To not know where to start with tip of a house?

[Houseatip]

Feeling a bit low and useless.

DC has a December birthday; despite efforts to tone it down well meaning relatives bought absolutely loads and then Christmas on top. (I know I sound ungrateful - I’m not, honestly.)

DC is also unwell and waking constantly through the night and I mean constantly.

I’m pregnant. Hardly a hugely awful pregnancy but just the same struggling with those things we all know and love from tri 1: nausea and exhaustion and so on.

DH is ill . I’ve been taking toddler out to try to give him time to rest.

But the house looks like the proverbial bomb has hit it. I try to put toys away and DC takes them out. The kitchen seems to mess itself up. Stuff stuff STUFF.

I know like now I should be cleaning/tidying but honestly I’ve spent all day with the toddler and I’m absolutely wiped out.

Hope everyone gets better soon, but at this stage 'safe and hygienic' , so make sure walkways are clear and rubbish etc cleared. The rest will come.

Shove all the junk from one room (living room/bedroom perhaps) into another room so one room is tidy and calm. Make yourself a cup of tea and drink it in the tidy room. You will hopefully then feel calm and relaxed enough to tackle a little bit at a time over a few days and have a calm place to retreat to in between.

Mine too, and I don’t have any excuse!

I can’t wait for the Christmas decs to come down, as it gives us a little more room. At the moment I’m just moving piles of stuff from one place to another. I’ve come upto bed with my iPad to watch a Bridgerton (again!) to escape it, but it’s not much better up here

You don't have to under these circumstances. Wait until DH is better and blitz the house together. Just keep work surfaces wiped clean and take the rubbish out.

If it is stressing you, just do this:
set a timer for 5 mins. Choose the room you use most and tidy the biggest most annoying clutter - big toys, shoes, coats, bags etc. Chuck out any old papers, junk mail, empty jars and bottles etc.

Put away at least half the toys. Take out just a couple at a time. If DC asks for a specific one, get it out, but otherwise rotate them and keep the rest hidden away.

This too shall pass. Good advice up there ^^ about shoving everything into the other room and sitting quietly in state for an hour.
You have my total sympathy fwiw.
And ... my sons and daughters are grown now and everything is so different. It's quite tidy here today. I miss their little selves a bit 🙂
All snotty and messy and cute ❤️

Try to clear just one room, when better and have the energy be ruthless and walk around with bin bags...one for rubbish, one for charity shop and fill those and then get them out of the house fast...no temptation to pull items out.

Bin bags
Collect it all
Put in an unused room
To be tackled at a later date.