My mood has taken a severe dip this evening.

[Lastfreakinglegs]

I feel upset and weepy.
Kids have been challenging today.
I have work I need to do before tomorrow afternoon.
The kids will be off again next week whilst I'm trying to work.
They will either be bickering or plugged into tech.
Dp is keeping the house too cold for my liking.
I feel generally achey and stressed.

Help me out with some ideas to pull me out of this.

A warm bubble bath?

@ssd am considering this thanks.

Turn the heating up... And I hear you about the work pressure. Option a is to leave it to tomorrow morning so as to give yourself proper me-time now. Option b is to find a quiet place and start the work, ignore the kids. Option c is what I'll probably do, not do any work but still worry about it, thus spoiling my evening for no good outcome.

That's it isn't it @chillied. I need to move from c to a or b.....

I mean I don’t have any advice but I get you. I feel you.
Not sure if I’m quite at despair but I’m d
Flirting close to the line.
My kids break up this coming Friday. I am so looking forward to it. And I’ve got 5 days off from work!

Make yourself a hot water bottle to snuggle, find a quiet space, clear the work, go and have a bubble bath with a glass of wine and lock the door

Definitely a bath and heating up.
Can you do any prep for the work tomorrow- just a bit so you're not ignoring the kids but have a head start? Plan it out? Draft emails?

Can you disappear upstairs and leave DP to do bedtime?

Lock yourself in the bathroom, glass of wine, and have a nice hot soak in the bath with a book or a TV show to distract you. Have a bit of a pamper, go to bed and just have some time out from it all. Get a good night's sleep and tackle the work situation in the morning.

Just put it out of your mind for now.

I have no advice but feel the same as you. I have a packed week at work ahead of me and my son who is 5 to entertain/school and look after. It doesn't help that I hate my job. Just feel trapped. I don't know of it helps you to know this but you are not alone. Time to whip out my favourite phrase "this too shall pass...."

These are lovely thank you. Drawing a bath as we speak

Turn the heating up, get the work done then have a bath. You’ll feel much better starting a Monday with the work done. Good luck!

You will feel so much better in the morning if you do some of the work today. I also have a deadline by lunchtime tomorrow. I have done about 2 hours of work on it today (about half of what I need to do) as I know that I will wake up feeling like crap otherwise.

How old are the kids? Are they old enough that you could write them a todo list with a reward when they finish?

Mine have been challenging too today. All three were crying at once at one point.

I had a little cry a couple of weeks ago after an overwhelming feeling of "I can't". It made me feel better actually - got it out of my system and I felt a bit stronger.

I just keep thinking that every day now is lots more vaccinations happening and a bit more daylight.

Once you've had a soak and got warm in your favourite pjs, focus on you and have wine or book or early bed etc. We all need to take care of ourselves!

Definitely crank up the heating and have a self- care evening. Get DP to do bedtimes and have yourself a nice hot drink (or cold ) and stick a favourite film on.

Don't be harsh on yourself, you're doing great and you're going to feel refreshed in the morning and ready to crack on with your work.

Thanks everyone. I'm thinking after this bath I'm going to make myself a hot water bottle then enscone myself upstairs and finish my work. That way I buy myself some time tomorrow.

Our organisation is restructuring in the middle of a pandemic. Wankers. So I'm trying to do everything perfect to keep my job. But tbh. Its going to have to be just good enough tomorrow.

"plugged into tech"

Could you install apps with some educational aspect?

I put Scribblenauts Unlimited on my DC tablets as it helps learn spellings.

Hope the bath was good!

Wankers indeed.

Music music music.

I am currently dancing to Freedom by Wham!
Whatever your happy tunes are - stick them on loud and dance!

Good idea. I've been going to bed with tuned. Relaxing ones. Must do that tonight.

Hope today is better @Lastfreakinglegs

Much better today thanks @ssd. I even managed a run today. Thanks for the advice last night. It really helped.

Fab. It's all just ups and downs just now, isn't it. Glad today was better.

Have you eaten? I always feel better after a decent meal. If you’re too tired to cook or your DP won’t cook for you then make a huge plate of toast and a mug of tea.

Then crank the heating up and tell DP to pack it in with playing with it.

Have a hot bath, an early night- and don’t sit up doom scrolling on your phone. Put your phone down and leave it until morning.