What hands on activities like drawing etc are your kids enjoying?

We just got this play dough set and she’s loving it. I want to buy more things she can enjoy doing sitting at her desk. I tried colouring but I think maybe I didn’t get the right book as she preferred drawing on the table instead 🙃. Which ones have you got that your little ones are enjoying? Please share any other ideas. Thank you

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Nanny

Has anyone ever paid for a nanny to come to your house just to do the morning so you can get a bit of sleep?
My baby wakes 5 am every day, Monday to Sunday, it’s exhausting. When she goes to bed I have to get everything done quickly, sometimes I don’t even eat just so I go to bed early so I can get up with her at 5 am. It’s slowly killing me. I haven’t done anything for myself, watched a movie, or even had a pamper night in months.
I am happy to pay for, just on a Sunday, someone do to a couple of hours with her just so I can have a little relax and chill, my anxiety is at an all time high and I’m just shattered. Is this a thing or am I making up jobs now?? lol.
I have tried everything to make her sleep longer, you name it, I’ve done it. I understand this comes with being a mum, but just every second Sunday just so I can have a bit of me time, just to recharge my batteries…

Would you take your 2/3 week old to a family birthday event?

My husband’s uncle is having a big birthday trip (2-3hrs drive away) for two nights, there will be between 20-40 people, maybe more, and young kids who attend day care (nothing wrong with this but I’m just cautious of the germs around a newborn). I’m heavily leaning towards not going as I’ll probably still be recovering, and together with the drive, germs and numerous family members who don’t give a shit about boundaries feels like a no no. Curious as to what you would do?

He left again

He stayed at mine. Played pretend families. Bounced back to his mums. Zero communication. Zero checking in on the kids. Leaving me lonely. He planned to surprised his kids with something today. Choose to watch the football with his brother. Then chooses to go pub gone 11pm with a fake friend. And I get nothing but declined calls and shit responses. Anyone up to talk? Feeling low.

Struggling SAHM

Anyone else’s partner/ husband come home from work complain about his job and just lays next to you and scrolls through Instagram for hours? Or is it just me? Idk it irritates me so much bc I stay home all day waiting for him and he just does this . Doesn’t really spend any quality time with me I’d be lucky to get a kiss maybe on a good day when everything went well at work . Idk it’s just giving bare minimum to me and I’m just tired of dealing with it but I have no choice rn. It’s just hard dealing with being pregnant taking care of myself all day and I still have to take care of myself when he gets home. Idk makes me feel lonely in the relationship

Caught him sexting.

As the title says. A few years ago when I was pregnant I caught him with onlyfans. He would look a lot but never did more than that. I let him know that I consider that cheating anyways and if he ever did it again then it’s over. And here we are 4 years later. We haven’t been as intimate or passionate lately. I’ve been dealing with my aunt having cancer and a stressful job. I’m also on Zoloft so my sex drive is just way lower than it usually is. But the last few times I noticed he wasn’t staying hard or even finishing. I just thought he was stressed too much. But last night I looked through his phone and found him sexting girls starting November. He kept posting in sexting subreddit where they exchange nudes. And he was sending fake nudes?! As a wife I’m heartbroken. As a woman im pissed he’s catfishing. Then I saw he had onlyfans again and was even messaging with a few girls this time. Even telling a few that his wife wasn’t giving him any lately. Today has just been so weird and I think I’m trying to vent because I don’t have any friends. And I feel like I can’t tell my family. I just feel lost. And I’m heartbroken and I know what I have to do that’s best for me. But we have a 4 year old and we just moved into an apartment literally last week so we still have a 15month lease that I cannot pay by myself. I guess I’m just yelling out to the void.

Advice about boundaries

I want my babies to be better than I ever was so it is just so important to me that they don’t grow up playing on phones or being worried about phones at all, eat healthy, are active, play with toys, use their imagination, blah blah etc. anyone else that also agrees with me, how do yall enforce the no phones? My baby is only 4 months old but obviously he will look at a phone screen if you put it in his face. And my boyfriends family knows how I feel about that and they still do it. Maybe it’s because he’s only 4 months so they think it doesn’t affect him??? Idk. Even if it doesn’t affect him, I want to make it clear now and establish the boundary now so that when he’s older, they know he is not to be on anyone’s phone. I have so many reasons for the no phones rule and it’s just very important to me. How do yall make it clear to family who doesn’t seem to take it seriously?