or anemia to you lot! It's one thing to get checked, and probably thyroid too since it often seems to cause problems. If you've been that exhausted for a long time you need to get it checked, if only for your peace of mind. If not tomorrow then make an appointment today for next week. Don't let it slide or wait till you have time. MAKE TIME Jana... please...

well it's (almost certainly) not measles but we don't know what it is - isn't that comforting! Probably some kind of viral thing he reckons. I'm going to keep DS off school as well since it's only a day and a half before they break up for half term. No point putting the other kids at risk for that period of time, since we don't yet know if DD is infectious.

I read some Sarah ban Breathnach yesterday about 'spiritual housekeeping' and it got me all fired up to purge everything. But that was at about 11pm and I had a headache so I had to force myself to ignore the crap and get to sleep. I'm going to read it again this afternoon and see if it will get me motivated. I realised that not one space of my home is currently clutter-free, which is very stressful really. Even my bed had things on it the last few nights, so I cleared those off last night and slept right through. I don't have a singe space where I can rest and be fully relaxed because there is mess everywhere. Anybody else in this position??

I'm with Zillah - who stole the first half of the week!?! I can't believe we're halfway through Thursday already (and my brain thinks it's Friday, which doesn't help). Has anybody managed to get into their bathroom and clear something out?? Has anybody done a full purge?? Good for you if you have. If you haven't look around the next time you go in there to pee, see what you can get rid of or put into the same bottle, or use up tonight with a warm bath and pampering.

I had an idea about getting DS more involved with his Chinese last night, which is to see if I can find any colouring for the story of the Chinese zodiac or any other legends, see if I can find the legends out in English too, then have DD read the Chinese to him. He even grizzled when I put on a CD of Chinese fable-type things yesterday, so we've got our work cut out for us.

see what you can do to feel a sense of achievement today - then report back to help the rest of us get motivated.

Kerri.