I was off sick on Friday. I picked up a stinker of a cough from the gremlin (4th since Christmas…I KID YOU NOT) and woke up with my eyes glued shut. Bad times. I’d worked on the Thursday and was whacked, so a night of coughing led me to cave.
Whilst being off I got thinking on my rules of sick days. And here they are:
- Get your body to pick a day when your child is at nursery. For me, Wednesday is a no goer. (Hats off to the SAHMs; no clue how you manage!)
- Never look in a mirror. Ever. I’m pale and ginger on a normal morning. Try the talcum powder look; ginger exploding frizz and a bloodshot gunky left eye. Best not examine the damage.
- This is linked but don’t answer your Facetime to your Mothers who wants to “have a look at you”. “Mum, I look like the dog’s dinner. I don’t want you to look at me. I’ll point the phone at the wall.”
- Take off your Fitbit to avoid the guilt/shame when you haven’t even done 1000 steps all day. Best to just remove the pressurising article; after all it’s not a normal day eh?
- Don’t watch Jeremy Kyle. I’m ashamed to say I quite liked this when younger. Now. Hmm not so much!
- Getting dressed is optional. To be fair I find a shower helps refresh me when I’m ill but the earliest shower time is midday. Stick to the rules my dears!!
- You get your 8 glasses of fluid from tea. I’m alone, it’s actually hot…
- Read. I never read! Getting in bed and reading is a must…though a nap maybe more tempting?
- Eat well if you can. I often fancy crap and do indulge but try and get the fruit and veggies in some how. I don’t want this cold forever!
- Watch a film on Netflix that your other half would never agree too. Today’s choice was about a choir. I wasn’t too sure but it passed the time (I was tempted by Spice Girls The Movie but realised even I wasn’t that ill!!)
So there you have it. If you are kind of lucky like me and you sick day falls on a nursery day, what are your rules to look after yourself?
Hope everyone is on the mend who is reading this!
Haha! I can’t watch JK any more either…weird hey? Good rules, especially the tea and not being ill when child is home. I have a slightly hot child sat next to me claiming to be too ill for school yet happily scoffing a bowl of Cheerios despite sore throat. Hmmmm. #twinklytuesday
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I know…drives me crazy!! Hmmm are you sending him in? lol x
Ha ha, Fitbit guilt gets me all the time if I’m ill or try to have a day of rest! Hope you’re better now x # TwinklyTuesday
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Thanks Kerry!! x
Hot tea with a little honey to help a sore throat, sofa nest for me is a must and sometimes I’ll happilly (whilst spluttering) use all the hot water in the whole tank by having two baths. I say it’s because the steam helps me to breathe but…I think after being sick for the last three weeks with a coughing virus the hardest thing has been getting my daughter to and from school. I just don’t want to move! But the hours of peace in between have been quite delightful! #twinklytuesday
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Aww lovely tips. That bug sounds awful. I have been a week coughing and think it’s on it’s way out now. Get well x
Great tips for sick days! I hate FaceTime at their best of times do when ill it’s a defo no go!! #twinklytuesday xx
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Haha for sure! x
What great tips for when you are feeling like poo! I absolutely hate being ill when you have a little one. I can remember when Amelia was tiny I had food poisoning…Oh my that was a hard couple of days!!!! lol. Tea solves everything I say, definitely take advantage of a hot cup of tea. #TwinklyTuesdays
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It is the hardest thing eh. Food poisoning must have been a killer!! Lots of tea x
Eurgh, I was feeling really run down and poorly on the weekend and went back to bed twice, which was great in itself, but then I made the mistake of looking at my fitbit step count for the day – I don’t know why I did it! I’ll remember to just take it off next time I’m ill! x #TwinklyTuesday
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Haha those Fitbits must come off when ill. Hope you better now! x
Ah I have to admit I kind of miss sick days….as though you feel shit you do at least get to indulge a bit. For me it used to be about Disney films or box set greys anatomy while snug in a duvet… Eating so and sarnies. Doesn’t really happen now as a SAHM though… I kind of just have to drag myself around or hope the kids fancy some Disney watching haha hope you feel better though hon! Xxx
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I sooo admire you hun. Must be so hard now when you are really bad. Thanks lots x
I never have sick days. I think I realised a long time ago that once you have two children there isn’t really a good day to be sick. Touch wood I don’t actually get sick very often anyway fortunately – I swear by Vics First Defence nasal spray 🙂 If I was to get sick though I would definitely take your advice!
