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Jax Blunt
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To hold it together. Have just been reduced to tears by a duvet cover. Tigerboy threw up on the one on the bed, and somehow the duvet got twisted as I tried to put the new one on and I just stood there in tears.

It’s late. I’m tired. The muscle I’d pulled yesterday is still hurting me. My children are wide awake and I’m not.

I saw my parents this weekend. And I realised something. I don’t know how it works for everyone else, but I seem to have missed the bit where someone whispers the secret to adulthood. There was a time when I worked for the bank when I thought I’d got to grips with it all, but it seems to have slipped away from me.

I’m too tired to make sense tonight.

Defeated by a blogpost as well as a duvet cover.

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7 responses to “Failing”

  1. Natasha avatar
    Natasha

    It happens lovely, get some sleep xxx

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  2. Hannah avatar
    Hannah

    Makes sense to me. This was exactly how I was feeling last week when my 3 year old was sick in his bed, then on the stairs, then in my bed several times through the night. We went through a lot of bedding. And I cried. Hope Tigerboy gets better quickly, you get some sleep and everything seems better in the morning. Hugs xxxx

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  3. Carol avatar
    Carol

    ((((hugs)))) tiredness makes everything impossible.

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  4. Midlife Singlemum avatar
    Midlife Singlemum

    There are days like this… for all of us. Ride it out, grab sleep when you can, and wait for it to pass.

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  5. Mum in Meltdown avatar
    Mum in Meltdown

    We all have down periods like this ………..grab some rest when you can and grab a chocolate treat for yourself. Welcome to the world of normal- your definitely not on your own 🙂

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  6. Anne-Marie avatar
    Anne-Marie

    I’m starting to accept the fact that I am never going to be a proper adult, whatever that is. When I was younger I thought my mum knew the answer to everything, and that I’d somehow get all that when I ‘grew up’. Now I know my mum’s flaws too, but I still don’t know what the secret of being an adult is. I regularly cry at duvet covers (they are evil), crushed cakes (today, short and boring story), any kind of vomit (yuck), and all sorts of utterly irrelevant things. They’re just those tips of icebergs that lay you low. Be easy on yourself, you are fricking amazing, and try to remember: “this too will pass”. xx

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  7. Leoarna avatar
    Leoarna

    I’m now thinking there must have been a bad vibe in the blogosphere today hun, as I have had a pig of a day and have felt that I must be the most unutterably crappy mother for 99% of it. Driving back from the supermarket having managed a 4 year old meltdwon very badly I had tears rolling down my cheeks. Then it occurred to me that if another mother described to me the day I was having as representative of theirs, I would be highly sympathetic and able to help them creatively problem-solve. The conundrum remains that we don’t do for ourselves what we so easily do for others. Go easy on yourself – and I’ll try and do the same x

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