What have you achieved today, no matter how small?

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Feeling drained, anxious, sad and exhausted today. But so far I have managed to

Get out of bed, feed the children and pets

Have a bath and get the DCs washed and dressed

Put a wash on

Sat outside for a bit having a cuppa and listened to the birds

My mental health is shot to pieces so I'm celebrating the very small wins today.

I’ve just made 3 apple and cinnamon cakes. Was very slap dash on the measurements and method.....and it tastes amazing 😃

Got on top of my marking for about 5 minutes before more stuff started coming in!

Showered and washed my hair. That took a lot of effort.
Just pottered in my garden there for half an hour. I’m not really an outdoor gardening type but trying to boost my mood

Done some washing, send a small parcel by post, watered my outdoor plants, done a bit of tidying in the kitchen, will be making a nice dinner shortly.

Made porridge
Helped some people do a hard mission in a game I play
Admired the model plane DH and DS have been building last few days
Put on a wash
Unloaded dishwasher sat in the garden

Done some washing and hung it out.
Cleaned kitchen surfaces
Made a quiche
Went for a walk
Bloody knackered now!

Built most of a new wardrobe, mostly correctly, with dh
Went to the shops
Knackered now

I put up some canes for my raspberrys. I also ate too much and drank a lot of tea and spent many many hours on my phone.

Woke up early with migraine. Helped friends with a zoom quiz. Cleaned downstairs bathroom. Made lunch. Walked six miles. Put a wash on. Crikey - I thought I hadn't done much. I was feeling very low after waking up at 5.30. Much better now.

Aside from a little bit of food shopping, I've done very little today. I'm not feeling great and so I am heading off for an early night very soon.

Washed my hair. It was doing that thing where if you took the ponytail band out it stayed in a ponytail shape on its own

Got out for quite a long walk with dd after breakfast, no tears/grumps which was nice.
Made a mask which has been confusing/stressing me out for days.

Made biscuits, cleaned out 3 kitchen cupboards and swapped the contents around (have needed to do this for ages) painted a paper mache volcano and kept a 4 year old and a potty training (14 pees a day) 2 year old alive.

Washed and dried my hair haven't actually dried it and not left it wet in a long time.

Did some washing, hung out and brought back in. Cleaned the bathroom.
Took dog for a woodland walk.
Baked a cake for DD's birthday tomorrow.
Cooked the dinner.
Still got to wrap her presents. Hermes didn't deliver one on time which is a pain!

Today has been a good day for me (after several not so great ones last week) and seem to be coming out of the funk I've been in .

I have sorted a big pile of all my paperwork into a small filing box - it originally filled a filing cabinet!

I have given away a big pile of scrap wood to a lovely couple who are collecting wood for their wood burner for the winter.

I have done a little OU study and had a lovely tea cooked by DH and my eldest DD is going to dye my hair for me later .

I hope your day improves, and celebrating the small wins and positives is a good strategy I think, it definitely helps me to stave off my sometimes poor MH .

Went grocery shopping and did the social distancing square dance round people.

Had a laugh with the checkout assistant who’d coordinated her eyeshadow with the colour of her face mask. Made me feel a bit better, that.
Tried to start drafting my DM’s eulogy and kept crying.
Tidied some clothes and had another cry because, um, clothes are sad?!

Ate leftover curry and did some staring/messing on my phone.

Been struggling a bit too the last couple of days, it sort of hit me like a brick. A nasty sort of bleak feeling and a heaviness in the body.

I walked the dog this morning (I couldn't bear to change out of my pyjamas though) after that I fell asleep and had a nightmare in which my lovely little cat was run over and me desperately trying to get him to a vet. I never usually remember my dreams, so why that one ffs?

Woke from sleep feeling terrible, pulled on clothes walked dog and made myself walk a bit further than planned. Politely asserted myself with some young men blocking the path with their bicycles (I'm working on my assertiveness ) Got home stuck on earphones and had a bit of a sing and a jig, feel marginally better now.

for my fellow strugglers

I just randomly crocheted 3 butterflies out of garden twine and stuck them on the fence! I'll probably not like them by tomorrow and take them down, but it filled half an hour or so!

That is all I've done all day. Apart from eat shit food. Kitchen is a tip and I can't be arsed now. Still, only an hour to go and I can go to bed and start again tomorrow - on to day 57 of incarceration....

Felt down today as a family member isn't well.

I managed to:

Do 2 washes
Hoover
Clean the kitchen and bathroom
Eat lots of chocolate
Get some plants for the garden

Tomorrow will be a better day as I will be going for a long walk

Sending good wishes to all those who have also had a bad day

I moved all the beds and the sofa and vacuumed under them.

Phoned the bank which I had been putting off for ages- was really straightforward in the end.
Did an washing
Put away clean washing
Tidied and hoovered the playroom
Played a game with ds2- don't think I've been doing enough of that lately.
Read lots of my book
Dh picked up prescriptions and cooked a bbq for dinner
Kept the kitchen fairly clean & tidy which I'm working on

Washed my hair
Took out the rubbish
Made it to 10,000 steps for the first time in aaaages
Sorted some childcare for next week

I feel a bit rubbish today but I have baked a cake, done 2 loads of washing and hung it out to dry, cleaned under my kitchen sink cupboard and made sausage and mash for tea. I also sat and watched an old film this afternoon with a cup of tea and piece of cake. Hope everyone has a better day tomorrow 💐