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I've worked every day for the past three weeks because my deadlines got cut by 20%, my DH took a job without really consulting me, i have to find daycare for my kid because DH was watching her, I don't have time to workout, I'm so stressed I can't sleep, and I have to go to a fancy ass seminar this weekend and I don't fit into any of my prepreg clothes so I have to wear maternity dresses

@Danizaur: sorry about your grandma and T.

I'm having a mid life career crisis and am anxious about ttc for and adding a second baby, but that's about it. It feels like small potatoes compared to other people's problems, though!

My legs are ridiculously sore. It hurts to move!
I don't want to clean the kitchen.

@blackbird: jinx.

Midlife career crisis. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
I don't know if/when I want another baby. DH wants one like, NOW.
I still have, oh, 20 pounds to lose before the weight on my drivers license is the truth again.

I'm punching circles for a mobile and downstairs keeps banging on their ceiling/our floor.

It's 9:30! Calm your tits! And if my toddler can sleep through whatever noise is bothering you, you are TOO EFFING SENSITIVE.

(Also? It's not like they're monks either. They play their music so loudly during the day I can clearly hear lyrics through the floor.) so. aggravating.

@grizz: you know, if you move to New York, weight doesn't go on our driver licenses (thank goodness!).

My grandfather is not doing well.
My great aunt is not doing well.
I need the morning sickness nausea and food aversions to go away.
I need my toe to heal so I can exercise.
I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. Can I go back to college now? Who wants to pay for it?

We move on Saturday and I haven't started packing yet.
I can't get motivated to start packing.
Lo has been sick with croup so it's been a rough week
My house is a mess and don't have the energy to clean it right now
I don't feel like cooking tonight.

LO broke out in a rash Saturday night and was up till 3 am.
Took him to urgent care Sunday and doc said allergic reaction
Went to my ILs sunday night where his 16 month old and 4 month old cousin were.
Took LO back to the doc Monday and found out it was hand foot mouth.

I feel like a huge asshole for exposing his cousins and I'm extra pissed at the urgent care.

I need this tonight.

Horrible mixup with my freelance writing gig means I am not getting paid this period for the work I did at the effing beach on vacation. Also, the vacation was not cheap, so we are seriously strapped for cash until my husband's paycheck next Friday.

I woke up all excited and motivated today (before learning about the paycheck!) to finally paint J's room. Picked out Benjamin Moore Sea Haze. Did double cutting in and double rolling coats. It looks horrendous tonight - very dark and not at all what I wanted. I'm hoping it either morphs into something lovely in the daylight or it grows on me.

Also, I'm pregnant, and my back is now killing me from the 6 hours of painting.

My husband didn't appreciate the paint job because he's freaking out about my missing paycheck. And he has a job interview out of town on Friday, and a big deadline before he leaves at work, and is just a tornado of stress right now.

I can't even have wine (see: pregnant). FML.

Gah sorry you're having a tough time

I'm stressed about LO's eating. She's 9 weeks old and we still haven't figured out any consistent way to make feeding her not a huge battle.

I'm stressed about finding another job. Lost mine 3 days before I had LO and haven't really done much towards finding another one because I don't know what I want to do or where to look or how to find another one and it feels like I don't have time to look anyways because I'm home alone with LO all the time because....

My husband's job is really busy right now and he's also in night school for his MBA and doing all these group projects so in addition to a full time(+) job he's gone 2 nights/week for class and then meets with his group another 1-2x/week so I feel like I"m alone. All the time. All. The. Time.

Also I wish it wasn't so effing hot out so I could get out with LO a bit more.

I spent the entire day trying to entertain a toddler in one floor of our house without making a mess, with the movers packing up our basement & a house showing in the afternoon.

I'm 8w preg and freaking exhausted.

LO's sleep sucks, he's cutting a second canine, and we're both grumpy.

I'm terrified for the next week of more packing, less freedom, and more chaos until we're in our new house on Tuesday... where I have no idea how LO will react!

I'm afraid we're ruining LO's appetite/habits because we're eating really predictable, easy foods and will be eating out for 4 days in a row.

Boo.

