Does anyone else husband get workers guilt?

It's a very rare condition, you can't fix it, and it's terminal.  Lol it's the dreaded workers guilt.  Husband works so much and isn't here that often for the kids that he buys them everything they want.  It drives me mental I have told him and told him and told him that they don't need all this crap, But he feels so guilty about working so much he gives in Sigh.  It started small a little teddy or some such crap now it's bikes computers, TV's, Xbox games, Computer game credits lollies you name it if the kids want it soon or later they get it.

I can't stop him from doing this I only try to minimise it.  No children number 2 doesn't need more lego at this stage, no child 3 doesn't need more Barbies, No child one doesn't need the newest sims 3 expansion thing.

Shopping for me is a quick get in get what I need and get out, if the kids are with me it's punctured with me telling them NO NO NO NO NO NO.

With Husband along it's sure sure sure sure sure with me going no no no no sigh and I normally lose.  So if you have any tips on how to get it to bloody well stop let me know.

Reading.

I love reading there is nothing more relaxing to me than curling up with a book and reading for hours on end(or til I finish the book whichever comes first).  I have a love of romance novel and classics(eg the anne of green gables series and the little woman series).  But my biggest love is romance novel and it never takes me long to read one.  I fell in love with historical(American history/wild west/cowboys and Indians) at the age of 16 and have been reading them ever since.  I don't know why but I really enjoy the stories and the romance from the days of old.  Some of the new books have women falling in love with guys who are total assholes.  If someone spoke to me like the guys in some of the books spoke to the woman he would get my fist in his face and would never see me again let alone a happily ever after.

The only down side to reading is that I taught myself to speed read which means I can read the books rather fast then I am left with nothing.

I remember out shopping once I grabbed about 7 books to read and headed to the check out the guy serving me comment on that was a good months worth of reading I laughed and said  month?  this will barely last me the week.  He looked so shocked.

I currently own about 500 plus books( I stopped counting) and I have read and re read every single book I own.  Reading is becoming such and expensive hobby because I now have to buy the books overseas because I am looking for books from series I have started or have read about in the back of the books I own.  I am not talking about the 200 page mills and boon books(although I do own a lot of these) I am talking 300 to 500 pages gone in little more than 3 hours.

4 more school days til school holidays.

So it's 4 more days until the kids start school holidays and I don't know if I am excited or dreading it.  Husband will be home for half of the holidays(having decided to take 14 days off work starting on Tuesday) and I can't figure out what to do with the kids while they are on holidays.  Normally here it's raining by this time of year but we are having unseasonably warm weather.  Normally we hole up at home under the heater doing fun stuff but if it's warm they are going to want to go out a lot.

I am hoping for warm weather because 3 house bound children get cabin fever really quickly and then the fights start.  Yelling, screaming and carrying on.  It's enough to send anyone crazy.  However if I have them outside running wild they will burn off energy fast.  Hope for warm weather for me.

YAWN

I am so tired I can barely stay awake.  Thank goodness husband isn't heading off to work tonight and has offered to cook(heaven help me some "new" concoction he has thought up) and all I want to do is sleep.  Child number 2 is a horrible sleeper, well actually that is a lie he is a great sleep once you get him TO SLEEP it's the getting him to sleep that is the problem and has been for about 7 years.

From the time he was about 22 months old he could and would fight sleep, he could stay awake until 2 or 3 in the morning and be up at 8am ready and raring(his only speed) to go.  So I in desperation when he was 3 called the QEII for help and was told that he was to old for them to help.  So here I am with a newborn a 3 year old who won't sleep and a 4 year old going to pre school and I was getting about 3 hours of sleep a night, then on the go all day long.

Every Dr I spoke to told me it was a stage and he would grow out of it, my mum assumed my parental skills were lacking because I couldn't make him sleep so I let her have a crack at it and after 2hours she gave up.  Now that he is 9 I am at my wits end.  I need more sleep, he needs more sleep but I am not sure how to get it for him.  Now I am so tired from just writing this out I think I need a nap.  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I love this time of year.

Ok granted I don't like the weather at this time of year I hate the cold, but so far this autumn hasn't been to bad in fact today got to a lovely hot 27 degrees C.  Normally we are lucky to get over 15 degrees C, so I am loving this.  But what I love so much about this time of year is the fact that day light savings has ENDED.  No more it's not bedtime the sun is still up, no more but it's still morning see(with said child pointing to the fact that the sun is still up) the kids think that as soon as it's dark it's bedtime.  I am so glad I don't live in countries where they have the midnight sun it would drive me crazy my kids would never sleep.

This means I get some peace and quiet at night not a lot but some, I get less arguments about bedtime which is just lovely.  As a kid I loved daylight savings because the fun never ended as a parent I hate it because the fun never ends.

I am the worlds worst mother.

Or so child 3 thinks.  What makes me the worlds worst mother?  I had the audacity to question her as to why she wouldn't do any work yesterday where upon she told me to "shut up you idiot" so as soon as we got home I sent her to her room.  Yep that's it I sent her to her room and told her not to speak to me like that.  That's it and I am up for worlds worst mother.  It wasn't like she was even in her room for long I put her in there until she calmed down which took all of 5 minutes then she was allowed out again.  After she had apologised of course.

I love these little phrases that get thrown out.

You are the world's worst mum
I hate you
You are a mean mummy
and so on and so on.  I have even had a conversation with child 3 once where she was getting into trouble for something and she tells me that we should all be nice and be friends(thanks school) and she was stunned when I told her I don't have to be her friend what I have to be is her mum and we could be friends when she got older.

So later last night you think she would have learnt her lesson right?

WRONG.  I put her into bed and was trying to get her to go to sleep and 3 times she tells me I am stupid then throws me out of her room.  Yes I could have stayed but I didn't want to have to deal with her tantrum(as she was tired) so I left where upon she yelled and screamed for about 10 minutes then promptly fell asleep.

I use to spend so much of my time when they were younger getting them to talk now I wish I hadn't(yes I am kind of joking)

Sigh we have a pet.

So husband wanted a pet asks the landlord they say yes.  So it's all systems go we are getting a pet, in less than 24hours after the landlord said yes we have a pet.  We have a Kitten.

I hate cats they annoy the hell out of me for some reason.  Yet we have a Kitten.  Husband has gone to work for the night and guess who is left to look after this Kitten?  That's right me.

Plus no one liked my name suggestion of "road kill"