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[quote=Anonymous]OP - I'm with you.  Working mom here of a K and 1st grader and yeah, I'm sick of it all too.  It's not about getting outsourced help - I have a nanny/back up nanny for babysitting, housekeeping weekly, great DH who helps me and it's the same for both of us - it is a slog many weeks at a time.  I go through dips and then times when I'm so busy I just can't really think about how things are :)

1. Do something really cool once in awhile - Les Miserables is coming to National Theater in Dec.  See if you can pull some girlfriends (other moms - good opp. to get to develop a closer relationship with a casual friend) or your husband.  You can get dressed up, see a show, it's an event.  A movie + dinner works too.  In other words, find an excuse to do something that is totally different than mom life :)

2. Take a day off work.  Just do it.  Sleep or do nothing, buy a pair of earrings going shopping, do anything but it's a few hours for you.

3. I have someone overnight my kids (old nanny/back up nanny) every now and then.  It's like a sleepover - it gets the kids out of the house for 1 night.  You can have family do it, kids' friend sleepover if old enough, etc.  The idea is to get them out of your sight for 1 night.

I don't buy the exercise, eat well crap.  It's not about doing something to "feel better" daily - and it's not about getting away either.  It's just feeling like your routine is the same every fucking day for me.  For me, finding an opportunity to focus on me takes me out of the routine.  It can be as easy as "losing" myself in a great TV show.  Try getting hooked on a show LOL  It sounds ridiculous but it helps.  It's all about feeling like you have a Groundhog Day life.

Good luck![/quote]

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