What do you do with the kids when you are ill and want to be alone??

[Zephyrcat]

I feel so guilty. All I've done all day is snap at them and be miserable. I feel like s**t but it's not their fault. I didn't even take dd to pre-school today because I couldn't face getting everyone ready and going out, which is so unfair on dd. There's no-one else to look after them so they are stuck with evil mummy

Oh, I really fell for you.

Give them sweets and put a DVD on and go and lie down. Thing is though, when you feel like crap they somehow lose the ability to entertain them selves don't they?

Hope yoiu feel better soon.
xx

Feel for you. Not fell Lol

I'm the dvd mummy too.... DD has been on mickey mouse pretty much all day .

It's a hard one - I ususally beg grandparents or a good friend to take them for a few hours. Hard though if you have no-one to rely on like that.

Why didn't I think of dvd's? lol That's my usual strategy! I've been feeling worse and worse as the day goes on so it's only the last couple of hours I'm really feeling the strain!

I just keep thinking it's time to make dinner now and only two hours til they go to bed - feels like forever away!!