[3for3hb]

I don't know why I've been feeling like this the past few days, maybe it's all the change and getting used to the whole transition of moving and schedule changes with dh's work but I literally feel like I just want to crawl out of my skin. It's a touched out, exhausted, just want to crawl in a hole for a couple of days feeling. I guess I feel irritable but there is no REAL thing or person that I'm irritated at. I know it's probably pregnancy hormones blah blah blah but it's just frustrating me that I can't pinpoint exactly why and what's going on because then there is no real thing I can do about it. Maybe it's just that I haven't had ANY me time in a long time. And of course I didn't feel this way last time so it's a new sensation.

Just wondering if anyone else has that constant nails on chalkboard feeling.

Gahhhhh!

 

[trmpetplaya]

I've been feeling a bit irritable lately too... if you couldn't tell

And I've always avoided blaming my mood on hormones too... It has always bothered me when women did that (especially when I was a young teenager), but I guess there's something to it after all because really, the hormones are going nuts in here! Luckily the annual Rotary Club rummage sale and auction is happening this Saturday and so I'll get to volunteer there all week long organising books (and picking up way too many in the process...) and finding cool baby stuff - for cheap - in the children's section! So that should help direct my energies a bit

love and peace.

 

[3for3hb]

I LOVE rummage sales and yard sales!!! Thrift stores can tend to be a little more "used" if you know what I mean. The past two weekends I have gotten some incredible deals on baby stuff and toddler stuff. Last week I got all the diapers and covers I needed for this baby for under $15!!! I even got a huge toybox for Willem for $1! I for one believe that there is very little that you should buy brand new for baby/growing children. They grow out of the clothes etc. so quickly and lose interest in toys and playthings quickly as well. I think one could spend a fortune if you are not careful. So we go the route of hand me downs and second hand. And I love the bargaining factor as well. My rule of bargaining is always offer half of what they are asking. It's worked so many times!
Good luck hunting for deals!!!

 

[gonnabeamom]

I've had a few periods like that, where just everything bugs me way more than it should, and I know it and that just makes me more grumpy. The things that have helped me generally involved getting absorbed in something physical and slightly mindless-nothing brain-intensive or potentially frustrating. Knitting does it for me as long as I know the pattern well-no trying to do something new. Also some gardening. Taking walks somewhere pretty is immensely helpful, it's just hard for me to feel too grumpy and put upon when I'm looking at something beautiful.

Hope this helps!