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Anyone else feeling a bit down today?

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wesew · 03/01/2021 11:57

Xmas is over
New year but same sh**
Back to work tomorrow
Worried about school situation ( tier4) and even if kids go back they are likely to be sent home shortly
House is a tip and needs cleaning
I'm fatter than ever
Feel that I need to drink and eat less for the next month

Before I get criticised I know it could be a lot worse and I'm very lucky but I just wanted a little moan!

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homeappliances · 03/01/2021 12:01

Yep! And also feeling sad that we didn't get to see family on Christmas Day.

Pinkyandthebrainz · 03/01/2021 12:02

Yes. I can already feel the stress and panic building at the thought of going back to work tomorrow.

Lepetitpiggy · 03/01/2021 12:03

Funnily enough I am feeling more nervous and twitchy about the virus than ever before. I've been reasonably ok - following rules, mask wearing etc, but today it's kind of properly sunk in that this is utter shit!

Plussizejumpsuit · 03/01/2021 12:37

Yep
I'm feeling a bit poorly too. So just feel meh. As you say I'm very aware it could be worse. But just feel like there's nothing much to look forward too. Don't feel particularly rested either and have a busy month at work.

So yes you're not alone!

ifancyagreencard · 03/01/2021 12:40

Just got my positive test result. As well as feeling worried for me and the household, am totally fucked off and down as we have been REALLY careful and mindful. Only place it could have come from is the shops. If we've got it, those being less careful have got no chance of avoiding it!

JuneFromBethesda · 03/01/2021 12:45

Yes, me. So tired of the escalating bad news, and the uncertainty over schools (I have one child at primary school, one at secondary, and my husband is a teacher ...)

It just occurred to me that the anniversary of the first lockdown really isn't that far off, and at this rate we could still be in lockdown by the time it comes around. Imagine if we'd been told then that we had a whole year of this shit ahead of us.

I have more positive days too, and I have so much to be thankful for, but yes, I wanted a moan too Sad

ladygracie · 03/01/2021 12:48

@ifancyagreencard I hope you aren’t feeling too unwell.
I am feeling very sad today. As others have said - messy house, fat, unfit, not ready for work tomorrow (in all the ways - I am a teacher). And my daughter went back to uni this morning and I know I’m really going to miss her. Just a massive pity party really!

Nomnomarrgh · 03/01/2021 13:15

That McDonald’s ad for the New Year 2000 springs to mind. “Everything’s the same...”

Feel really pants. Was supposed to have a job interview yesterday but it got cancelled cos of covid.

On the plus side, I’ve just reached a milestone and this is the longest I’ve lived somewhere since I left home!

Areyouactuallyseriousrightnow · 03/01/2021 13:16

Definitely.

Tink1990 · 03/01/2021 13:21

Same here. I have no motivation at all. To do ANYTHING. Even though there is loads to do. Sigh. And work tomorrow, meh. Don't even know what i wish for!

Mcmole · 03/01/2021 13:22

Yes me, stressed beyond belief about the prospect of homeschooling, sad I haven't seen my family for almost a year, and taken the decorations down today so the house looks bare. Wanted to go out for a walk but it's so damn slippery everywhere it's no fun. Thought about getting takeout tonight as a treat, as am so sick of cooking every night but DH doesn't want to.....which has pissed me off as he never cooks anyway!

Sallycinnamum · 03/01/2021 13:26

Me too. Back to work tomorrow, have both DC homeschooling from tomorow and it's so wet here I can't be arsed to get out and go for a walk.

I actually had a bit of a weep this morning.

I know in the grand scheme of things, we're ok but I'm so desperate to give my parents a hug and see my friends in other than the sodding park. What I'd give to have a pizza and a cold glass of wine other than my home right now!

SantasBritchesSpelleas · 03/01/2021 13:30

Yes, me. Took the Christmas tree down this morning. Work tomorrow. I feel weary at the thought of another year - not particularly because of the pandemic, I just can't bear the thought of the same old wheels turning again and again.

Bluewavescrashing · 03/01/2021 13:32

Yup, pissed off and worried about teaching this week. I miss my class and can't wait to see them but this undercurrent of anxiety is dragging me down.

Nothing to do today with DCs, nothing open, freezing cold. Everyone's in a bad mood. Ugh

kulaexchange · 03/01/2021 13:35

Haha!!! My list of shitness would be exactly the same as yours op!!! I'm hoping the kids (inevitably brief) return to school will aid the being too fat/eating too much and shit heap house situation though!!!

