I just picked up volume 38, wondering who else is keeping up with picking up each new volume. :o so far it's my longest series to collect physical copies for but I do have completed series that are much shorter.
A little nervous, taking the 2 day course next weekend and I'm a little nervous about maybe being the only woman there 😅
I have two kids - a toddler and a 8m old. My 8m takes two naps a day so I get a little "break" (if you even want to call it that lol) while my toddler very seldom takes a nap anymore. So, usually after I put the little one to sleep, it's just me and my toddler who is very, very attached to my hip. I don't get the luxury of silence to where I could think for most of the day, and my baby still wakes up several times a night. Safe to say I'm a zombie most of the day and it absolutely feels like a drag responding to messages from friends and family, especially when I have to think hard about my response and I constantly have a toddler (like now as I'm typing this) pining for my full attention, it sucks and I feel mentally tapped out sometimes. We went outside in the backyard to color with chalk, pick weeds, blew bubbles and still I cannot have a moment of silence interrupted. It makes me not want to talk to anybody anymore, but I'm curious if anyone else is going through this. It just kinda sucks.
Just venting, I love my 2.5yr old to bits, she is my first baby and I also have an 8 month old son. My baby is super chill, easy to soothe. The only hard time I have with him is that he does tend to wake up a lot at night (maybe teething or regression related) but my toddler at least sleeps through the night. She is just very very very clingy during the day, very chatty, babbles a ton, stomps around the house a lot and just constantly needs my attention. She is incredibly smart and very thoughtful and I adore her but I just crave some time alone or at least to not be talked to, touched, needed etc when the baby is napping. Sometimes I get lucky and I'm able to convince her to take a nap but for the most part she doesn't take em anymore. I'm just exhausted, I absolutely need time alone/ quiet time and it's almost impossible to have it. I feel like a zombie some days just dragging my feet hoping to make it to when they both sleep at night. My brain is fried. (She starts daycare on the 26th and I feel like I'm counting down the days lol). Also, we don't have any family or friends that could watch them, and I'm a SAHM.
So last Sunday I ripped the bandaid off with potty training and tried the naked method where my 2.5yr didn't wear anything from the waist down for a day. She hated it at first and made a couple puddles but once she did pee in the training potty she knew where to go. Throughout this week she's been doing very good, she still uses a pull up but when I ask if she wants to go pee she happily goes to the potty. So far I've gotten her to poop twice in it which is great! Today however she almost seems like she's treating it like a game, we'll leave the door open or closed and she'll go what feels like every 5 minutes peeing from small amounts to big amounts. Tried the naked method (and she'll only be comfortable with me , her mom. She literally closed the bathroom door on her dad lmao). But she wont hold her pee. She was doing underwear earlier but soaked all of em so she's wearing a pull up (and still walks herself to the bathroom). Struggling with this since I also have a 6m old and I'm being constantly led to the bathroom by my toddler. What to do?
Edit - I literally just sat down on the couch after helping her with the potty and she opened the bathroom door and comes over here with toilet paper on her bottom omgggg 😭 😂
I expected this but ever since we brought our new baby home, our toddler has been much more short fused than ever. She thankfully never takes out her frustration or anger on him but it's everyone else, especially me as her mom, who gets the worst of it. I do try to actively spend time with her 1 on 1 to try to lessen the meltdowns, but when Dad is at work and it's just her, her little brother, our cat and me she tends to act out the most. It's to where I feel resentment over her, like I'll be changing his dapier and somehow that offends her so much that she starts hitting me. She got upset while we were playing in our play area. She swats at me while I try to change her daipier (she refuses potty training and I don't want to piss her more off by trying right now). I don't know what else to do, I hate that she gets this way, it's nearly every day that she has a meltdown and sometimes I don't want to deal with her. I hate that I feel this way about her, when it was just her and I she wouldn't really have any meltdowns now it's almost every day. I'm tired, I lack sleep and I dread waking up some days. I dread hearing the screaming and her hitting me, I feel so tired. If she doesn't take it out on me it's the cat and she (the cat) gets put away. My favorites parts of the day is when she's asleep.