@erinpye: I'm now afraid of weed whackers AND my impending toddler/newborn combo

I've been ttc for a year, and I don't have a sticky baby. I need to make a dr appt, and I'm not sure how much we can afford in terms of treatment. It's just so expensive and emotionally costly for something that seems to come to others so easily (this is a judgement free thread, right?). I'm coming up on my EDD from the miscarriage, and I'm so sad.

I have been trying to eat better, but it's such a challenge with my long work days. I need to lose weight desperately and am having a hard time with motivation. DH also needs to lose weight, but I can't make him want it.

I am exhausted and just can't sleep.

DH is having some work related issues. I also have some work related things going on.

All my things are so superficial compared to some of these things. Hugs to everyone that needs them.

I didn't realize until I started typing this out how much I need to get this stuff off my chest, as trivial/superficial as some of it may sound.

I am so much more tired this pregnancy, and I'm having serious guilt about the fact that I haven't even finished cleaning out the room that is going to be the nursery.

My mom keeps saying she'll help with L for a couple of days so that I can get the nursery cleaned out and actually start getting it ready, but it never happens - she's on summer vacation but is constantly committing herself to other things.

I wish we could do a babymoon this pregnancy, but DH's dad won't give him the time off work.

I'm so sick of throwing up. Pregnancy and my body really don't agree with each other.

My 14 month old is still nowhere near walking, and I'm terrified I'm still going to be carrying him around everywhere when the new baby is born.

I've been a pretty shitty wife lately, I'm too nauseous to cook, too tired to have sex, don't even want to be touched most of the time, etc.

Then there's the two that sound the worst - 1. I am sick of being a SAHM. I know there are many women who wish they could do it, but I'm just struggling with it, and I don't want to go back to work until I finish my degree so that I can make enough money for it to be worth the cost of day care. Going back to school in January, and I can't wait - I so miss the intellectual conversations. 2. I'm still struggling with gender disappointment. I just feel surrounded by people having little girls and it still deeply hurts to think that I'll most likely never have a daughter.

@sandy: I'm miserable with mosquito bites too and the heat is killing me!!!
My uncle and grandfather both died in the past two months and I was very close to both of them. Had to fly directly to meet DH at vacation because of the funeral this weekend. I'm emotionally drained.
LO is teething molars and is GRUMPY!
DH had lots of work stress and is also grumpy.
I have a sudden case of acne.
I've been having lots of random anxiety about minor health issues.

Yup good to get it out. @Danizaur: good idea!

Ummm okay, less bad but...

DH ate my chocolate stash. It's like he's pmsing!

But it's probably for the best because I seem to be stuck in my weight loss... I can't budge the scale.

- There's a mountain of laundry that's yet to be washed.
- DH is stressed out about his lawnmower! He just sharpened the blade (it should now run better than new) but the safety attachment broke and he can't figure out how to fix it. He's literally losing sleep over the status of our slowly growing grass!
- DD hates having her teeth brushed. It's like torture every single time and it's only getting worse.
- If I spent the same amount of time looking for household decorations as I do with gifts, my walls wouldn't be so bare.
- I didn't get an acknowledgment from 2 out of 3 grads I sent gifts to. The one message I did get was sent weeks after it was received. Entitled little &#&¤/! At least say it arrived!

@spaniellove: I feel the same way in regards to being alone so much. so greatful that dh's job is good enough that I don't have to return to work, but I am having so much trouble getting used to this loneliness.. Don't really have mommy friends and those I do have are returning to work or don't live close and I am more the shy type so I'm worried that once I am able to go out with A that I won't be assertive enough about making new friends. Argh..

Thank you for a complain thread! First off: Love and hugs everyone....

Since LO was born, I couldn't adjust my family life with work life
LO is already 2.5 years (!), and I am still struggling
My career mostly died because of that
I feel so inefficient and incompetent
Especially when most working moms do it with no problems
What the heck is wrong with me???
Have been taking time off to explore a new career path, but it is not going as well as I hoped
Sent out several emails since last week and received no response
Huge blow to self esteem
We have 0 babysitters.
We haven't had a date night forever.
We haven't traveled anywhere for vacation this year for real
I am really tired
I am tired of being tired
Which leads me to feeling inefficient and incompetent
and maybe DH was right all along, that I don't have what it takes to be a mother.