I gave Chris the morning off kids to get some work done, and right now Valentine is supposed to be napping. But he isn’t. He is rubbing banana onto my bed sheets while I say, repeatedly, ‘Mummy needs FIVE MINUTES.’ He is not giving me those five minutes.

I’m defrosting some ready-made pesto chicken thing for dinner, and I had two packets of crisps with my lunch. It’s 3 p.m. and Chris just walked in and gave me a margarita. What a guy!

Things I want to get better at during this time:

1. Calling family
2. Calling friends
3. Making podcasts
4. Bonding with my children (I realise that should probably have gone higher up the list)
5. Eating vegetables
6. Exercising
7. Not having meltdowns

But one day at a time.

Talking of days, what day even is it? I literally have no idea. Not that it matters.

OK, I’m going to go and turn the TV up for ten minutes, so that my kids can’t hear me scream into a pillow. I hope your days went OK?

WHAT IS HAPPENING.

Love Dawn x

20 March

Isolation Update – My kid is green

OK, well today was marginally better. I put this down to me completely abandoning any sense of self and committing fully to the children’s happiness and housework. Turns out, when not trying to do anything else, one can mother better.

This simply cannot go on.

I need to continue to work, when I can. But for today, I didn’t even try, and we all got through it.

We started the day with some rock painting. You get paint, you collect rocks, and then you paint them. You let the paint dry, stick some googly eyes onto the rocks and then do not wash either child until bedtime, no matter what colour 90 per cent of their faces are. (Art – green, Valentine – red and black).