Hmm, what else? All in all, it’s taken A LOT of mental effort to get my kids to the point where they can get home and I can just say ‘chores are in the app’ and they do them, but OMG is it worth it at this end. Most adults are astonished when I tell […]
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PS (which in this case is a PRE-script, not a post one) – the whole ‘subscribe’ thing in the footer seems to be misbehaving. I’ll work on that. In the meantime, if you’re super keen not to miss my extremely sporadic posting, you can visit this post on the website and in the sidebar (desktop)
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This is a generalised response to a specific question I was asked yesterday, namely, “How do I get my kids to do chores without all of us but especially me having a breakdown?” My response ran long (we are shocked) so I figured I’d share publicly in case it’s useful for anyone else – except
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The last month has been even more fatigue-y than usual, and it was very challenging yesterday to realise that a bunch of things that would usually be super easy for me – in this case, helping the 13-yr-old with homework and literally just finalising a menu and turning it into a grocery list for an
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Intro post #1 here. Okay, so you’re keeping dedicated notes and you’ve kind of figured out that there are three basic flavours of Being Stuck In Bed that have nothing to do with lazy or sick: fatigue, mental health, or neurodivergent symptoms (including for people who aren’t typically neurodivergent). Today we’re going to tackle the
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Doing my weekly journalling and I’m starting May this week. Loving this quote from Hilary Collier Rushford: As a stylist, I teach about the chicness of breathing room. A collar left open, a cuff rolled up. We see it in a home that isn’t overly crowded with stuff, has room to easily relax on the
May Is The Month Of… Read More »
So I made a commitment to keep blogging the other month, and then my website promptly died on me >.< Usually when it does, it either revives within about half an hour, or else it’s something I can poke around and fix. This time, it was neither. Boo. So it took a few weeks for
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Just some random musings on the state of my life this evening, journal style, because yes, I’m writing this in the evening even though it’ll show up first thing in the morning – not that that matters, because by the time you read it, it could be morning, it could be evening, it could be
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A Friday Favs with pictures this time! How glorious. What a thing – wait for it – to be grateful for. *grin* I was going to do this like picture – sentence – picture – sentence etc but I decided that would make the post unwieldy, so I’ve just popped the pictures in and captioned
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This one hit me hard at some point last year, right in the middle of trying to heal from burnout, trying to slow my life down so it doesn’t always feel like a breathless, frantic, slightly panicked rush. Therapy is great. Journalling (to my eternal irritation) works amazingly. Learning growth mindsets and cognitive behavioural therapy