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You are a trooper Sam. I need to get that Vics first defence!! Heard good things about it! x
I dread sick days – because I’m self employed any day lost to illness means double the work so I usually just power through unless I physically can’t. A few weeks ago I was ill for three days and it literally took me three weeks to catch up! #twinklytuesday
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That must be so hard to work through! Bless x
Love this. I like to hope that I will get ill when Sam is at nursery too…very rarely happens! Hope you’re feeling better #twinklytuesday xx
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Thanks lovely. It’s so much better on a nursery day x
Oh babe, hope you’re better now?! Luckily I don’t get ill that often and neither does Seb. The last time I was ill was a nasty chest infection a couple of years ago. I was so ill I was crying for my mum! I was living on my own with Seb and all I wanted was someone to look after me and make chicken soup.! xx
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Yes just about! I hoping as the gremlin gets older I will get less sick! It is so sucky. I bet when you were ill alone you were crying.So hard!! x
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Those cakes don’t make themselves I guess! Aww sometimes you do need to rest. The Fitbit never lies (wish it would!!) x
Air Crash Investigations. Just watch it all day. And never go near Jeremy Kyle. I used to watch it but these days I feel it’s rather like bear bating. #truthabout
Totally agree with you about being sick on a nursery day! My mummy always schedules her colds for Friday’s! 😉 this post made us chuckle! My mummy is a natural ginger but has her hair dyed black so always looks like a ghost!!! #TwinklyTuesday x
Ha it is much better being ill on a nursery day – no one else to look after but yourself, and you’re in complete control of what trash you watch on tv, instead of having to endure hours of peppa pig! Scrap the healthy food though, my sick day diet consists solely of toast and chocolate (if I’m not too sick to eat!) #twinklytuesday
So sorry to read you’ve been poorly 🙁 I was in exactly the same position last Thursday and Friday and felt absolutely awful. I definitely did one or two of these, but I had the little lady who was off sick too so it wasnt the most restful sick day I’ve ever had! Hope youre feeling better now. Emily x #TwinklyTuesday
So many bugs around at the moment, I love your remedies! #TwinklyTuesday
Great tips! When I’m ill the kids are so well behaved and try to look after me! #bestandworst
So Sorry you have been ill Sarah. Not nice, and yes as mummys the more we push through the greater chance we end up just completely wiped out 🙁 I am a SAHM and its blooming hard having sick days – early pregnancy days were several movie days haha
I’ve seen the choir film on Netflix too haha it was pretty good!! I love watching random films on there when I am on my own. x #bestandworst
Haha I especially love the bit about being ginger, as am I. SOOOO true! #bestandworst
Oh I am sorry to hear you have been ill this week and I will join your club as I have been ill too 🙁 I would say retreat to bed and SLEEP is key whilst watching Netflix 🙂 #bestandworst
Excellent rules, there is something nice about curling up and watching a film when ill x
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It is quite nice despite the ill bit x
Sorry to hear you’ve been poorly but I did love this post! I work from home now and again and I have to say, despite once declaring to hate it, I’ve become quite the fan of Jeremy Kyle. If nothing else, it makes me feel better about myself! Hope you’re feeling better soon – and Spice Girls: The Movie is BRILLIANT!! #abitofeverything
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Thanks Rach. Haha that’s a good point about JK. I may end up watching the Spice Girls…alone 🙂 x
I keep getting ill this year, as soon as I get rid of something I have something else a few days later, getting fed up with it now
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I am exactly the same. It sucks!!! x
