to ask you to help me soldier on?

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Bit long, sorry.

DP has the tummy bug DD1 and I had three days ago. DP looks and feels like he's just crawled out of a grave but is trying to help. Friend who helped cook dinner has been sick too. I srill have tummy trouble from both ends and am feeling faint. I'm the only one able to adequately care for DD's. Dinner is cooked yet wasted. Lumped me with all the cleaning up.

To top it all off I have DD1 in the bath, I need the toilet but DP is in there, DD2 is crying in her cot, I haven't slept in 40ish hours due to pain and insomnia and it's still hours before DD's go to bed.

Please help me through this. I am so depressed that I spent close to £200 on food and alcohol, most of which is wasted and by the time we can eat again properly all the veg will be no good and the turkey just about.

Ok. Crying now. Shouldn't be crying on Christmas day, especially when this morning seemed so perfect and magical.

Aww bless you! You will laugh about this next year, I promise you.

Oh love. What happens to a Christmas dinner if you just let it cool, chuck it in tupperware and put it in the freezer? I'm sure it will be edible, if not quite as nice....

Can you just close the door on the mess in the kitchen and deal with it tomorrow when you're feeling a bit stronger?

I would send you virtual booze, but maybe that's not so good on a delicate stomach? Have a virtual bottle of disinfectant instead- I'm sure it'll come in useful....

I hope so! Right now it feels like a total disaster holding down the fort on my own but I know it's all first world problems. We're happy(ish), healthy(ish) and incredibly lucky. Somehow that makes me cry harder.

I assume you've done a roast.

If you have space, freeze it all. I always freeze hunks of turkey and ham for use in curries, stirfries, pasta dishes etc

Being poorly at Christmas sucks

I remember a classic year like that when I had norovirus, twas truly miserable but can reflect on it with humour now. I wish you all well.

I can't freeze more than two types of veg as my freezer is tiny and already filled with things for the week. Looks like it'll be turkey in the fridge plus some pastry and a sauce and whip up a pie. I could always make bubble and squeak tomorrow for the DD's. That'll be ok if the veg is covered overnight, right?

Poor you, just get through today, they'll be other Christmas'. As others said, freeze dinner and you can eat it when you're all better, have your own mini Christmas when everyone else is in the post-Christmas slump. Not long until bed time!

It happens!! Bung the food in the fridge and curl up on the sofa.

We laugh about the year I worked a night shift, came home very feverish, cooked dinner for everyone whilst feeling awful, ate none of it and then went to bed with both dses, one of whom threw up in his Christmas dinner!!

We spent the rest of the day in bed with raging temperatures, dh got slowly pissed with his family and I had to get up to the chaos next morning with the dses as dh was too hungover. We were ill for the whole of the dh never did get it

I vowed never to work and do Christmas again and I haven't!

Veg will be fine for tommorow if just covered btw

I reckon the veg could even do 2 days in the fridge if you were going to cook it again. Not got any kindly neighbours with chest freezers?

We've not long moved here and only know next door who are elderly and staying with family hours away. I don't have a key . Next door on the other side is a restaraunt but it isn't open. Boo :(.

I'll throw everything in the fridge tonight and try to make a passable meal tomorrow when everyone is hopefully able to stomach food. DD's will no doubt have veg and gravy and stuff up with sweets.

It will be fine in the fridge for a few days, when you are feeling better make it into a pie. It will be lovely! Sorry you're having a rotten time :(

It will pass
It's not nice to be ill at Christmas.
If it's any consolation, I am trying to talk a drunk DP OUT of starting to cook Xmas dinner now...

Body That made me laugh. Is he completely ineptly drunk?

Thank you all. We're snuggling down and watching the Harry Potter box set my dad bought for me and trying not to think about it until tomorrow. I did clean the kitchen, though!

No, not yet!!!
It's just the three of us so no need for a big meal really.

Will it end in disaster if he cooks? If not, it might be time for you to sit back with some .

Oh I have been!
Hic.

I'm considering a cheeky Disaronno. It's only an hour and a quarter until bed time, I believe I've earned it and it couldn't upset my tummy any more, eh?

Body you are a bad influence! I am young and quite impressionable, you see.