Tag Archives: Tiredness

People ask me how I manage it, but evidently, I don’t…

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

Yesterday, I sat at the table and I cried through lunch. Not one of those snotty, bellowing, heart-wrenching cries. No. Silent tears dribbled down my face and plopped into my lap – I was tissue-less. Yesterday, one child after another … Continue reading →

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Things aren’t going swimmingly at the moment…

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

Things aren’t going swimmingly at the moment. The house looks like a bomb went off in it. Yesterday, I was away the whole day. Doctors in the morning. Pick up the littlest kid from Kindergarten and then take said kid, … Continue reading →

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I must have wished upon a star

Posted on May 1, 2012 by

“Please, can you budge a bit? I roll the words of a five-year old around in my head for a few seconds. It takes me a while to make sense of them. Then it clicks. “Ah. Can you budge a … Continue reading →

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I keep thinking…

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

I keep thinking that I should check myself into a hotel for the weekend. That way I would finally be able to read that book I wanted to, without interruption. I would try really hard not to fall asleep on … Continue reading →

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Beware of the bath

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

Last night, after a hard day of tapping the keys fantastic and dropping a child at a birthday party and stuffing my face with pizza, I decided to plough on with my film challenge and snuggled into my husbands shoulder … Continue reading →

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Teenage Woes to Totsy Toes

Posted on October 22, 2011 by

The last few weeks have been particularly tough on me. I seem to have run into a wall of exhaustion, no doubt brought on by the emotional and physical demands of looking after four children and in particular, one with … Continue reading →

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Three in the bed (and the middle one said…)

Posted on October 16, 2011 by

I have spent the night trapped in-between two lovely men. I am exhausted. NO! Not like that! I’m married. One of them was my husband. And the other my had-a-nightmare thus need-a-cuddle son. I lay there. All night. Sandwiched in … Continue reading →

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Night terror

Posted on October 6, 2011 by

I’ve been chased out of my bed by a shitty mosquito. It’s been buzzing around my head, threatening to fulfil its vampire instincts the minute I drop off. I know where it’s planning to leave me with a great big … Continue reading →

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Midnight wanderer

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

The midnight wanderer wakes at night his feet are itchy full of flight He leaves his room abandons bed she hears his footsteps on the stairs She listens to the sounds below unsure, afraid of what he’ll do She tries … Continue reading →

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