MountainDweller · 03/01/2021 13:37

I've been feeling like that since New Year's Eve - for some reason all the Happy New Year stuff seems so fake, there's nothing happy about it. And I'm just so upset about how much Brexit is going to affect my life.

troppibambini · 03/01/2021 13:37

Yep me too.
The kids go back tomorrow except one who is off til the 11th. I've spent the whole morning cleaning, taking the decks down and washing.
I've still got to find all the crap they need for tomorrow when actually I feel like curling up on the sofa and doing nothing.

Murraytheskull · 03/01/2021 13:38

Same here and glad its not just me, in a selfish kind of way. Back to work tomorrow (and not allowed to wfh although I did during the first lockdown), worrying about school (DC hated being homeschooling and wfh at the same time was stressful beyond belief), Christmas was pretty shit if I'm being honest and I don't feel like I achieved anything with the time off from work.

Ranting is therapeutic though. Smile

grool · 03/01/2021 13:39

Yep. I had a bit of a cry earlier as I'm just so fed up. This is our last day of 10 days of isolation and as much as I love my kids I can't wait to get away from them!

Back to work tomorrow which is a depressing thought. DP is back at work so all the daily grunt work will once more be all mine aa I'm part time.

DD is going back to school but we are tier 4 so big chance her school will close. I cannot go back to March with home schooling with a feral toddler and household to look after. Feels so bloody hopeless that there is nothing to look forward to.

OrangeSamphire · 03/01/2021 13:42

Yes me too.

Overweight, two disabled children, one who won’t leave her room and is suicidal. Life is so so shit. I can’t really see the point in carrying on.

Topsy44 · 03/01/2021 13:47

Glad to read I'm not the only one feeling like this. Feeling anxious about going back to work tomorrow. My dd's school is closed but as I am a keyworker she will be going in. Feeling anxious about how she will cope without any of her friends there.

Managed to take the decs down this morning, always makes me feel a bit sad and now not alot of motivation to do anything. Hoping that mood will jump up as week goes on.

Kenworthington · 03/01/2021 13:48

Yes me too. Ds went back to uni yesterday after having Xmas with us, my Mum and dad both have Covid and are in a nursing home, I don’t really know how they are , just sitting waiting and worrying, am working which is distracting but also I feel like ‘what’s the point??’ And also frustrated that I have customers coming in who prob don’t need to. We are classified as essential but it’s a nonsense. Dd has her 16th in two days and it’s ds’s 18th at the end of the month and both are going to be so disappointing

Mogwaimug · 03/01/2021 13:50

I'm really struggling today too. Ive been really disappointed with the Christmas break. It was lovely to have the time off together as a family, but we definitely missed having things to go out to, missed visiting family etc.

DH has been back in work this weekend. I'm sick of being couped up in the house all day with the kids. They climb the walls if we stay in all day. They moan and complain about going out, by the time I get them out it's cold, sleet is falling and DS1 has bad asthma that gets set off by the cold so I feel bad being out longer than an hour or so with him.

Most of all, I'm just missing having time alone. The DC stay up later in the evenings in the holidays. I was going to the gym in the evenings as a bit of me time but can't do that anymore. I WFH and the DC school is closed for at least two weeks.

I feel like a terrible mum, but I just feel trapped! Lockdown as much easier in the summer. The kids went out in the backgarden and entertained themselves much more. We went for long walks everyday.

NotCornflakes · 03/01/2021 13:50

Me! Last night I didn't sleep well at all. So was lying awake thinking we've been in this shit situation for almost a year now, when is it going to end?! Plus dreading going back to work as I've been asked (well, told...) to take on new responsibilities this year which I really don't want to do. But I'm grateful to have a job, so I do just need to suck it up.

DrRamsesEmerson · 03/01/2021 13:59

Really down, and can’t see an end to it. The government is clearly about to fuck up the vaccine distribution in the same way they’ve fucked up everything else, DD’s school is closed and in my darker moments I think she’ll never go back (she’s Y6, so this is her last year at that school). She’s a sociable child and is really suffering from not seeing people and I can’t give her any hope about when she might be able to see friends again.

I really wish we hadn’t had her, I can’t see a future for her after this even if her mental health recovers. Especially as thanks to Brexit her options for moving elsewhere are curtailed.

Personally I feel as though a spring has broken somewhere. I don’t think any of the things I love that make life enjoyable (music, theatre, opera, ballet) are coming back any time soon, and by the time they’re possible again most arts organisations will have gone bust. It doesn’t feel worth living.

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