Trying to list stressors

[ailbhe]

Today has been incredibly bad, from a mental health point of view.

Factors:

• Going away for a weekend with family, packing and cleaning in preparation for this, and other associated stresses


• The mess of the house


• Trying to manage meals, especially dinners


• PMS


• Financial issues - needing Rob to do the insurance claim for my missing phone, needing Rob to help sort out our mortgage insurance, because I can't do these things on my own, according to the companies involved


• Not painting as much as I ought, due largely to mess and dinner-related chaos


• Not getting to see adults enough, because when I DO have time, I'm too exhausted


• Not eating properly, because we haven't worked out how to stop snack foods being found, opened, and abandoned by the kids, so we don't buy them any more

Probably others. Boo.

Comments

[ai731.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose there's any kind of snack food that you like that the kids don't like? Or maybe they would find, open & abandon it anyway, even if it was something they didn't like...

Can you drink those malt-type drinks (eg. Ovaltine)? Would they help?

I'm focussing on a solution to the food problem, because if you can solve that one, the other stressors will be much easier to handle... Is there some sort of non-dairy yoghurt substitute that you can eat?

Thinking some more...

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

I could come and be an adult at you for a while on Thursday or Friday mornings, if that would be any help? I can't tomorrow unfortunately as I have to get into town for a couple of things.

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

The girls know that anything on top of the fridge is out of bounds (it used to be that they couldn't reach, now they can with the kitchen stool) They have to ask permission. It also has extra bottles of things we use a lot of like ketchup (them) & salad cream (me) Currently it seems to have easter eggs, meringue nests, ringtons ginger biscuits & spare bottles.

[heraldis.livejournal.com]

With the whole snackfood thing, what would you say to another mum who said to you "I don't get to eat properly, because my children take food without asking then don't eat it" ?
My first thought is you get a box of some sort and label it "mums food" and make it completely forbidden to have anything out of it without you giving it to them.
The fact that you are breastfeeding is enough of a reason that there is food you have which they can't have, maybe? Or that they don't get free access to snacks if they can't eat them properly?


ETA OR have a container each, with rationed snacks, and everyone gets their own and no-one elses..
Mess I have no idea, my house is a tip right now :/

[ailbhe]

Hm, maybe that would work; they don't go into my stuff. It's the stuff they are allowed sometimes that they mistreat, not my personal stash. So I'll try that.