Wife is away this weekend. Three kids by myself.
An insane amount of work to do. I was up until 1am doing work and will be doing the same each night until my wife returns. Not enough coffee.
Wife is away this weekend. Three kids by myself.
An insane amount of work to do. I was up until 1am doing work and will be doing the same each night until my wife returns. Not enough coffee.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote:
You are doing it wrong. Put the kids to work.
In reply to Sine_Qua_Non:
I'm sure a 7 year old could come up with a better strategy white paper than I.
Up your game to crack or meth. Coffee is amature hour
I've heard Benadryl will slow them down.
Unless they are add. Then it hypes them up.
And cocaine. Only reasonable answer. If you do too much, whiskey will help you taper it off.
Call in some reinforcements. I really don't think you can wrangle the kids all day and then pull mental work all night. By the end I expect you will be no good at any of it. I'd try to seek some babysitting or general relief now before it all comes to a boil-over point.
Buy a bottle of No Doz tablets. 200 mg of caffeine per tablet will really perk you up.
I'm with you. My wife is gone. FOUR kids. Two soccer games this morning. Getting the rallycross car ready after they go to bed. Need to clean the house top to bottom because my mother in law is coming back with my wife so I can leave for the week. Septic pump didn't turn on this morning, I assume because the extension cord got soaked (and is compromised somehow) in the two inches of rain we got last night. Somehow it's working again. Thank God. Still need to run to HD and pick up four more feet of trim, paint it, install it, and clean up by noon tomorrow.
Somehow the children have become the smallest issue I have. I must be a spectacular parent.
In reply to G_Body_Man:
And cause palpitations. Tremors and jitteriness. Pass on the caffeine pills.
Farm out some kid duties, get some rest, don't burn out or start to feel overwhelmed. Nothing good happens when you don't take care of you.
"Go play outside"
Brian wrote: "Go play outside"
That phrase is the one of th main reasons I want to move out of the city of Seattle. "Go play outside" turns into. "Stay away from the druggies panhandlers, homeless, and hipsters. "
In reply to mazdeuce:
Yeah. My wife wanted another kid. Luckily we got smart and went to dr. Snip before that happened. That last one nearly killed us b
In reply to Fueled by Caffeine:
"If you kids get approached by a hipster you can ask a druggie for help."
Wow. I'm the asst coach for my daughter's soccer team; head coach has 6 kids, 5 of which are playing soccer this spring; plus they home school all of them 
. I can't even imagine the organizational skills they must have.
And, yes, see if there's a way to get a sitter for a few hours so you can get your work done.
KyAllroad wrote: In reply to G_Body_Man: And cause palpitations. Tremors and jitteriness. Pass on the caffeine pills.
I guess my joke was a bit too subtle (See OP's username 
)
Helpful hint: when mom is away schedule easy dinners. Kids asked me what dinner was when I was knee deep in the septic hole in the yard. "Hot dogs, make them yourselves." And they did!
Granted, my 12 year old made an amazing batch of brownies with a peanut butter sauce topping while I was at soccer with the little kids, so he could clearly have handled more, but..... OK I'm just bragging at this point while I eat brownies that my kid made.
I just shared this thread with my wife as proof that we, as husband and father, recognize that they, wives and mothers, have talents and abilities that we envy and appreciate, regardless of how little it seems like we care or notice.
To the op: thanks for the reminder.
To the rest of us: mothers day is may 8th. She does not want a challenge car.
Dusterbd13 wrote: She does not want a challenge car.
She does however want a Challenge Minivan!
My wife told me the other day she wants a minivan and to go on a vacation.
This gives me an idea...
Dusterbd13 wrote: I just shared this thread with my wife as proof that we, as husband and father, recognize that they, wives and mothers, have talents and abilities that we envy and appreciate, regardless of how little it seems like we care or notice. To the op: thanks for the reminder. To the rest of us: mothers day is may 8th. She does not want a challenge car.
Nope, she just wants the divorce to be final.
just remember, if you need to hide bodies.. Margie has a lot of suggestions on how to make your patio bigger
I've always heard the second page of search results is the best place to hide something.
Where do I hide their bodies
Then I 'ere the best thing to do is to feed 'em to pigs.
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