some groceries.
When I returned home there were toys all over the floor downstairs, which is nothing new as its a regular occurrence. However, it got to me more than normal because I was thinking in the back of my mind that I needed to somehow get the the housework done, and more toys out meant one more thing that needed tidying up! I know daft because the toys come out every day and every night they get put away again.
So I got lunch out of the way and I admit that I was probably being a bit OTT with my sighs and groans because my way of looking at things at the weekend is this:
* if we all go out and do something then I don’t worry as much about my cleaning because we are out of the house doing something as a family.
* however, if we stay in then it really bugs me because I just want to be getting on with it!
Anyway in the end OH took Burton swimming and to see his parents, so I put Jenson down for a nap (which he refused but did stay in cot for an hour grumbling) and I was at least able to clean the bathroom, lounge and sort some washing out!
At bedtime it took me two hours to get Jenson down for the night, so a slight improvement! However, when I went to sit Burton on the potty at 12.30am , which I always do before I go to bed, typically for the first time since I have been doing this Burton decided to wake up and I couldn’t get him back to sleep! Eventually after some messing around I got him back into bed by 1am! I got upstairs and then Jenson awoke for his next feed/using my nipples to help soothe him back to sleep! I got him back into his cot and had to pop to the bathroom and when I went past Burton’s room, he was stood at his door smiling at me! Yikes! He was still awake! Despite my best endeavours to get him into bed he kept asking to go upstairs to my room. In the end, because I needed to get some sleep, I said he could come upstairs to my bed as long as he promised not to wake Jenson up. He kept his word and fell asleep after about 10 minutes. I followed soon after.
Problem with a toddler in your bed in between you and his Daddy, you get rolled on to as Burton is a bit of a fidget. So by 4.45am I carried him back to his bed. He still woke up at 7.15am with his “wee mummy” – meaning Mummy I need a wee!
Sunday
So today although still cream crackered, I was not as grumpy today, but sadly the other members of my family were, well to be fair not Jenson. My OH and I decided that we would photograph the boys today for our Christmas card, as I had bought their snowmen outfits ready for their photo shoot. Before we started taking the photos, both his daddy and I explained to Burton what we were doing and why and told him that if he sat with Jenson and smiled at the camera we would take him to the local soft play centre after lunch as a good boy treat. He understood and agreed. I repeat he agreed!
Except when it came to it, he smiled for about the first 5 minutes and then started removing parts of his costume and lying down and looking miserable. Despite really trying to ask him as calmly as we could to just sit back down and smile he wouldn’t and he didn’t! It all ended after about 15 minutes, even though Jenson sat happily smiling occasionally, when me and OH started getting stressed with each over of it! He has said that he won’t be doing it again next year! We haven’t even got this years done yet – we are going to give it another go tomorrow night but I am not holding out much hope.
So anyway, this little episode put 3 of us in an even more grumpy mood!! And the day just carried on like this really – we did at least manage a walk to the park where Jenson had his first ride on a swing and he laughed a lot.
It just feels like we didn’t really do much and almost wasted our (family) weekend together. It cant be helped, I mean you cant expect to have an amazing time every weekend can you? Not that we do as we often don’t do much in my opinion. The problem is I am indoors quite a bit during the week so at the weekend I want to get out and about, whereas the OH works hard (and i don’t??!) and likes to laze around more at the weekend and isn’t bothered about going out and doing things!
Anyway, I think our time together this weekend can be best summed up by the comment my OH made this afternoon – that he can’t wait to return back to work in the morning!!
Not good – I wish I could press rewind and start again from Saturday morning.
Not good – I wish I could press rewind and start again from Saturday morning.
DAY 20
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Thank you xx
Thank you xx
We always had that debate, I always wanted to go out as a family on the weekend but Aaron was fed up withbeing out the house all week and wanted to stay in. I wanted to go and explore and get out but not on my own with a non-walking baby. Oh well, we don’t have the problem now he’s not got a job!
Hope you have a better weekend next time – and maybe give up on the christmas cards 😉
Found you through Tea and Sympathy. I can’t provide the tea but you have my sympathy. 🙂
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!!!!!’!!!!!!!!! I just left the longest comment and it completely disappeared. So annoying when that happens.
So with you on all of this. You seem to describe my life. Were having problems with grumpiness at the weekends too and not getting anything done. I’m always desperate to go out and avoid the housework but thenitnever gets done so it builds up.
I so want to see pics of the boys in their snowmen suits now. I hope it works out. We tried to get five children to wear penguin hats in the summer and it all went wrong. Everyone was grumpy by the end of it.