Just give me 30 minutes

Yes, I just stay in my room too and lay for some 15 minutes. At all times, our brain cells need some time off to make the body work and mobilize well. Even a high regarded technology needs some rest, our body and our minds needs it more.

It's happened a few times. I say let me put my things down and go to the bathroom I've been holding it all day and I stay in there for 10 min. and take a deep breath. I just thought I was off work.

I always feel like that after a day work. I did find the solution to it. I did choose to remain single and live alone.

I often feel like that being the mom of 6 biys, wife to a loving (but sometimes needy hubby), and having my mom (who is disabled) living with us. Computer time is my break from the world!

i feel that way everytime my kids come home from a weekend at there moms house ,they get home and want a million different things done at once ,so i do like you ,i retreat to my bedroom for a while gather my plan of attack and take care of things

Oh I remember it well, but since the kids have grown, I even miss that crazy time of the day. *sigh* I use to do the same thing, retreat to my bedroom, for 10,15 minuts, and just breath. Of course it never lasted more then that, before someone was coming in to tell me something. I really thought that was the most taxing time of the day. When you get off work, your spouse gets off work, and the kids get home from school. Then there is supper to cook, homework, oh yea and all those other activities like GirlScout, youth group, baseball, football, band. Oh man, you name it my kids did it. Those after school activities. I am sitting here thinking how did I do all that stuff lol. Oh well, we are moms, and we do what we must right? Have a nice Easter Katherine.

Yes I had it all the time I never used to sit down till 9pm to rest but that was my own fault I knew if I sat down first to rest I would not want to get up So I used to make a coffee and talk to the Kids first while I had the Coffee then I would cook the Dinner and just carry on from there Once it was all done I would sit down and relax

I used to get that constantly when I was still able to work and now I feel that way all the time! lol I used to say that I had to have a nice hot bubble bath first and then I would deal with everything! It was great - time to relax and unwind and you came out refreshed and ready to go! xxx

i hate whenever orers are just thrown at me right away. I still live with my parents, cuase im a teenager of course, but the second i open my eyes i have orders thrown at me..do this..do that..do this ..do that. Id like about 10 minutes to officially wake up before im forced to do things.

When I was working I would always need a while to reflect on the day. Preferably with a gin and tonic in hand! The bedroom is a good place for this as you can just lie there and let yourself make the transition from work to home. When she was smaller my daughter would come in and we would cuddle and talk about what was going on in her life. That was a real wind down. Molly's going somewhere on holiday; Freddie fell over and cut his knee; Don't tell Mummy that I ripped my dress etc. These days, winding down isn't much of a requirement; getting wound up is what I need to do now.

My husband msot defintely feels that way and we sometimes have a hard time making that happen with a little one in the house. I find it hard to get time to myself unless my baby girl is sleeping. I think a lot of people who are married and have children or even those who don't have children find it a little difficult. Hope you can start getting your few minutes of alone time! Good discussion topic.

I think you can go out to do some exercises so that you can relax youself and make you more health.We all live in a busy life now and sometimes we always want to get away from it but it's not possible.

Though I still don't have kids, I am often stressed out because of work. I am working on a graveyard shift and when I come home in the morning, I just want to go to bed and sleep. But sometimes, that would not be the case. Noisy neighbors, family members asking you questions that want immediate answer things like that. What I would do is to go to my room and shut my door. When I am going to sleep I also want my door locked so that no one can go in and out. Because a little noise would woke me uo and I can never go to sleep again. I also bring down the curtains and make sure that the room is dark since it is already sunshine outside. Before I go to sleep, I meditate for about 30mins. Just sort of to settle down,

You absolutely need to reclaim those 10 minutes you used to take "a long time ago". Think of it as an investment. 10 minutes now; a better wife and mother for the rest of the day. Unless the house is on fire or someone is dying, you owe it to yourself and to your family.

yes when I was young and working but now I am disabled and only my son lives with me, he is 31, but he does annoy me at times when he wants to talk and I am trying to get a writing assignment done though

I am not in that situation now but when I worked and my son was little my husband made it a point that I sit down in my own room and take at least fifteen minutes to relax over a cup of coffee before I went to bed as I was working niights in a hospital as a nurses aid.He would get breakfast for allthree of us and then while i went to bed he would drive myson in to his school about fifteen miles away. bless his soul he did spoil me and he felt so bad because he was handicapped and I had to work but I did not mind that.I loved working as a nurses aid when I was younger and not handicapped like I am now but it was also very tiring and I would get grouchy and sleepy by the time we got home I worked from a nurses registryso never knew just where I was going to work next and my hubby drove me to work and picked me up in the mornings and had the traffic and the freeways to confront him. like I say bless him. There were times when he took the three of us to our favorite cafe for breakfast and that was a treat even tho I was so sleepy.