This Week

Monday: Valentine's Day, Rob gave me chocolates! I was sluggish and ineffective all day. Astrid had a cold.

Tuesday: I was desperately useless all day, until I fell asleep on the floor. A friend woke me and fed me drinks and reminded me to eat.

Wednesday: I couldn't get out of bed and eventually called Rob to come home from London to give the children breakfast.

Thursday: I got up, had a shower, but couldn't get the house clean enough for me to eat in. I managed to get the children breakfast, lunch and dinner, though, and I ate some dinner with my back to the house. Also managed a couple of loads of laundry.

It's the mess, it just stops me before I even get started, I can't cope at all. And the slight virus on top of that - is this related to previous post-viral fatigue? - seems to be wiping me out.

Astrid's nose is incredibly productive.

Today's achievements

Got up and made the bed
Got the children breakfast
Cleaned the children up
Got them dressed
Had a shower (with Astrid in the bathroom in the highchair)
Got myself dressed
Did a couple of loads of laundry
Picked up a bit of the front room - including discovering more food waste
Fed the children lunch
Had a visitor; picked up more of the front room
Put Astrid down for a nap - I woke two hours later, she woke another 90 minutes after that. D'you reckon we might be ill? I have no cold symptoms to speak of but she has a runny nose.
Cooked dinner and ate it with all three children
Rob came home and we got the children to bed with no fighting
Hung a load of laundry to dry

I have a raging pounding headache. Grr.