Lady it sounds like you've had a rough time 💐 for you. It's okay to feel sorry for ourselves for a short time, as long as you don't stay there! Aim to start with one little thing or 15 minutes and give yourself a break with no guilt
zoo fitting time in for yourself is always a good thing! I did last night with my bath, yes, my shoulder hurt (& it helped amazingly wild) but I added lots of bubbles, Epsom salts, lit some candles and took a drink in there, it was so relaxing, I highly recommend it!
wild that's good that you didn't have much to declutter, I know how frustrating it can be to find way more of something that you didn't realise you had. At least the foil can't go bad!
Red I hope you're feeling better soon 💐 isn't it funny how we meet someone briefly who can end up being in our lives in the future in one way or another, sorry to hear she's no longer around though
ED oh I'm sorry to hear about your casserole dish. It's such a shame when things like that happen, but now you have an excuse to go out and buy a replacement. Sorry that dinner wasn't the greatest after all
wild making flylady work for you is definitely the best thing, we all have to fit it in our schedules or it will never work! That's the great thing about this thread, there is no one way that is best
hills it sounds like you had a rough day. Do you think they're acting that way because they don't want you to leave and move on with your life?
Bean the only saying I can think of right now is a line from a song "things can only get better" although I'm currently sitting on my arse, on mumsnet, drinking a white Russian while I have a mess in the kitchen of things that need to go back downstairs (basement) and I'm ignoring it 😅 not a very good role model for the newbies on the thread am I?!
Sing I hope you actually got to enjoy your break, without feeling guilty
spaghetti welcome back! You were here before my time, I'm sure. I moved house last year, it was a big upheaval. We had lived in our previous home for 14 1/2 years, so had lots to move. I had big plans to create new routines and keep on top of everything better, ha! I was able to keep some things going, but feel like I am not doing as much as I should every day/ week.
zoo were you actually able to ignore "the corner"?
So after another 10 hour day at work, I'm currently doing nothing we had leftovers for dinner. DS & DH rotated DW. I really do have a mess in the kitchen, DD who is done with school, home all day, doing no housework (that we can tell), although working late every night.
We've had a rough couple of days. We just found out that DH grandma is now on hospice care, she's home with MIL, who is her caregiver 24 hours a day since just before Christmas. This was not the plan. She's supposed to live forever! She had a stroke 5 or 6 years ago, was in a care facility, alone, ever since. She can't sit, stand, talk (other than yes, sure or no), let alone feed herself or go to the bathroom herself. MIL did this for a living (hospice care) for 40+ years, she knows what she's doing, but it's taking a toll on her.
I know this is a safe space to vent, that's all I'm doing. Grandma needs to be comfortable, she's surrounded by love, but it's still hard to know that time is coming, eventually. It may not be now, it could be in a month, 6 months, 2 years, who knows? But being under "hospice care" will mean that MIL will have more support, as she needs that for sure.
Anyway, enough of that. I really should get things put away, but honestly I don't see it being done until the weekend. I'm going to try to make it an early night. Last night wasn't as bad as it has been, but not the time I wanted to be in bed by.
🍒👋 to everyone