Are you???

I certainly am not and neither are my kids.

First and foremost, my girls hardly ever sleep. EVER. To them, sleeping is for the dead, with all due respect. There is too much to do in their little lives like watching evil aliens conquer their nemesis, farting in simulated helicopters, eating enough junk till they start floating, pretending to be deep sea divers in search of treasure, practicing to be the next Beyonce of Asia, absorbing life’s lessons being forced down their throats, attempting the bicycle without training wheels, screaming the house down upside down, spending late nights talking to shadows and refusing to go anywhere near horizontal and basically just annoying the shit out of their Mom. It’s just WAY too much fun.

So remember my BIG PLAN FOR THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS???

Well, we’ve accomplished perhaps 10% of it and I am so done. The Hubs has also cut our budget by half. So there goes all the fun not that I’m complaining. No, no, no. He can be the bad guy this time.

My typical day has begun at 730am when I quickly feed the kids (if I’m lucky I get to be fed too), get everyone cleaned and ready, bags packed and we’re out the door by 930am latest. We are out all day with meals out most times unless I am bothered to cook and pack their porridge in a flask or we eat at Nana’s, till after dinner when we come home all exhausted. In between they have snacks which I’ve packed. This snack packing is so much work! So much planning involved, it’s almost a science! Gah. The science of bringing up children. Why didn’t anyone write that book for me?

Oh, don’t get me wrong. The kids are still full of beans at 10pm but I am as good as a dirty old rag. I just read that if you’re always exhausted, you could be suffering from OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. *worried look*

On top of fulfilling my obligation in meeting the demands of 2 blood-sucking dracukids, I have other pressing responsibilities…..pressing. Ouch. Ouch. Double ouch. How did I get myself into this mess? I am insane. I must hate my SAHM life so much that I have become self-abusive.

I sleep at 3am. I sleep at 5am. I sleep at 2am. I sleep at 4am. I get no naps. I am out all day. I am up by 730am. EVERY DAY. Why do I do this? I could have just called all the Moms up and said, sorry, I really can’t do this. It is too much for me. But I don’t. Perhaps I miss the strain of being a working Mom? Who knows.

The good for me is that I am SO enjoying my time with T1 because she is really darn frigging hilarious. Really. I am spending all my days with her and the most amazing things come out of her mouth, and if I’d been not so tired and not so frazzled handling TWO VERY ABNORMAL kids in public, I would have written down some of those darndest things she’d said. It’s like having a junior Jennifer Saunders for company and how bloody cool is that? I am blessed. Pure joy.

Of course, with every good, there is the bad or there will not be balance in our lives, true? So every night after an exhausting day and night out, little T1 will be exhausted and turn into a mini witch refusing to brush her teeth, refusing to shower and get into her jammies, refusing to refuse. She is so tired that nothing makes sense. She is just all black with the pointy hat and a broom. This is all my fault, of course. But it is only a 2 week marathon of crazy that we’ve ran so don’t worry. Normal-dom is approaching. I cannot wait.

Ditto with T2 although how she’s making me happy is by eating more although she is still very, very skinny. On top of her new doggy tricks. She is so cute when she shrugs her shoulders or behaves like a mad woman when ordered by shaking her head ala exorcist screaming AaAaAaAaAaA!!!!!!!!!! A bit like an excited Indian Tamil lady too. And the standing on the high chair habit has not been kicked. Any advice?

So no. None of us are getting near enough sleep. But hopefully, things are to change real soon. At least for the kids.

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

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