Thank goodness those days are long gone.

I remember very well those days when my own were that age.

You will be so grateful when they are grown and you will have your Sundays back again!

By then, you will never take reading the Sunday paper uninterrupted for granted again ever!

I advise that when the kids get a bit older, you sign them up for activities on Sundays, like gymnastics, that don't accept/require parental involvement. then you can sit and read the paper for the entire class. That's what I do during my daughter's 5-6 pm Sunday gymnastics class, and it's awesome.

Anonymous wrote:How would your kid feel if everyone skipped his birthday party??

New poster here. Hopefully kidskin it their actual friends and not just any old kid they know. Friends make it a point to get to friends parties.

Anonymous wrote:I simplify Sunday mornings by watching my church service streaming online. These stressful years when they're little will be over before you know it and you will have may quiet Sundays again and long for these days. You have the most important job there is - being mommy. I'm sure you are doing a fine job.

Wow, this so rarely happens but every single thing you said was either something I disagreed with or it made me roll my eyes.

Mine is 11 and I have had many years of lazy Sundays back. I love lazy Sundays hanging out at the pool or on the deck with my tween *way* more than I liked the toddler/preschooler years. I don't miss those years for a minute.

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Anonymous wrote:Although our days our always busy, my husband and I trade off morning duty. So I at least still get my lazy Sunday mornings and almost always get to read the paper.

That is so rude!! Please don't do that. And besides, you can consider it free entertainment and you can sit there and be lazy while your kid enjoys his friends and birthday stuff.

What else are you going to do? Have your kids sit there patiently all day long watching you be lazy? You might as well have them watch paint dry.

I'm sorry, what exactly are you reply to here? What about trading off morning duty with my husband has anything to do with being rude and birthday parties?

Poster quoted the wrong message. I'm sure it wasn't personal - she was replying to another post (not yours) about skipping the kids' birthday parties.

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Anonymous wrote:Although our days our always busy, my husband and I trade off morning duty. So I at least still get my lazy Sunday mornings and almost always get to read the paper.

That is so rude!! Please don't do that. And besides, you can consider it free entertainment and you can sit there and be lazy while your kid enjoys his friends and birthday stuff.

What else are you going to do? Have your kids sit there patiently all day long watching you be lazy? You might as well have them watch paint dry.

I'm sorry, what exactly are you reply to here? What about trading off morning duty with my husband has anything to do with being rude and birthday parties?

You will have a lazy Sunday again! I have 3 kids (7, 5 and 5). Saturdays are usually busy with sporting events and bday parties but Sundays are often quiet (with sometimes an afternoon event or bday party). This morning we all slept until 8am. Kids colored / drew for an hour upon waking up while I drank coffee, then ate breakfast and played on iPad (a very occasional treat) while I went for a run, I came back and ate a leisurely brunch while reading 2 papers. Now lounging on couch with DH while kids playing in the yard. Uh oh - fight might be erupting - prob time to take them out somewhere!!

Anonymous wrote:Trust me, you'll blink your eyes and your kid will be graduating to middle school. I sleep in all I want, but can't figure out where my little boy went.

This is totally choking me up. My kids are 2.5y and 7m, so we're right in the thick of it, but thank you for this reminder of how fast time flies. I try so hard to cherish these times, tough as they are, for this exact reason.

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Anonymous wrote:Trust me, you'll blink your eyes and your kid will be graduating to middle school. I sleep in all I want, but can't figure out where my little boy went.

Plus 1.
The grass isn't always greener on the other side...I would love to have my kids be little again and snuggle up in bed with us. The newspaper can wait.

My 17 month old will not snuggle in bed. She is all go go go. And we now officially can't go to restaurants either. I'm hoping 1-3 are the hardest years and then there's some light at the end of the tunnel.

Anonymous wrote:Although our days our always busy, my husband and I trade off morning duty. So I at least still get my lazy Sunday mornings and almost always get to read the paper.

That is so rude!! Please don't do that. And besides, you can consider it free entertainment and you can sit there and be lazy while your kid enjoys his friends and birthday stuff.

What else are you going to do? Have your kids sit there patiently all day long watching you be lazy? You might as well have them watch paint dry.

How would your kid feel if everyone skipped his birthday party??