Ooh this actually sounds rather nice – just a shame you felt crap! I also used to like Jeremy Kyle – now it just makes me shout at the TV! Would love to watch a film of my choosing…I’ll need to wait until nursery starts for us though 🙂 #bestandworst
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Aww you can rest when those nursery days come x
I’m currently a full-time SAHM while on maternity leave, so I don’t get any sick days – even though I really, really could have used one last week when I had a horrible chest cold. All I wanted to do was curl up in my bed with a book, but the baby wanted to run around – so that’s what we did. She’s the boss! #bestandworst
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I bet you did. I so admire SAHMs x
Great tips for sick days although as a SAHM I have been sick now for 12 long days (laryngitis and a chest infection) and it hasn’t been a barrel of laughs to say the least!! Plus I can’t even wallow in my sickness and watch Jeremy Kyle because the kids insist on watching Cbeebies day and night and don’t understand just how much Mummy likes to watch DNA tests and toothless hillbillies!!! Get well soon! #bestandworst
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oooh no that is awful. Being a SAHM must be so hard when you are ill!! CBeebies is probably better hun x
Oh no – I hope you’re feeling better now? I quite like Jeremy Kyle, but ONLY the DNA test results shows 🙂
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Thanks hun! Yes those are ok. My Mum loves the thieving lie ones x
You had a hot cup of tea!!!!! surely its worth it then:)) seriously though, hope you’re on the mend x
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It may have been! Thanks lots almost x
I’ve never sat though an entire episode of JK, but love watching the one where they buy the houses at auction and do them up when I’m poorly. Hope you feel better soon 🙂
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You haven’t missed much! They have got worse x
Love a sick day…other than actually being sick obviously. Although my sick days tend to be on weekends, or bank holidays. Hubby has taken little man before though when I couldn’t get out of bed so that was quite nice #bestandworst
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Aww hubby sounds good 🙂 x
Definitely agree with all of these. Movies and duvets are what get you through a sick day. If you can coincide sickness with childcare you’re winning! I tend to have a snotty offspring climbing on my head whenever I’m ill. Bleughh!
Hope you’re feeling better xx
Thank you for hosting #bestandworst
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oh nooo yes that is tough! Thanks I’m getting there x
I usually fall ill on school days and I am a SAHM so it’s awkward! Luckily I do have people to take the girls to school if I am unwell (not always though).
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Awkward! That’s good to sometimes have the help! x
haha sick day on a nursery day! Sounds like bliss…(if you weren’t ill!) Oooh and a hot cup of tea, not had one of those in a while, hope you feel better soon x #bestandworst
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Ooh you need a cuppa x
Oh no, but somehow these rules do also make it sound quite nice too! You’re very sweet to note the horror that is sickness as a stay at home mother. I imagine you’ve experienced this as sadly illnesses don’t always do what we tell them , do they! I’ve been feeling ill for a while now and we are pretty knowledgeable about disney films now! Totally agree about a shower…mine was at half twelve today so I didn’t break any rules!! Thanks for hosting #bestandworst
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Aww hope you get well soon. Disney is learning I’m sure x
Hope you feel better soon. Totally agree that it is essential to be ill on a nursery day! Enjoy your Netflix and I am sure Fitbit doesn’t count if you are ill. xxx #twinklytuesday
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Thanks Yvonne! I’m getting there x
Sadly as a SAHM my sick days just look like normal days just more exhausting haha! I would totally take the excuse to put my feet up for the day if my daughter wasn’t around though! #BestandWorst
Back again from #bestandworst – I’ve now come down with a cold which is worst luck!
