Right now, my one year old is watching Hi-5 so I can get some work done (and here I am on BB...).

My seven year old talks A LOT. Like constantly. I tune out just so that I don't tell her to be quiet! The best thing about her being back at school is that I can drive in the car with only the radio to listen to. She also seems to start talking when I'm trying to tell her something, which means she often forgets what I've asked her to do, or told her. The other day she asked me a question and literally two mins later repeated the same question because she'd clearly drifted away while I was answering her!

So yes, I get frustrated. I hear the nag in my voice talking to DD1 and feel bad. We say prayers together at her bedtime and one of the parts of that is to say sorry for anything we've done wrong during the day. I seem to always have a sorry for getting cross with her, or yelling at her, or nagging her.

And I don't have enough time to get everything done so I feel like I'm still half a dozen jobs behind at the end of every day. A to do list would just depress me.

And I so hear you on the waking the baby thing. Honestly, I swear DD1 and DP have lead in their feet the way they stomp down the stairs when I'm trying to settle DD2. Or they come up chattering away with no regard for the same thing! Does my head in! I feel like making them put DD2 to sleep for an hour when she's having trouble falling asleep.