I can certainly relate to this post!!! I know you think I am a legend to cope with 5 kids but let me tell you - sometimes it is just that - ‘coping’ and nothing more.
More often than not you can barely see the floor in my house because it is covered with toys, clothes, junk, food etc.
I am usually too tired to do the dishes each evening so leave them to pile up until the next day - then once I have finally completed a couple of loads of dishes (by hand - I WISH we had a dishwasher) it is time to make dinner and start all over again.
My kids whine, complain, fight, whinge, argue etc etc a LOT and the other day when Kris said to the little kids that they needed to help Mummy by being well behaved otherwise she’d cry Nathan said, “No she won’t, she’ll growl”. Oh dear, it is true.

I love my children, I love having 5 children and a busy household but it is really really hard parenting all on your own (which is what you do when you are a Mum at home and Dad goes to work) all day. Dad is tired when he gets home but has no choice but to get on with helping with children.
And it is even harder when you have no family around to help give you a break for an evening or Sunday afternoon so you can have a sleep. Or even watch the baby while you are at a dentist appointment. Or someone to come and help when you are unwell or tired out.

I so often feel very alone during my days. There is nobody for me to call and chat to or invite around. I would love to pop over to a close friend or my sisters house and spend the morning helping her with her housework and dinner prep, and I would love for her to come and do the same at my house - even just having someone there to chat to while I get on with my housework is so encouraging.

I have always loved it so much when you come and stay with us Michelle and we just muck around doing house stuff, and maybe go for a walk or something in the afternoon. I wish we could love close by so we could do that all the time. Do people actually do that do you think? Well, I guess I have never been one to do what other people do in any case!

Michelle and Katrina - why do you two live so far away?!!!

Ok well now that I have written an entire blog post instead of a comment I will throw out my empty M&M packet (yes, that would be a family size pack) and get on with some of my household tasks.
It is a beautiful day here which certainly helps with motivation.

Love you lots Michelle!!