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Oh balls get well! x
This happened to me once! A long time ago… Is it weird to have illness envy? Sounds quite appealing! Nowadays my ill days involve massively sucking it up and a LOT of self pity 😉
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Aww it’s so hard for you when you have the kids to look after x
That sounds like a good set of rules to me!! I used to be a shameful fan of Jeremy Kyle too, but I’ve never watched it since I had the babies (because of the tv being taken over by Nick Jr, not a conscious decision!!) I’ll have to give it a go now to see how I feel about it! I am a SAHM, but my mum is usually pretty good when I’m ill, and will come and help. But she likes me to be ‘around,’ so won’t let me be ignored in bed all day! Last year I had tonsillitis (pus covered throat, tree trunk neck, the whole works!) and my mum was injured and couldn’t help out. I sat in a park with the children, and cried because I felt so ill. REALLY bad times!! But both children are going to nursery 2 days a week in September, so your rules are just going to be my standard day I think, when I finally get a couple of days to myself!!!!!
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It’s very true! Great you have your Mum to help you. I bet when you were ill last time that sucked. Poor you. I would definitely make them your standard day. Heaven x
Great rules Sarah tea and jk that sounds like a plan haha thanks for hosting best&worst
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Haha saddo 🙂 x
Oh no, hope you’re much better now! Love the tips 🙂 #bestandworst
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Getting there thanks x
It is bad, but I would love a sick day. A ‘Henry’s at nursery’ sick day just after the weekly shop has arrived. Duvet – check. Netflix movie – check. A bar of chocolate to dip into a hot chocolate – check. And as much nap time as humanly possible.
But lets be honest, i’d only just clean, do washing and wish I was at work relaxing.
Renee @peonieandme #bestandworst x
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Aww bless you!! You need that break sometimes lovely x
Hope you’re feeling better now! I love it, make sure its a nursery day (I wish!!), and watch movies hubby wouldn’t like 🙂 Thanks for hosting #bestandworst
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Thanks. I am! xx
Oh mine are all about napping of possible, lying in bed and watching rubbish TV!! Being ill sucks! #bestandworst
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It really does but the TV is nice x
Ah yes, the mirror is my worst enemy too when I’m sick…ugh, just don’t even bother and move on to the couch:) #bestandworst
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Best plan lovely! x
Oh you poor thing – 4 times in two months?! Great advice though…gotta admit, I was briefly tempted by the Spice Girls movie too on Netflix, until I came to my senses…#TwinklyTuesday
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Terrible eh? Haha I may watch SpiceWorld…on my own hehe x
Ha ha love these tips! Hope you’re feeling all better now x #bestandworst
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Thanks Laura x
Hahaha! I NEVER look in the mirror any more – by far the best way! Thanks for hosting this lovely. I am sure Kate Middleton has some down days too! x #bestandworst
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Tehe best way lovely x
Great sick day rules! I’ve been fending off a cold for over a week now and I must admit a little part of me has been hoping to have a sick day so I can watch a film on my on off Netflix and read a bit more! My cold hasn’t reached the point where I’ve been able to take any time off though… is it wrong that I’m a little disappointed by that?! 😉
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Boo hope you get well. I know what you mean: you need to be sick enough!! x
I’d do anything to have a day like this, minus the gunky eye and cough! I’m so completely exhausted that endless tea, bed, books and a crap movie sounds amazing! Seriously though, hope you’re feeling better xx #BestAndWorst
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I so bet you would hun!! Must be exhausting. Bless. Won’t be longs x
Ugh I hate being ill, but weirdly, it can feel like a bit of a day off (provided the kids are elsewhere, obvs) and it is nice to not be able to do everything else. But I draw the line at Jeremy Kyle – I’m more of a Homes Under the Hammer girl myself. Hope you’re feeling better now xx
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Snap hun! The kids do have to be elsewhere. I just love my Netflix x
This would be the dream but I have little one here ALL THE TIME 🙁
Feeling sorry for myself is not on the agenda whatever the circumstances, although I look forward to the day it makes its comeback more than I like to admit 🙂 xx