Home move with kids and pregnant
I feel just really crap and have a whirlwind of a mix of different emotions. I feel exhausted because I am almost in my third trimester and the kids are home and not at nursery - and that between boxes and chaos and disorder. I feel stressed because there is so many daily things to get through just to get through the day like at first I could barely unpack one box in a few days at all because I was just busy with the normal demands of having two little ones (3 and 2 yrs old). I feel depressed because the infatuation with moving from our small flat into a bigger house has worn off quickly after we finally realised how much work this house needs - from a dysfunctional heating and boiler system to replacung the disgusting kitchen and all the floors from start to finish to the unpacking and aesthetics. I also feel an overwhelming sense of guilt of what I am putting my little kids and my unborn baby through. Off term is supposed to be a time of reconnection with the family, of going out and spending time together and more often than not they experience me on edge, impatient and weak. Almost every day there are numerous spontaneous moments where I just feel like breaking down and crying and I feel like I can't even share this with my husband because for some reason he takes it the way that I don't see what he is doing to help move the things forward and that I am ungrateful but it has nothing to do with him at all. I just feel crapðŸ˜
I also feel so horrible for snapping at my toddlers for little things like my youngest complaining about the spaghetti being too long but she just doesn't know that I am terrified by the amount of dirty dishes I can't seem to get through because now I am left without a dishwasher. Or my older not falling asleep for the night for ages and he doesn't realise I have lots of emails and calls to respond to still and I can't do these things while they are awake. Or my unborn baby kicking a lot in the night and not letting me sleep, all these things which are usually fine and even beautiful or funny can bring me so quickly to tears and crying nowadays....
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My first instinct is to say get paper plates in for now, honestly you have so much going on you don’t need to be washing up.
You’re rightly overwhelmed, moving house is one of the most stressful life experiences and you’re doing it with two smalls and a million raging hormones!
Your kids won’t even remember this time in their lives. Try and take some time away from the house to just breath. Even just a walk around the local park xx
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