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To let the kids go 36 hours in same PJs when I'm ill

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FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 11/08/2021 22:01

Is that gross?

Kids came back from exH's on Saturday with COVID after Ex contracted it.

I tested positive by Monday evening, been fine until about 11pm last night when I felt absolutely floored. Aching muscles mainly but also fever, dizziness and bad cough. Nothing to be alarmed about but I reckon I got one hour of sleep as a result and so when the kids woke at 7am I just made a bed on the sofa and spent the day being horizontal. As long as I was laid down I was fine! I'm still on the sofa.

The only things I've had the strength to do are:
-Go on my phone/sort TV/anything easy I can do with a handheld thing lying down
-Made the kids cereal for breakfast, followed by sandwiches for lunch then I gave up the ghost and got Domino's ordered for dinner.
-Go to the loo
-Put the kids to bed (they are 5 and 9 so this was essentially tucking in and kiss goodnight)

So I didn't change the kids out their PJs all day. They've gone to bed in the same PJs they had on last night - they're well able to change themselves and when I asked them to they farted about upstairs for 20 minutes and came down saying "we can't find the clothes we want" 🙄in no mood to argue, I said fine stay in those. Same tonight, they like the PJs they're in and said they couldn't find any others (I do need to do a washing load so they could be telling the truth, again I'm too ill to care)

Is this what everyone else would do or am I gonna wake with a pair of mutant children with incurable skin disease Grin

OP posts:
BastardMonkfish · 15/08/2021 03:32

This is how much pressure we put ourselves under as women, you have covid and you're berating yourself because the children aren't in fresh pyjamas. And other women here are joining in!! For fuck sake. Wearing pyjamas does not make you morally bankrupt or unhygienic.

Dangermouse5 · 15/08/2021 03:34

Thankyou B/Monkfish for saying what I tried to.

ohthatbloodycat · 15/08/2021 04:33

YANBU Thanks

CoNiOff · 16/08/2021 20:53

Hope you're getting better OP 🌹

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