How to be a dad.

Step 1: Start your day.

The day starts off with the hardest thing you have to do all day… wake up before everyone and get dressed.

Step 2: Go to work.

But after you get dressed, its nice… you get to go to work!! You get to spend your day being productive, meeting people, making important decisions, changing the world… (at least so it seems to mom at home)

Step 3: Make your way home.

Once you’re done working, you do some errands, (mostly from mom at home, but lets not ponder on that point) then you’re home… at the end of the day.

Step 4: Greet the family.

“Hi wife! Did you brush your hair today?? You really should! You look tired!”

“Hi Kids! Do you want to go play outside? Yeah! Ok! Let’s go… but first I have to go change my clothes. Go stay with mommy, I’ll be right back!”

Step 5: Play with kids.

Next you can go upstairs, use the bathroom, change your clothes, check your email, call your buddy, see whats on TV, and once you hear your wife screaming at you from downstairs, you can come down to play with the kids.

Step 6: Dinner, Bath, Bedtime.

Come in for dinner, help put the kids to bed.

Step 7: Sit, relax, watch TV, play on your computer.

Basically continue what you were doing in step 5 before being called by wife…

And there you go… you are dad.

There is no ‘how to be a mom’ guide… the internet is not big enough!

Ok, so I am a little pissed off upset at hubby… and ‘to blog’ means that I don’t have to pay for therapy!

Disclaimer: Ordinarily, I am pretty fond of hubby… Who is solely responsible for bedtime baths and songs, for doing laundry, and for taking out the garbage. Who does most of the diaper changes when he is at home, who washes dishes most of the time, and who loves his boys. And respect to all dads who are giving fatherhood everything they got! But sometimes, dads can be such ‘men’!

Preschooler on 3 little pigs

5 minutes is not enough!

My battle for some time alone continues…

My husband did try to give me some time alone today. As soon as he came home, he took care of them, and in my 5 minutes alone, I fell asleep! I fell asleep for 5 minutes and then was awaken by screams from downstairs…

I thought that it was best to give them dinner before they started to get hungry… and so ended my first 5 minutes alone.

My kids have a problem with their own room… for some reason they are CONSTANTLY in my room these days… so after we come up from dinner I chased them out of my room and locked the door!

After about 15 minutes they were banging on the door trying to get into the room, although daddy was supposed to be babysitting them. (I think that my husband cannot handle all 3 kids at once)

Sometimes I feel like I am going to explode! Like today. I can handle my kids, but somedays it seems like the insanity never ends… my precious little baby has been crying non stop (at least so it seems) for the past week. Is he teething? I forgot what babies could be like… can a first time mom tell me if this is normal at 5 months?!? Needy. Cranky. Fussy. Screaming. Wants to be held ALL the time! Is it normal?

At least the baby is sleeping now, and so is the preschooler. The toddler is at the foot of my bed digging into my toes. My husband is on his computer too. (looking at some car website!) The dishes are hanging out in the sink.

Just 5 minutes!

Ever feel like just screaming “can I have just 5 minutes”!

I feel like this a lot.

Like the moment I come out of the shower and the kids are already following me around, and I have to hide in the closet trying to get dressed as fast as I can, not even having enough time to put some lotion on my seriously dry skin.

Like when I am trying to eat, holding the baby on my lap, while the kids run around the table.

Like when I wake up because a toddler is poking me and pulling my arms and a baby is crying to be fed.

Like as soon as I woke up this morning, and realized that I had severe back pain, and my husband left me with the 3 kids to go down (to do the laundry, but still…), and then didn’t come back up till after 2 diaper changes, a feeding, a fight, a lecture about sharing toys, punishment threats, new bedding, and kids asking for breakfast.

Just 5 minutes!

You have 3 kids?

For the first time last night we went to an event with all 3 kids and no backup family helpers!

Overall, I would say it was pretty successful… no injuries, nothing lost, and at least their pants remained on for the whole night!

It was the wedding of a friend. I was happy to be able to socialize a little, although the most frequently asked question was… so you have 3 kids?? and how do you manage?? Don’t get me wrong, I was not fed up of it, or mind the questions, but after a while I just did not know what to say and just kinda made facial expressions!

Having 3 kids is difficult, well challenging, but people have much more and they manage, and some people have only 1 and struggle.

My eldest was great, he loved every moment, he ate well, he drank well, he ran well, he spoke to everyone, he had cake at 11:30pm! And when he got in the car at midnight, he asked to watch a movie once he got home! (Of course, that did not happen)

My 2 year old was ok at first, taking a queue from his big brother, I asked him if he wanted his milk and he said “no, big boy!”, and went on eating his samosa. However, as the evening went on, he was less of a “big boy”, and more of a “terrible two” year old. He screamed for we don’t know what (milk), ran from side to side, wanted mummy, no, I mean daddy, no, maybe he just wanted to lie on the floor… There was no end of dramas with him, but overall, he was mostly good and did have fun playing with his brother.

My baby was cranky ALL day… he just wanted me to hold him for the entire day so I was very skeptical about taking him out. He was asleep when we got there, and then when he did open his eyes, he screamed his poor little head off… He was quite a handful…

First time moms would have been really stressed, but as you know I have 3 kids…