Replies to 'Working Moms'

Hi all,  

  I am 23 years old and have 4 kids, i work on an avarage of 80+ hours a week. I work awake overnights and then watch my firends kids plus mine during the day. I get like 3 hours of sleep a night - day and work weekends..  Sometimes i feel like i dont spend any time with my kids, i am always working, meetings and whatever else i have to do. I want to get ahead in the world and have everyone stop judging me. People stare at me and jugde me all time because i have 4 childern. for example when i go food shopping they automaticly assume that i am on food stamps, and it upsets me because i work very hard to support me and my kids. I know that i should not care what they think but ir really bothers me.. 

    I feel like i dont spend that much time with them so on my days off i bring them everywere i can think of for example in one weekend we went to the circus, park, out to eat, the zoo, and an easter egg hunt. is that wrong of me? My 3 year old cry's everytime that i leave, and my 10 month old is such a daddys girl now because he gets to spend all the time with them and not me and i am jealous because he has a relationship like that with her and not me, (he can get her to wave bye bye and say dada) and she wont do it for me. what can i do, I cant really stop working because i am trying to buy a house ( i have never lived in a house before).  

    I get depressed every once in a while becuase people my age are out partying and i am at work or home all the time, i love my kids and i would never give them up for anything, they chaged my life for the better but sometimes i just want to "act my age"  How can I feel like my age but still be responsible.. Sorry i just have a lot on my mind right now and hope there are some young moms out there that want to chat sometime....