9th March 2021

• 5am Dylan wakes up. I persuade him to go back to sleep

• 6am Dylan goes on about getting up. He watches videos on my phone while I lay down a little bit. My sinuses are really getting me down now, it's the same problems every night where my nose is really uncomfortable and it makes me fidgety.

• 6.20 we get up and come downstairs to watch TV as Dylan left our switch in the bedroom before we went to bed last night and was upset that it was still in there.

• 6.45 I go grab some cereal.

• 7.15 I grab Dylan's clothes, put the bed away in the spare room and go grab my clothes from the bedroom and grab the switch while I'm at it. Gareth wakes up panicked, asks me what time it is and once I tell him he rolls back over and I come downstairs to get Dylan dressed. I get him dressed with no fuss as he wants the switch - our mail is due on animal crossing and he has a mario outfit and I have a princess peach one for the upcoming mario day tomorrow.

• 7.30 Dylan continues to watch Jaiden animation, he grabs some choc hoop cereal in a snack pot and eats that. I grab my heart meds

• 7.45 Try to usher Dylan out the door. He takes his precious time and we have a few hiccups along the way, and I realise I forgot a card I need to post to my Mother In Law... But I do remember the most important thing for the school run - wellies for Forest School! When we get there, he then decides he wants to go to the play equipment and licks it. Ugh. I persuade him to go in as one of his classmates turn up too.

• 8am avoid all the mask less teens walking to school in groups.

• As soon as I get through the door, I grab the return I need to make and head out the back door to the car. Gareth is up. This is my new to me car I got just before Christmas after my beloved red citroen broke down on the drive way and had to go.

• Get to sainsburys. Realise I forgot the card again. Make the return and then grab some more McCains fries (we are all out), some bagels, cream cheese and some English muffins.

• Pay and head home.

• Get home, wash hands and put stuff away. Grab laundry, put some on - the sun is out and it's due to rain for a bunch of days straight from tomorrow, so best time to do it so I can get it out on the line for the first time this year.

put the card on my shoes next to the front door so I don't forget, move some other bits around, put some washing up in to soak, pay water bill and check on my designer stats before I download my 5 downloads for the day.

• 9.40 I begin getting the recycling and bins emptied - I started yesterday so I didn't have so much to do today.

• I tidy up the bottom of the stairs and put some of the hats and gloves away (I keep out 1 pair of ear muffs). Once that is done, I go upstairs to the bedroom and sort the laundry out.

Feeling peckish so I toast a bagel

• 10.49 sit down to watch s4e5 the crown while eating the bagel

I end up grabbing a few more bits and have an early lunch

• 11.20 washing machine beeps so I head out and put the laundry on the line and get rid of the plastic pegs which break in my hands. I head back to continue the episode. It's mostly masks that needed washing plus some uniform.

• 12.25 I work on a little more tidying between another episode. I'm not feeling too great so doing things in short bursts.

• 1.15 third episode starts, I have taken paracetamol and measured up for the envelope cushion covers but sadly I do not have enough fabric left.

I again do random little jobs between having a sit down and I check eBay for some fabric. My sewing clips arrive which will help me make a few more masks for the school run (they are going to review Dylan attending Breakfast club and leaving school early in a month)

• 2.30 the alarm goes off, I grab the card that needed posting and Dylan's scooter and walk to school. I spend a lot of my time fogged up. This is one of the face masks I made with my vintage sewing machine. I definitely need more practise!

The classroom is empty (forest school). I see the caretaker who I haven't seen in a while, and Dylan is supposed to come out at 2.45. I stand in the playground and wait as all the other parents come in - a few from the other year groups ignore social distancing and stand next to me and they aren't wearing a mask.

• 3.03 Dylan comes out of school, I'm relieved and he loves Forest school anyway so I make a mental note not to come and pick him up at 2.45 on a Tuesday! I will pick him up the usual time of 3.10.

• Dylan is hungry and had a bagel and cream cheese and a blue raspberry slushie.

• We just chill out together, Dylan swaps from Jaiden Animation videos and playing on the switch.

• 5.30 Gareth finishes work and comes downstairs - he cooks himself a pizza and Dylan wants Bolognese so I cook that for us both.

• 6 once he had finished his pizza Gareth goes back upstairs to play some games with his friends. Dylan continues watching Jaiden Animation and I watch the Harry and Meghan interview while eating.

• 6.45 Dylan ends up not eating much and wants a bath.

• 7.30 I go and sit in his bedroom with him and read some of his World Book Day book as he is told he needs to go to bed.

• 8pm Hubs has finished playing a quick couple of games and just wants to chill out watching Scrubs in bed with me while he plays a game on his phone.

• 9pm after about 3 episodes I'm feeling tired, kiss hubs good night, pop my head in to see monkey actually fast asleep! HURRAH! and I head to the spare room (my sinuses get worse at night and I've been having earache on and off throughout the day)

• 2.15am Dylan wakes up and comes in with me.