Getting back to "normal"
I got woken up yesterday morning by DH saying he didnt think he could go into work cos he was so stressed! Now on the face of it you think no big deal - let him have a duvet day? But he's done this before, got himself all wound up and one day turns to two and then a week and a month, and before you know it he's been off sick for 3 months and his pay stops!
And all because he's had a week off after his snip and fallen out with his mum... so he's all teary and 'I can't do it anymore' and I know I sound hard and unsympathetic, but I cant take another bout of his faux-depression, so I put him in the shower, and drove him to work myself!
He's just rung to say that his absence has been picked up as a concern (and if I was managing him it would have been picked up 6 months ago) and he's got to have a meeting about it, where they'll tell him he can only have a certain amount of sickness before being subjected to a *potential* disciplinary process.... so will this keep him at work or stress him out more, who knows!
To top it off yesterday I got a text from MIL, saying she was sorry she overeacted and could we be friends, so I took it at face value and called in for a cup of tea on my way back home. I might as well have stuck pins in my eyes for how welcome she made me feel!!!
Eloise has been full of cold and grumpy cos she's starving all the time and not sleeping through anymore, so I started weaning her today. Archie is still up two or three times in the night crying, so between, MIL, DH and the LO's I'm tired, and I'm stressed, but I still have to carry on!
Anyway today MIL seems to be a bit more "normal" if she can be, DH went to work without complaint (and seemed a bit embarrassed by the whole thing) and I got loads done today. Back on the up? I hope so!
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