OT whine

Kalera,

I am SO there with you. 8 months with the longest 'for me' stretch being a paltry 2 hours. I love the kiddo, but I long for my own space, too.

Kalera, that's not pathetic at ALL. Its a very reasonable set of requests, actually....

hey are you using a PVC cutter? we built a whole show booth and rackage out of PVC before I discovered that sucker exists. WAY easier on your hands than the darn coping saw!!!!! Sarajane

Sarajane's Polymer Clay Gallery

That sounds like a heavenly kind of day. No fireworks.. just one of those days that feels ... good. Plain, old fashioned, satisfying. Im not sure why it is you cant have this day you long for... Diana, hoping you get one anyway

Oh Kalera, I'm right there with you. My little Aiden is only 2 1/2 months old, but I long for a day to myself. I love him to pieces, but I really could use some "me" time. It's pretty much impossible since I'm breastfeeding and most of the time my hubby tries to give him a bottle, he fights it and barely eats anything. He just prefers his momma, which isn't a bad thing. It just makes it pretty difficult to get much time to myself. Plus, he's been sick off and on since the bead show, so things have been extra hard.

Maybe, you and I could arrange to get together for lunch or something sometime soon and talk glass. We deserve a little time away to recharge and talking about glass and beads with someone really does the trick for me. Are you game????

(((hugs))) Paulette

I want one. whole. day. Just for me.

{{{hugs}}}

I would shrivel up and die if I didn't get one every now and then. I hope you're able to get one soon!

-- Margie

Good luck. I'm still waiting for one... 18+ years and counting.... And the ones in the 30 years before that were few and far between. And before THAT time... I was my stay-at-home mama's responsibility.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Kalera -- I am all out of whining right now, so I am not going to commiserate, only send you love and hugs.

(((((((((((((((((((((((Kalera)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

Ohhhh that would be great! Being a grownup and talking grownup talk

-*shop* talk even- with another grownup sounds like a dream!

DUDE! PVC cutter???

Oh, that's funny! You don't want to know how many 12" pieces of PVC I've cut with a saw so far...

I think that sometimes the world forgets that moms are people too. Seriously. We're funny, eccentric, creative, interesting people who do things other than produce food and wipe bottoms. I used to be a poet. I used to stay up all night and drink tequila and smoke unfiltered Camels until dawn. I don't really want to do that right now because I've developed some common sense, but that person is still in here, under the spit-up stains.

I *love* my babies. I also love myself and am having a hard time expressing myself as anything but mom/homemaker/wife right now.

HOWEVER, my wonderful DH has informed me that I am to go away for a couple of hours tonight and play with my friends, sooo I am grateful for what I get. :) It will tide me over until the baby is weaned and I can have that whole day I so long for.

((((((((((((((((((((Becki)))))))))))))))))))

Thank you!

It never ends, does it? LOL I guess I knew this before I went and got myself into this...

Thank you! I get two hours tonight, so I'm going to take what I can get and be grateful!

In about six months I can have a whole day. I can make it that long. (I keep telling myself...)

LOL! We need a website.

Two words: breastfeeding baby!

It's the plainness I long for, and the simplicity. Just me and some stuff to fool around with. No pressure. No... responsibility. Just for a day. (Just a tiny vacation from responsibility so I can jump back into it refreshed.)

Not this fall, I guess, but next fall. I feel better already, just from you guys listening to me.

I do understand... ohhh yes.. the days without the baby... not better, just a different sort of good. Hugs Diana

Nope. And I knew, or should have (as oldest of 8, and part-time mama growing up).

And don't expect time off when they are "old enough to reason with"-- a "terrible two" having a tantrum is nothing compared to a "terrible teen" having a tantrum.... At least you can pick up and remove a two year old from where s/he is drumming heels on the floor and screaming (at the cost of getting a few kicks perhaps), but that's almost impossible to do with a kid that's bigger than you are.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on